Sentences with phrase «corporate law so»

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As I remember it (and I don't practice a lot of corporate law so I'm going on memory here), companies can't, for example, authorize dividends when it would starve them of cash to pay their debts.

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He has suggested cutting the corporate tax rate from 33 percent to the E.U. average of 25 percent, for example, and wants to loosen national labor laws so companies can have more freedom to negotiate working hours and pay.

Incidentally, the «rule of law,» broadly understood, is what makes so called «say - on - pay» rules something less than a slam - dunk from a corporate governance point of view.

You can't have the kitchen stuff and party supplies together,» Fadel says, as though doing so would violate natural law, not just corporate policy.

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

(Which leads one to wonder why people like Lucian Bebchuk are so eager for federal regulation of corporate law, but that's an issue for another day.)

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

WE are the only living creations upon whom God's law imposes the obligation to meet the needs of men and women of the poor SO THAT they may come to the saving knowledge of God Jesus the Messiah.The biblical church is NOT a corporate legal fiction with limited liability.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

So my question is, are there conservatives or libertarians who agree with the assessment that limited liability laws amount to corporate welfare, and thus call for the abolition of limited liability?

An LLC in Delaware, a state where the laws provide so much anonymity to businesses» corporate founders that some tax experts compare it favorably to the Cayman Islands, played a role in the fundraising scandal involving NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's steering of contributions to help the Senate Democrats.

GE had net operating losses at the height of the financial crisis that federal law allows them — and every other corporate taxpayer — to carry over to subsequent tax years so as not to unfairly burden it with the calendar set by bureaucracy.

Since the ruling came down, those who support Paul Vallas, including the various corporate funded education reform groups in Connecticut have complained bitterly, calling for an appeal of the case or an effort to change the law so Vallas can stay on as Bridgeport's superintendent.

So long as education policy continues to be shaped by the interests of corporate profiteering and not the interests of our public school children, we will resist these unjust testing laws.

At this time, Libby is only available for public libraries, so you won't be able to use Libby with school, corporate, college, or law libraries.»

So instead of artists we might expect, like Ad Reinhardt or Bob Law, are the colourful woven silks of Anni Albers, Hannah Starkey's photos of women alone in corporate offices, pictures of performances from around the world, and much besides.

So we get to keep corporate money out of state politics (to a certain extent) for the next election cycle, but eventually the law will be invalidated.

So again, as I've said elsewhere, administrative law and Charter law, corporate law of various types, consumer protection, taxation, and challenging various powers such as permit boards and regulatory agencies... all that is deemed as a matter of course as something that no mere citizen could handle on their own.

As a UK top 200 corporate law firm, we are very much focused on giving our clients the highest standard of service, so we're incredibly pleased to welcome such a diverse group of talent to the firm.»

Called Nooked RSS Directory, they're missing a few categories (hint: law...), but they appear to treat corporate bloggers and mainstream media equally, so it's worth listing your firm's feed if you have one.

So throw away your TiVo, take up some new hobbies, get a pet — whatever it takes to make sure you're not the one who gets stuck watching a future Corporate Law in India episode about some heroic corporate associate who finds a key typo in a deal Corporate Law in India episode about some heroic corporate associate who finds a key typo in a deal corporate associate who finds a key typo in a deal document.

Unlike other corporate law firms, our business attorneys work on a contingency - fee basis, so we only receive a fee if we successfully obtain a recovery in your case.

We've been working with a range of clients, including regulators, law firm partners and corporate legal teams to help them understand: first, the predictive coding process as a whole from start to finish, and what that looks like for their particular matter; and second, some basic elements such as precision and recall, so they don't get bogged down in the nuts and bolts of the data science.

«The key is that partnerships can't raise the capital an ABS can, so forced short - term,» added Colin Cameron, a management consultant in Vancouver, though Jason Morris, counsel for Round Table Law, pointed out that the corporate model can also become mired in short - term concerns about share prices and quarterly profits.

