Sentences with phrase «face in the legal setting»

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Wheeler's decision also flies in the face of a legal precedent set by the Supreme Court in 2005, notes Downes.

In this guide, we will describe why setting an employee policy is imperative, the most common legal issues faced by companies utilizing social media and provide tips to help you avoid costly lawsuits.

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By Jan. 1, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state's emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.

The respective bills would mark an about - face from Congress» National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which set the legal limit to 21 in 1984 to decrease drunk driving.

«This is yet another area where the Court has misinterpreted the law, setting legal standards which fly in the face of the public» expectations.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would set aside $ 16.4 million to provide free legal services to undocumented New Yorkers facing deportation — but told the Observer that those convicted of violent felonies, forcible touching, illicitly dealing in prescription drugs and possibly other crimes, will not benefit from the program.

The city earlier this year said it was planning to set aside an additional $ 93 million over the next year to provide free legal access in Housing Court to tenants facing eviction.

Some of the most closely watched races were for seats on the school board in Douglas County, where the winners will decide whether to continue to defend a school voucher program set up by the district that has faced legal challenges.

It focuses on the extraordinarily broad and sophisticated set of legal challenges faced by contemporary post-secondary institutions and provides practical, concise, and accessible resources for professionals working in the higher - education arena.

Our integrated teams handle the most complex, precedent - setting legal matters that businesses face today — whether their legal implications end here in North America, or extend across jurisdictional borders.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first chair of the Commission, set the pace for the Commission to change the face of the legal profession by issuing a groundbreaking report in 1988 showing that women lawyers were not advancing at a satisfactory rate.

A problem faced by litigants acting without legal representation is to ensure that documents submitted to the court are concise and clearly set out your arguments in a way that the other party can understand and respond to.

I'd been a legal journalist and a legal recruiter in my previous lives — see below for more details — but I set up Motive to try to help answer what I saw as a number of profound questions facing the legal profession.

Given that rural areas face a shortage of lawyers, setting up apprentice programs in rural areas could be a good way to keep ambitious local students in the community and working on local legal needs.

Not unlike the law firm marketing challenges seen in small and medium sized markets, firms in large metro areas also face their own set of obstacles when trying to effectively advertise their legal services:

Vinter said multinational companies faced «a complex set of legal risks, including contractual enforceability, regulatory predictability and bribery and corruption in all its forms, none of which can be addressed without the rule of law».

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Clients in urban areas who can not connect to legal clinics because they lack transportation, have child care issues, face conflicting work schedules, etc., need a way to be served without having to be at a particular location at a set time.

It says: «Lawyers, law firms, and the overall legal industry in Canada will be facing a complex and compelling set of challenges over the next decade as they endeavour to remain viable, competitive and relevant in the face of a wave of fundamental change.

The most common challenges that foreign investors and clients face when setting up a business in my country are: qualifying for the complex bidding processes for major projects; finding reliable partners to form partnerships or consortiums; and cultural nuance and legal uncertainty & insecurity caused by changing its regulatory environment and not having legal advisors with the capacity to offer them comprehensive and trustable legal services.

While proof that the advent of Tesco law is already changing the face of the consumer legal market has hardly been in short supply, Duke Street Capital delivered further evidence this week with the news that it is set to acquire a majority stake in Parabis Group — the parent company of insurance litigation law firms Plexus Law and Cogent Law.

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