Sentences with phrase «developing legal approaches»

The firm understands the potential impacts, costs, and risks associated with class actions, and is a leader in developing legal approaches and strategies for handling class action litigation.

When defending against a mass tort action, our firm focuses on developing legal approaches that produce optimal results for our clients, while minimizing the high costs and damages often associated with these difficult and complex claims.

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This course provides a foundation for developing your own approach to skillfully managing employees by illustrating alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies, introducing the importance of the legal context, and thinking about what motivates employees.

they organize hierarchies, the ways they approach community, scripture and tradition, and how they develop legal systems.

We have a highly developed apparatus for thinking about and dealing with the individual and the State, but we lack adequate concepts and even words for a legal - political approach to those intermediate institutions within which the personalities of men, women, and children are formed, and upon which human beings depend for support and self - realization.

Following legal action, other similar consortia have developed, allowing charters to become their own LEAs in D.C., Colorado and New Orleans, for example, so they can approach the economies of scale that large districts have.

School districts across the United States are honing their approaches to help newcomer students meet the challenges they face - from developing processes to identify students» academic and socioemotional needs, to connecting them with mental - health and legal supports, and tailoring curricular pathways in ways that balance student needs with policy constraints.

The complexities of race — in both its social construction and its legal codification — mandated the use of a multifaceted approach to developing common understanding and generating responsive policies and programs.

Their unique approach helps educators comply with new legal requirements, create meaningful change in the behavior of at - risk students, and ultimately develop more productive

The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical knowledge on resource economy, policy, legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.

In fact Mane6 was even approached by the head of the art team of the TV series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, not to stop the team from developing the game, but offered help to design the characters that will be a legal iterations of Hasbro's magical ponies.

However, in choosing this approach, those developing the project must take on the legal and financial complexities of forming a business and complying with related regulations (as discussed below).

ACC believes that many traditional law firm business models and many of the approaches to lawyer training and cost management are not aligned with what corporate clients want and need: value - driven, high - quality legal services that deliver solutions for a reasonable cost and develop lawyers as counselors (not just content - providers), advocates (not just process - doers) and professional partners.

In fact, one of the over-arching themes of that report is the need for all lawyers to both develop and use creative approaches to adapt to the demands of the future of legal practice.

Christina Blacklaws, vice president of the Law Society of England and Wales, said: «As new technologies continue to be developed, they are changing the way solicitors and their clients approach legal issues.

That leaves private investment vehicles and, honestly, legal and professional publishing just isn't sexy — especially not so at the moment — so it'd have to be an investor with a raft of ideas to develop the business rather than the standard «let's buy the company and count the money» approach... and those investors are rarer than a needle in a haystack these days.

The Third Circuit in In re Bevill Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp., developed a five - part test (the Bevill test) to examine the merits of such an assertion by an individual employee against company counsel.50 Under this test, employees must show that (1) they approached corporate counsel for the purpose of seeking legal advice; (2) they made it clear that they were seeking advice in their individual capacity; (3) counsel sought to communicate with the employee in this individual capacity, mindful of the conflicts with its representation of the company; (4) the communications were confidential; and (5) the communications did not concern the employee's official duties or the general affairs of the company.51 The Bevill test has been recognised by other jurisdictions as a means of assessing whether a company employee may assert attorney — client privilege in an individual capacity arising out of communications with corporate counsel.52 (See also Chapter 13 on employee rights.)

Matt Meaker has practiced law for over 10 years and has developed a business - minded approach to legal issues.

I have developed a well - deserved reputation in the Ontario legal community for my good judgment and practical, fair approach to conflict resolution.

Two popular approaches — lean manufacturing, based on the Toyota production system, and Six Sigma, developed by Motorola and made famous by General Electric — can be easily applied to legal work, through identifying opportunities for outsourcing, for example, and employing technology to automate routine tasks and thereby help to reduce costs.

At Haddad Law Firm, we take pride in developing an approach that makes sense for your specific legal issue.

It has never been more important for law firms and in house corporate legal departments to develop a structured, systematic approach to knowledge management.

Our focus is to develop realistic, proactive approaches that limit our clients» legal exposure, and meet their business and operational objectives.

Since their inception, they have developed an innovative approach to delivering legal services as a result of continuing investment in technology.

«No one person has all the skills,» he says, to develop the «systematic approach to legal quality and legal spend management» required of effective legal operations.

He recruits partners and teams into firms across Australia and internationally, priding himself on his truly consultative approach and the close personal relationships he has developed within the legal community over many years.

The hallmark of Mr. Lang's legal style is an aggressive, result - oriented approach, executed with a strategic vision and tactical savvy developed through decades as lead counsel in trials and arbitrations.

