Sentences with phrase «for private law firms»

There are implications for private law firms both big and small.

Together with Dan Pinnington of Practice Pro fame and Catherine Sanders ReachWho co-wrote the great study on the feasibility of the digital library for private law firms..

Mr. Maltz has been certified to teach an ethics CLE course by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and he lectures often on disciplinary and ethical issues for New York State, City, and County Bar associations and for private law firms.

There would be more disclosure of the law clients from Senators and Assemblymembers who work for private law firms.

He worked as a law clerk for a private law firm while in law school.

This policy was my project for the class, in which I attempted to create a collection of legal materials for a private law firm library in Wisconsin and was...

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The mining sector is still providing abundant work opportunities for law firms, from contract disputes to potential private equity acquisitions.

Monica Zent is the founder and CEO of Foxwordy, a private social network for lawyers and founder of ZentLaw, an alternative law firm.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.

«The larger exemption provides a lot of planning opportunities for people who own businesses or other assets that they expect to go up in value,» said Michelle Canerday, head of the private client group in Chicago for law firm Nixon Peabody.

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

The same would go for a Navy reservist who joins a private law firm that happens to have a sovereign wealth fund as a client — even if the reservist doesn't work on that account.

Stoyanov worked for the cyber crime unit at Russia's Interior Ministry from 2001 - 2006 before leaving law enforcement for the private sector, first for a large Internet service provider and then for Indrik, a small Russian Internet security firm.

Some of the best firms that sell cyber security services to private clients also perform work as government contractors and employ law enforcement veterans for their expertise.

The rule of law is one, according to studies from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the law firm Hogan Lovells; in countries with strong rule of law, government officials as well as individuals and private entities are predictable, reliable, and held to account.

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.

Those cases include decisions addressing the jurisdiction of the SEC, the CFTC and bank regulators over newly created derivatives and other financial instruments; the scope of the definition of a «security»; the availability of private damage actions; extraterritorial application of U.S. securities and futures laws; the standards of liability for fraud and manipulation; electronic trading markets; and the scope of fiduciary obligations of brokerage firms and banks.

The telecom, media and technology (TMT) sector, along with financial institutions, private equity and natural resources, are likely to be the busiest areas for M&A in the year ahead, according to global law firm Linklaters.

According to Pettit, the first task to avoid private domination is «to firm up the infrastructure of nondomination, providing as far as possible for a resilient economy, a reliable rule of law, an inclusive knowledge system, a sound health system, and a sustainable environment».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and the legislature are spending around $ 1.3 million this year in payments to private law firms, and the public is paying for it, says a fiscally conservative study center.

One of the accusations against Silver is that he, in Bharara's term, «monetized» his public office for private gain by steering clients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm that has long paid Silver a salary to be mysteriously «of counsel.»

The government claims Silver steered public money to Taub in exchange for referrals of cancer patients who Silver presented to the private law firm «Weitz and Luxenberg,» where Silver served as «of counsel.»

Her private sector experience includes working for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell and Fortress, a major hedge fund.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

Hartunian, who was U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York from 2010 t0 2017, is now in private practice with the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned the Government that any plans for a change in tax law aimed at private equity firms could also damage small firms.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Governor Cuomo's now disbanded Moreland Act Commission has a $ 300,000 contract with a private law firm, with one of the attorneys charging $ 550 an hour for his services.

He says while the million dollars in private law firm fees are listed on the legislature's expenditure reports, there is not explanation listed for why the outside counsel was hired and paid.

Unlike his GOP colleague, IDC Leader Jeff Klein is all for a full ban on outside income — as he demonstrated by announcing this week he'll divest entirely from his private practice law firm.

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, his law firm reaps tens of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress for the biggest operator of private prisons in America.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

The problem isn't the arrest itself or the charges levied against the speaker, who for years has accumulated wealth through private law firms in New York City.

Howe then worked for Andrew Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before going in to the private sector, eventually landing with Whiteman Osterman Hanna, one of the largest and most politically connected lobbying and law firms in Albany.

Lawyers for State Senate co-presidents Jeff Klein and Dean Skelos along with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have pushed to be «intervenor» plaintiffs, effectively joining a half - dozen private law firms that employ lawmakers as those firms challenge the commission's subpoenas for client lists and invoices.

The assistant counsel advised in a written opinion that Percoco was banned from working for private clients before the Executive Chamber for two years, according to the complaint — but Percoco allegedly said that he was planning to work for a law firm only on «matters pending before local municipalities» for labor organizations, not before the Cuomo administration.

But the private law firm representing Antonacci (paid for by county taxpayers) is fighting with the county attorney's office (taxpayer - funded and controlled by Mahoney) over what information the county should turn over to all parties in the case.

«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

Experience in government regulation can also lead to careers in consulting for law firms and consulting for private firms that assist in drafting food petitions.

Today you can find scientists working for private industry, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, newspapers, law firms, venture capitol groups, and many other areas.

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Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

While giving students experience working for such employers as law firms and advertising agencies, the arrangement also puts a private school education within the reach of many families in the predominantly Hispanic, low - income Pilsen neighborhood...

A tax - credit ESA law should allow private organizations to contract with banks or other firms to award bank accounts with debit cards or specialized online accounts that participants can use for these various expenses.

That intervenor is the Institute for Justice, a self - described libertarian law firm located in our nation's capital that has a demonstrated interest in upholding laws that funnel taxpayer dollars from public school systems to largely unaccountable private schools.

AAC cited its plans to partner with a growing charter network, TeamCFA, in its application, but the state's consultant (the private firm SchoolWorks) questioned whether the group — which had yet to ink any contract with TeamCFA — should be deemed eligible for the takeover program, given state law calls for an operator with a «record of results» turning around low - performing schools.

I was referred to this company called GM Law Firm LLC based in FL who advised me that for a small retainer fee, that they could get if not all but a great amount of my private student loan with Navient forgiven.

He has completed numerous commissions for private collectors and organizations as diverse as New York University School of Law, Westin Hotels, and the architectural firm Gensler.

While WordPress.com may work — in a pinch — for the truly frugal law firm, shared hosting or a virtual private server are a much better option for just about everyone.

«There's a problem for the law clerks with respect to the Code of Professional Conduct governing lawyers, by reason of the fact that they are being paid by a private law firm while working in the judicial branch,» he said.