«Cases took forever and you ended up sitting in court for hours and I wasn't happy in that field so went into corporate law and it's where I've been ever since,» he says.

Other interesting results from the survey indicated that 27 % of corporate law departments have also reduced their in - house lawyer staff so far in 2009, and another 9 % consider it «likely» or «possible» that they will do so in the remainder of the year.

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Finally, Cisco «got tired of high billable hour rates from so - called global law firms,» so it's selected a firm (which isn't a huge global firm, but open to new ideas) to help it address issues related to corporate secretarial matters.

But corporate legal departments are so understaffed these days they can't even hire reinforcements or outsource the work because they don't have the time to manage outside firms, reports The National Law Journal.

litigant retains not so much a particular attorney as the «firm» of NAACP and Defense Fund lawyers, which has a corporate reputation for expertness in presenting and arguing the difficult questions of law that frequently arise in civil rights litigation.

For example, changing the law on criminal corporate liability as happened when the offence of corporate manslaughter was created so that the need to prove a rotten apple in the boardroom or «a directing mind and will» was abolished in favour of liability arising from a collective failure.

The appeal division panel that awarded costs to DeMerchant and Sukonick found that the proceedings were not unwarranted at the beginning, but they became so after the law society failed to provide evidence to contradict testimony by an expert witness that held the two were following standard practice in the corporate bar.

Lawyers who practice in, and help cultivate Delaware's corporate - friendly environment have been very, very good for business in the state — so good in fact that federalizing corporate law, an idea currently under discussion, could put a third of the state's $ 3.3 billion in annual revenues at risk, according to Delaware Online.

More than any other honorary assembly that we know of, the Fastcase 50's reach across law for the poor, the middle class, and the corporate class; law for those with lawyers and without; and law for citizens and those who might become so.

So, if the law is struggling, we may need to rely on social media companies to have a strong enough sense of corporate and social responsibility to create a genuinely safe environment for children.

It would seem to be the law that if the corporate seal were impressed with a conscious — and ideally explicit — intention to seal the document by doing so, then that would constitute a seal.

It's very ad hoc right now, but the corporate and commercial law is so important to business, it needs to be more responsive,» she says.

The case study was obviously created by someone who does not know enough about wills law, but then it is easy to denigrate or even jettison a practice area one knows little about, does not practice in, derives no income from, and never receives the appreciative feedback from the individual, as opposed to corporate, clients who have been so well served at modest cost by the lawyers in that «expendable» area.

I find it very helpful when the law firm partners with your corporate responsibility goals — so when as part of being your partner they're aligned so, whatever charitable causes or whatever community outreach you'd like to do that fits within your core business principles that your law firm's right there with you.

Legal File's ability to integrate with so many programs, combined with its flexibility in use and non-technical user configuration make it an excellent choice for law firms, universities, insurance agencies, corporate legal departments and other settings.

An established litigator may be intellectually capable of learning corporate law but may not be interested in doing so.

Moving away from a corporate structure is very difficult for law firms because of the immediate tax liability that could be created upon liquidation of the corporation, so firms that are currently taxed as corporations would generally have a significant tax burden to move to a partnership tax structure.

There are days when not one of the colleagues you work with is in your local office, so I just felt it was time for law firms to do what global corporate organizations have been doing for a long time.

Since we are also corporate lawyers we are able to implement your reorganizations in house so that you don't have to involve multiple law firms.

So if, for example, you have an interest in international corporate law, media law and litigation, pick a handful of firms of varying sizes which specialise in each area — and focus all your research on them.

Contrary to the idea that the law is a single body, something immutable, Vanguard shows its evolving nature, doing so through the multitude of legal philosophies as spoken by corporate counsel based in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and surely more nations as the digital magazine gains scope and influence.

Corporate and government law offices may be accustomed to the compliance and reporting required by their parent organizations, however, they do not have control over the broad and sweeping changes so often associated with larger institutions today.