Some of our colleagues at UNLV have conceptualized the evolution of legal writing scholarship as a series of leaps.2 The first big leap was to take an interdisciplinary approach to writing about teaching writing.3 The second leap was to build community by creating spaces of our own, such as LWI, the Journal, and then later, JAWLD.4 The third leap was to develop a rich, often interdisciplinary approach to studying and writing about legal writing.5 In their article, Linda Berger, Linda Edwards, and Terry Pollman suggested — hoped, perhaps, and I along with them — that scholarship relating to legal analysis, skills and practice is no longer considered inferior to traditional legal scholarship.6 The growing number of schools where legal writing faculty have achieved equal status due at least in part to their legal writing scholarship suggests we have made significant progress as a result of these leaps.7

Develop strategy for a programmatic approach to legal project management, pricing, and related initiatives

We've developed an iterative approach to document review where the legal team can assess and implement search strategies while considering the substance and legal relevance of each search result,» Chan - Glasgow adds.

This approach is reflected in the UTBMS Codes for Merger and Acquisition Transactions that were developed by the Task Force on Legal Project Management in the Business Law Section of the ABA.

-LSB-[123]-RSB- R.W. van Kralingen, P.R.S. Visser, T.J.M. Bench - Capon and J.H.J. van Den Herik, A principled approach to developing legal knowledge systems, International Journal of Human - Computer Studies 51: (6)-LRB-(1999)-RRB-, 1127 — 1154.

Combining her insights from working with in - house legal counsel together with her thorough understanding of law firm economics and change management she has developed a holistic approach to assisting firms to maximize profitability.

Most views of the legal industry, particularly those posed by insiders, naturally adopt an inside - out approach, or, in other words, an approach that assumes the industry will have a say in how the future develops because we can see it coming.

CosmoLex is proud and honored to work with the educational institutions and nonprofits on programs to develop new, innovative approaches to providing legal services that meet the evolving needs of a society that increasingly needs more and more legal services, in shorter timeframes, and at lower costs.

The necessity of developing new and innovative approaches to managing legal departments to keep litigation costs low.

Similarly, the courts have developed an approach to understanding the ownership of resources on aboriginal title land that is deeply rooted in equity's approach to separating the «legal» ownership of land from the «beneficial» or «equitable» title to the same resources.

By bringing together its members nationally at its annual meeting and through its state and regional chapters, ACC (as it's now known) has built an in - house «bar» that shares insights, pushes for changes necessary to or desired by those members and develops a professional approach to the management of legal service required by its members» companies.

One resource developed by the partners was a Legal Research Performance Support Centre («the website») that describes a step by step approach to conducting legal reseLegal Research Performance Support Centre («the website») that describes a step by step approach to conducting legal reselegal research.

We will work together to envision equal justice and develop practical strategies, skills and tools for building a more just society through enhanced and effective approaches for resolving legal problems.

In the event that online access is near, one would hope that the Trustees of the McGill Law Journal and / or the legal publisher would take the same approach that Carswell did when it developed the Index to Canadian Legal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law Libralegal publisher would take the same approach that Carswell did when it developed the Index to Canadian Legal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law LibraLegal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.

We navigate clients through complex legal procedures and collaborate with them to develop approaches aimed at limiting exposure and containing the costs associated with complex litigation.

The problem is simply stated as follows: Develop a principled approach to reconcile traditional accounts of the rule of law with the modern reality that administrative agencies and statutory tribunals who do not operate like or resemble the ordinary courts but who nevertheless occupy a large amount of space in our legal system and can not avoid making legal determinations in exercising their statutory duties which often implicate individual rights and interests to a greater extent than judicial decisions.

With our unique legal perspective we work with clients to develop a strategic business - driven approach to data governance and management that recognises the need to cater for a wide range of legal, legislative and compliance requirements.

Our legal team thoroughly investigates all claims and legal disputes and works side by side with clients to develop strategies and approaches designed to best serve their legal, financial and business objectives.

Our legal team provides early evaluations and works with our clients to develop legal strategies and approaches that best meet their budgets and schedules.

With a collaborative approach, he assists his clients in resolving complex challenges by developing effective strategies to advance their legal interests.

Baker Donelson was one of the first law firms in the United States to develop its own unique approach to legal project management as well as Lean Six Sigma processes and tools and the alliance will make these solutions more readily available to a broader segment of the legal industry.

Currently he is engaged in the process of gaining clarity and developing a practical approach to how technologies like AI, might be implemented and bring actual value to the legal industry.

Each California environmental attorney at our firm approaches legal matters from a business perspective to develop strategies that are workable, cost - effective, and tailored to our clients» specific needs and demands.