Sentences with phrase «for much litigation»

Of course, most of the time, a written form is not a necessary property of contracts (a fact responsible for much litigation).

One would assume a bit of give and take will get us over the line for the transition period but even then one can readily see the potential for much litigation over these provisions and over Brexit generally.

Not exact matches

Legal experts say rewriting the order is likely a much better option for the Trump administration than sticking with the «extreme vetting» order in its current form, which would likely result in more litigation.

«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner at venture capital firm Comcast Ventures.

The decision will clear the way for the four generic competitors in this litigation to start producing generic versions of Restasis at a much lower cost.

No financial services company wants to find itself apologizing to the public and regulators for discriminatory effects caused by its own technology, much less paying damages in the context of government enforcement or private litigation.

I also think that, given that there is current, on - going litigation the call by some for mediation is at worst disingenuous and at best mis - guided as so much has to happen before I personally would feel comfortable sitting across from those that have hurt you and then make myself vulnerable to them once again.

For years, the pro-life movement poured much of its energy into litigation, confident that Roe and Doe would eventually be limited, if not expressly overruled.

Showing perhaps too much confidence in nonviolence, education, legislation and litigation as the only appropriate means to eliminate cultural prejudice, the editors never wavered in their support for civil rights in general.

The authors then consider the position in other jurisdictions (such as the US, where the prospect of treble damages has encouraged much more significant private litigation) before making some suggestions for improving the rate of private litigation.

«If the governor is going to hire people for his political operation, he should be much more transparent and not bury them in corners of state government so as to avoid scrutiny,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government reform group Citizens Union, which is currently in litigation with the Cuomo administration over a 2016 nonprofit lobbying law.

I don't know how Margaret Chen is going to write the law when key money is being mentioned now in litigation for 68a Mott Street which means true market rents are much higher than reported (and that my mother is really charging a very low rent for an ongoing vacancy) but the fake rent is going to be used to claim so many things about owners.

Silver refused to divulge how much he made as «of counsel» attorney for the asbestos litigation specialists or precisely what he did to earn his salary and fees.

Only in the world of adequacy litigation could this be a disappointment to the plaintiffs, but the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) was hoping for much more.

Whilst it is arguable that the matter could have been pursued for much less, the reality is that litigation is a very costly exercise, with the risk that the losing party will be exposed to pay the legal costs of the successful party.

Though an extremely controversial law, much contested in legislative, administrative, and even electoral venues for the past several years, No Child Left Behind (NLCB) has not generated a large volume of litigation.

«There's a much weaker textual basis for the lawsuit than we see in state - level school finance litigation,» says Superfine, who also has a law degree.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

You also probably have a much lower chance of getting into or having to pay for litigation, although it can certainly happen.

Thus past litigation results are clouded in mystery which makes it much harder for an attorney to gauge the likely - hood of future success.

All very necessary I'm sure, but the ship has been pretty much righted and the company's life - threatening litigation has been out of the way for a year now.

«For most investments, much can go wrong, including numerous factors beyond an investor's control: the economy, the markets, interest rates, the dollar, war, politics, tax rates, new technology, labor problems, competition, litigation, natural disasters, fraud, dilution, accounting gimmicks, and corporate mismanagement.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

The key legal question in much of the litigation is whether the companies understood risks of global warming well enough, and early enough, to be held accountable for damages that are already occurring and are likely to grow.

The question for Canada is not so much whether climate litigation will come here (it already has), but rather which climate - based lawsuit will be the first to win.

This could be financial fear (of not having the means to replace something if it breaks, or feeling guilty for having spent so much), fear of litigation, of not being able to find something, or of missing out.

The «language» suffices to show that the «dialog» has been «opened» insofar as future litigation as being pursued, litigation which was estimated as having «not much downside» by and for the party stating, in provision of future litigation:

Not surprisingly, with so much litigation, it hasn't taken long for a client to sue his attorney.

Medical expert testimony for litigation doesn't come cheap in the United States, with expert fees costing as much as $ 1,000 an hour.

Thanks to no - fault insurance in Ontario and the insurance lobby push to limit recovery for whiplash, automobile litigation has become much more complex and there are a number of plaintiff - focused boutiques that have arisen, specializing in things such as catastrophic claims.

Winkler has spent much of his career on the bench pushing for improved access to fair, timely, and affordable civil litigation in the justice system and he continues to fight that battle.

Judge Carton has not been on the bench much lately, but the opportunity to nip in the bud what will undoubtedly be years of foolish litigation about candy wrappers was too enticing for His [Fake] Honor to pass up.

He said that «If the Defendants had not funded the defence of the action the Claimants would have obtained default judgment», and added that «But for their [the costs defendants»] decision to fund the litigation, the Claimants» costs in succeeding with their claim would have been very much less.

Formulas considering both origination and production must consider the particular structure of the law firm and the nature of its practice: For example, a law firm specializing primarily in insurance defense litigation and operating at a much lower hourly rate can readily afford the luxury of having highly compensated partners who merely originate business without having significant billable time.

The initially promised affordability of the «unitary patent» and Unified Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» here).

600 firms were in the running for the various categories that include everything from jury consultants to litigation financiers to law firm web design to expert witness providers and much more.

A company that is a heavy litigation target may be much more mechanical in defining its triggers for «anticipating litigation» and implementing a legal hold.

For litigation associates «there's almost too much training, to the point where we were still being trained in April, and by that point I'd learned it on the job already!»

Film finance avoidance schemes have been the subject of much litigation and now convictions for conspiracy to defraud the Revenue.

Greene also warns that some tax avoidance schemes, notably film finance avoidance schemes have been «the subject of much litigation and now convictions for conspiracy to defraud the Revenue».

There are also plenty of nonprofit organizations, such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, that do lots of appellate litigation that looks fascinating — and in many ways is very much like the constitutional litigation we're doing in my office.

Professor Fiona Kay, for example, conducted a survey with the legal profession and found that women are more likely than men to practise family law, while men are much more likely than women to practise real estate law and slightly more likely to practise civil litigation.

Sure, we could see the decline of heavy litigation which supports much of the UK eDiscovery industry, but I have been predicting that anyway thanks to high costs, civil procedure rules which are not fit for purpose, a wet (and disgruntled) judiciary, and a wholly ineffective, not to say deliberately destructive, attitude on the part of the government and the Ministry of Justice.

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.

Herbert Smith has hired a six - partner litigation team from Chadbourne & Parke as the City law firm gears up for its much - touted US launch.

On litigation I haven't done as much work in terms of trying to get either flat fee, or to not exceed numbers for different portions of litigation, but certainly I think that's something I might be interested in, if I was going out to look for a new firm, rather... Rely on litigation context is understanding how a firm bills and how an individual attorney bills.

He notes, for example, that «much of our litigation is done on a contingency fee basis, and this is very attractive for the public and gives even the poorest person great access to justice particularly from the tort bar.»

This adversarial disadvantage for the self - represented party is compounded by the fact that fully represented parties usually have access to much larger legal budgets in order to keep a self - represented party mired in an endless swamp of motions, applications, and assorted procedural shenanigans, with all the attendant litigation risks and run - up on costs that flow from such conduct.

Figuring your costs for a litigation matter will be infinitely easier if you can see how much similar litigation has cost in the past.

Despite being out of law school and in practice for nearly 17 years now, I still very much enjoy the process of learning new things, which is very important in a practice area like ERISA litigation, where the case law is ever - changing.