Sentences with phrase «company departments operations»

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Improved internal communication — The ISO 9000 certification process's emphasis on self - analysis and operations management issues encourages various internal areas or departments of companies to interact with one another in hopes of gaining a more complete understanding of the needs and desires of their internal customers.

TORONTO — Best Buy Canada is laying off about 950 full - time employees as the company reworks its operations to reduce layers of management and combines some of its sales departments.

«In most small companies, sales, operations, shipping, and accounting departments are involved, but they seldom report to the same manager.»

J.C. Penney laid off about 360 people, the company said Friday, part of the department store's plan to trim costs and simplify operations as more people shop online and mall traffic drops.

Sherrill brings a financial background in operations to the creative department and has certainly helped build the company.»

A panel of state judges Thursday ruled in favor of the state in a lawsuit launched six years ago by the New York Insurance Association over fees paid by insurance companies that were created to support operation of what was then the state Insurance Department.

Interviewed in today's Financial Times, he said his department had examples of companies which have reduced investment or relocated operations because the cap stops them accessing key staff.

Where historical impacts exist as a result of its own or its predecessors» operations, the company works under the oversight of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to address those impacts.

The Penn team delved into whether ride - hailing sharing affected crash rates within individual cities by studying State Department of Transportation data from Las Vegas, Portland, Ore., Reno, Nev., and San Antonio — American cities in which Uber, the nation's largest ridesharing company, launched, ceased, then resumed operations.

In addition, the Department announced plans to issue a follow - on solicitation open to other companies and manufacturers, focused on furthering small modular reactor efficiency, operations and design.

Elsewhere in Washington, attorney Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright) is charged with the task of garnering information for the Justice Department regarding a merger between two giant oil companies that will open a huge operation in a country along the Persian Gulf.

If, at a later date, the company wishes to expand its operations beyond those limits, it would need to notify the Department and establish its fitness to do so.

Examples of such entities include state departments of transportation; local governments; transit agencies; special authorities; special districts; railroad companies; and private firms or consortia that may include companies specializing in engineering, construction, materials, and / or the operation of transportation facilities.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Lakeville, Minn. - based On Eagles Wings Charters, Inc., USDOT No. 1100785, to immediately cease all passenger transportation operations after finding that the company was endangering the traveling public by failing to ensure the safety of its vehicles and drivers.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Tenn. - licensed truck driver, Ricky L. Hatfield, and his Tazewell, Tenn. - based company, Hatfield Trucking, USDOT No. 2385057, to be imminent hazards to public safety and has ordered both the driver and the company to immediately cease operations.

This notice sets forth the procedure to seek an air taxi operator exemption to hold economic authority from the Department of Transportation for companies proposing to engage in certain air transportation operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Belle Glade, Florida - based Billy R. Evans Harvesting, Inc., USDOT No. 1310998, to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate operations after a federal investigation found the company to pose an imminent hazard to public safety.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Atlanta - based STSC Transportation Services, Inc., USDOT No. 2350604, to immediately cease all passenger transportation operations after finding that the company was endangering the traveling public by failing to ensure the safety of its vehicles and drivers.

While he still occasionally works hands - on with authors, Ross's main role within The Editorial Department is managing the company's day - to - day operations and helping our authors chart the most comfortable and efficient editorial course for their manuscripts.

The scam operation sends emails to student loan borrowers in which they claim to be the Student Loans Company, the UK Department of Education - owned student loan provider.

The corporate offices and manufacturing operation will remain at the company's original location 3250 Stone Myers Pkwy Grapevine, Texas, but warehousing, shipping and the staff for those departments will now be located at the new facilities located at 1065 Texan Trail Grapevine, Texas.

Implemented one year ago and developed by a multidisciplinary team, the company's preparation for the operation at the Rio 2016 Olympics included three company exercises and another two in partnership with the Civil Aviation Department at the airports in São Paulo (Congonhas and Guarulhos) and Rio de Janeiro (Santos Dumont and Galeão).

The company's current mining operations are in Alabama in the United States and its La Loma mine in Cesar Department in Colombia, serving customers in both the U.S. and Europe.

Jennifer works within Mattel's Corporate Responsibility Department, managing programs and initiatives focused on building sustainability across the company's brands, operations, and culture.

At Obelisk Support, we work more and more with legal operations departments in companies and recently attended a CLOC event in London.

Work closely with various functional departments to manage, maintain and update policies related to the company's business and worldwide operations.

Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) co-founders Connie Brenton and Stephanie Corey recently told Bloomberg BNA that these legal operations managers have been «gaining significantly more clout» inside corporate legal departments, including reporting directly to general counsels and earning senior management titles within their companies.

Our debt finance group is supported by members of other subgroups within the Business Department, including mergers and acquisitions (for all sizes of transactions, for public and private clients, and on both the buyer and seller sides), investment management (for clients with investment management divisions and matters), small business investment companies (for clients looking to form SBICs, obtain SBIC funding, or conduct portfolio financing transactions), securities (for public clients, particularly with respect to public and Rule 144A debt offerings), tax (including for cross-border transactions), ERISA / employee benefits and international (for clients with international operations and assets), as well as other practice groups within the Firm, including Cleantech & Renewables, Patent, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition practices and the Labor and Employment practice.

One legal department is looking to the future with plans for a law firm scorecard and an objective means of evaluating outside counsel, according to a legal operations manager at a biopharmaceutical company.

Legal operations is a position inside the majority of Fortune 500 companies, separate from in - house counsel, whose role is to ensure that the legal department functions more like a business.

I was reviewing the results of The Ninth Annual Law Department Operations Survey (Blickstein Group / Consilio), which found that 33 percent of responding companies added their first legal operations professional in 2008.

Croft, who joined Elevate as president yesterday (18 April), has launched the new operation in London, through which the company will target law firms and in - house legal departments across Europe.

But in many companies, the procurement department or the legal operations team require their outside counsel to participate in the RFP process.

These departments are well positioned to become more involved in the strategic direction the company is taking because they have a holistic view of their operations across the enterprise.

Legal operations professionals are often hired to solve one problem in a legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicing law.

Situation Mr. Anthony Pearl was appointed as General Counsel of The Cosmopolitan in November 2008, and knew from prior experience that the company would be able to achieve significant cost savings in the operation of its legal department if they deployed a robust technology system to assist with matter and spend management.

BENEFITS: • Improves control over law firm bill review process, including ability to identify trends and gain deeper visibility into law firm spending • Achieves 100 % paperless billing process with law firms, which supports corporate objective of environmental sustainability in business operations • Enables easy collaboration with colleagues inside the company, regardless of where they are located and whether they are travelling • Standardized coding and processing of law firm invoices produces tremendous efficiency gains for legal department • Robust reporting tools allow quick analysis of monthly legal budget across practice areas, easy tracking of matters and more precise assessment of spending by law firm

She discovered that the escalator was defective and inadequately maintained and pursued claims against the companies that manufactured and maintained the escalator as well as the department store owner whose employees inspected the operation of the escalator each day.

I spoke with Lauryn Haake, a managing director for HBR Consulting, a company focused on law firm and law department operations.

The department must embed itself into the company so that it can provide better business advice and genuinely be fully integrated into the business's operations.

• Is responsible for duties such as overseeing, managing, and identifying the legal issues in all departments and for the company's operations across numerous departments;

Yes, procurement helps the company with major purchases, but every department buys things so the law department should help all departments improve their operations.

In his current position, he leads the law, compliance, insurance, and government relations operation function for a global Fortune 30 company operating in 160 + countries with the core focus of work centered on aligning departments and operations with an effective business strategy in step with targeted business objectives and goals.

To date, the greatest advances in legal operations have occurred in legal departments, yet the same inventive methods and mindsets are cropping up in traditional law firms and sophisticated «New Law» companies funded by nonlawyer investors.

HOUSTON, April 2, 2013 — Datacert, Inc., the premier global provider of enterprise legal management solutions, today announced that AkzoNobel, a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has selected Passport ® Matter Management and Legal Spend Management to add more efficiency and accountability to its legal department operations.

Even as the role of legal operations departments are expanding, companies are increasingly looking for ways to cut their legal spend, and that means using metrics to measure what is efficient against what isn't and how well and how widely the current technology implemented is being used.

A US antitrust investigation was initially prompted by a whistleblower — a company that confessed its involvement in the alleged cartel involving marine hose to the US authorities — resulting in a combined operation by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (part of the Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General), the US Navy Criminal Investigative Service, the Antitrust Division of the DoJ, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

While she oversees the day - to - day operations and meets regularly with department heads to ensure that goals are being met, she actively participates in research and development where she works on the company products and decides on new milestones and direction for CyberActive.

Operation Avalanche was carried out by the FBI, Europol, Eurojust, the Public Prosecutor's Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police (Germany) together with the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice, and cyber security companies.

At the same time, the Company will promote the development of appealing titles in - step with market trends, through the development, marketing and operations departments working as one.