Sentences with phrase «first practiced law»

Matt Powell first practiced law with a prominent insurance defense firm in Tallahassee, Florida.

He at first practiced law as associate at a small firm in Vernon, but decided to open his own law practice in the town in October 2000.

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Failing to hit its projections in its first few quarters as a public company would trigger shareholder lawsuits and cripple Spotify's ability to raise further capital, said Steve London, a partner in the securities practice of law firm Pepper Hamilton.

Clio was first to market with a cloud - based practice - management system for law firms.

Scalia, who co-chairs his firm's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group and is a member of its Labor and Employment Practice Group, said the lawsuit first challenges the «definition and meaning» of the word fiduciary.

My first few years of law practice involved financial litigation, so by the time I learned about bitcoin, I had accumulated the perfect mix of interests and experience to get excited about the technology.

Before that, she practiced private client law, first with Stikeman Elliott, and then with Bryan Cave.

Adam S. Minsky founded the first law office in Massachusetts devoted entirely to assisting student loan borrowers, and he is one of the only attorneys in the country practicing in this area of law.

In the decade between seminary and marriage, I had time to talk myself into the practice, knowing from the first that I would do what the law required.

I learned this in my first few months of law practice in 1964 when, as low person on the totem pole, I had to handle routine motions in both state and federal courts.

Two non-Christian town residents — Susan Galloway (who is Jewish) and Linda Stephens (who is an atheist)-- objected, arguing that this practice violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which states, «Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.»

Had a religious leader, for example, cornered Jesus about a certain person who was practicing homosexuality, Jesus might have first deferred to the letter of God's law.

That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said on the question of mutability or immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..

And if Tocqueville is right that «the principle of association is the first law of democracy,» then social justice is the first virtue of democracy, for it is the habit of putting the principle of association into daily practice.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

Christianity first developed in an empire that not only promoted and accepted slavery as a legitimate part of the fabric of Roman life but had a complex set of laws and customs governing the practice.

First, there's beer trading, the practice of swapping similarly valued beers, which is 100 percent legal (except if you're forced to break some shipping laws).

First, restaurants using tip credits should audit their practices to ensure compliance with state and federal law.

Mr. Garrity practiced law first in Chicago and, for the last 25 years, in Arlington Heights.

Under licensure laws, it is illegal for a person to practice a profession without first meeting state standards.

«At his first official campaign event, Chris McGrath outrageously confirmed he is against ethics reforms to ban outside income and will continue to line his pockets through his outside law practice.

The first step, the governor said, was to sue to upend a new tax law that restricts individuals» ability to deduct from federal taxes the amount they pay in state and local property taxes, ending standard tax - code practice.

It's the first time that the so - called EVEL system (English Votes for English Laws) has been put into practice.

First we need to eradicate the concept of «unlawful» assembly from law and policing practice.

Passing the New York State Bar exam on his first attempt, Mark chose to move back home to Western New York where he practiced corporate and finance law in Buffalo with the firms of Watson Bennett LLP and Kavinoky Cook LLP.

Mr. Lewis said the awarding of such stipends to vice chairmen was standard practice and supported by state law and the State Constitution, offering documentation that showed that Mr. Flanagan had ordered such stipends — first in a 2016 letter — following the lead of Dean G. Skelos, the disgraced former leader of the Senate.

«As the top state law enforcement officials charged with investigating consumer complaints of fraudulent, deceptive and abusive financial practices in our respective states, we know from first - hand experience that the need for strong consumer financial protection is undiminished in the years since the financial crisis.»

The California law, adopted first, faced two court challenges from SOCE practitioners on the grounds that it violated their free speech rights, but last August a federal appeals court upheld the statute, distinguishing between the rights practitioners enjoy to advocate for the practice in public debate and the limitations on the therapeutic practices they can employ in their professional conduct governed by state licensing.

The purchase suggests the state's top prosecutor is using software to map datasets for investigations, a common practice in both law enforcement and the private sector, though the Oct. 2 payment marks the first appearance of the French company, Linkurious, on the Open Book New York website.

Dale, 49, went before State Supreme Court Justice Christopher Burns Tuesday and pled to one charge of first - degree felony scheme to defraud and one count of practice of law by an attorney who has been disbarred.

Cesar Vargas, a Mexican immigrant who became the first undocumented person to practice law in New York, noted that Trump commented after the election that he wanted to «show great heart» to the DACA recipients, also referred to as «DREAMers» and challenged the president to make good on his promise.

Practicing in a private law firm if he was a lawyer or doing some nice things that get his name associated with good works first.

The delegates approved an initiative calling on member countries to pass laws banning the live capture of whales and dolphins for commercial purposes — the first time that an international body has demanded that this practice cease.

I learned vedic meditation during my first year practicing law at a large international firm in New York City.

The above 11 practices (first component) are law of attraction techniques for manifesting money that helps you to consciously and intentionally choose and generate the vibrational frequency of the abundance and prosperity you desire to manifest.

I graduated from law school, passed the bar but didn't want to practice law, moved to NYC without a job, hated my first non-lawyer job thanks to a crazy boss, worked at a fashion brand for three years and now I'm here.

I had just finished a one - year judicial clerkship & was beginning my first year of practice with a law firm.

As one of the first law firms in the country to establish a practice dedicated specifically to cannabis - related concerns.

McCarthy, heretofore a Broadway actor who has also been a series regular on Boston Public and appeared on Ally McBeal, The Practice, and Law & Order: SVU, makes a surprisingly assured debut as a first - time feature director - writer.

It was during my Miami internship, which overlapped with the aftermath of the Mariel boatlift of Cuban refugees in 1980, that I first sensed that practicing law might not be my eventual destiny.

He graduated from University of Idaho College of Law in 2013, and he first practiced as Deputy City Attorney with the City of Boise.

Tom: When we moved back [Tom worked in Hawaii state government post-college, then left the state for law school, an eight - year stint as an in - house lawyer for the National School Boards Association, and a few years in private practice in Seattle before moving back to Hawaii over three years ago], six months after I got there [Hawaii], the Commission was looking for its first executive director.

Under previous and current state law, districts laying off tenured teachers must do so in order of seniority, a practice known as «last in, first out,» or LIFO.

The man who helped craft the state's parent trigger law and who founded Parent Revolution has launched a new organization that aims to put a kids - first agenda into practice and give LA Unified students and their parents legal rights in decisions about their education.

A law is passed that, at least in the first few years, convulses educational practice throughout the nation.

«Achievement First's failure to provide accommodations, modifications, and specialized instruction per 504 plans or IEPs, and AF's pervasive discriminatory discipline practices violated violate federal and state law.»

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TRENTON — The first major change toNew Jersey's tenure law in a century, but one that leaves intact the practice of laying off teachers based on seniority, won unanimous backing today of a Senate committee.

I even got to work with constitutional law questions at PHMSA, something I never thought many lawyers get the chance to do and certainly not in their first year of practice.