Sentences with phrase «from running a law firm»

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The firm runs professional development programs on everything from legal topics like international tax law and corporate bankruptcy to «soft skills» like persuasive speaking.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

Acea M. Mosey, who raised more than $ 900,000 to become Erie County's Surrogate's Court judge, will run unopposed after loaning her own campaign half that money and the other half coming from lawyers and law firms that would likely appear before her.

Chris Cox and Tom Basile can help him remove his belongings from the law firm he's running the state party out of.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

From the South Florida site: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accused a Miami law firm and its Brooklyn affiliate with running a fraudulent...

Former speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in late January and charged with running a multi million dollar fraud scheme that included payments from two private law firms.

After 10 years running the fair, Cappuccilli resigned from the $ 125,000 per year job in 2005 to work at the Gilberti, Stinziano, Heintz & Smith law firm.

Since he first ran for office in 2014, Sen. Marc Panepinto, a Democrat, received more than $ 74,000 from at least a dozen attorneys or law firms that had active cases before his wife - state Supreme Court Judge Catherine Nugent Panepinto - according to campaign filings.

Holtzman said she was so encouraged by the results that she took a leave of absence from her law firm to explore a possible statewide run.

Prosecutors allege Silver steered real estate developers to a law firm run by Silver's former counsel in the Assembly, which handled complicated real estate tax cases, and that Silver received kickbacks at his own firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, from referrals of asbestos cases that were sent by a doctor who received state research funds.

The indictment stems from a long - running investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into whether Libous used his influence to obtain a job for his son, Matthew with a Westchester - based law firm.

Limit liability Make sure that you work closely with a law firm or carry competent legal counsel directly within your company Irregardless of how dedicated you are to honestly and competently running your business, remember how litigious society is, and take appropriate measures to safeguard yourself and your company before issues arise There are many legal issues that can arise for an dating service, from dissatisfied customers to people claiming discrimination, to people claiming insufficient supervision in preventing minors from signing up

This is the space that I know the most about and the area that I've studied and worked on over my career, starting from a public interest law firm experience at the Institute for Justice, [then] the Heritage Foundation, the White House, and the U.S. Department of Education running the Office of Innovation and Improvement.

And current state laws permit incumbent board members access to the corporate treasury, allowing them to spend millions of dollars, to hire lawyers and public relations firms, run ads and mail materials to prevent shareholders from adding their designees to the board of directors.

Scalability — from the phone system to other information systems — is often the last thing on an attorney's mind as they start a small or solo law firm, especially if they haven't run a business before.

This type of platform provides lawyers with an assortment of tools designed to make running a law firm more efficient, ranging from case and matter management, time tracking, billing and reporting, and client contact management.

As an illustration of the value of authentication, consider the screenshots of excerpts from two email reputation reports below - the first was run against a law firm email alert that did not use authentication; the second is the report for an alert that did.

Established family - run law firm, MJV & Co, is implementing the new Compact solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the UK's leading legal software provider.

Were they at all concerned that a former public defender, who I'm assuming had no previous experience running a law firm, would be capable of launching a practice that would succeed from the start?

We have been delighted to once again join CMS to help run a workshop for students spending a week at the firm as part of PRIME, an alliance of law firms and legal departments, which gives school - age students from less privileged backgrounds access to quality work experience in the legal sector.

The law firm of tomorrow runs completely in the cloud — from the data to the desktops, security to servers, and programs to phones.

Many firms have a website that they created and run themselves, but they feature very little content to differentiate their site from other law firms.

A focus on lawyerless growth and on the creation of unique client experiences will force a change in the role of IT personnel in law firms; they will morph from being someone who simply keeps the system secure and running, to being explorers working hand - in - glove with all team members to create a better client experience.

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.

For just as law firms can not be run from Excel spreadsheets, neither are law firm partners perfect economic elements.

Systems protect you from being overwhelmed by the day - to - day kayos of running a law firm.

Total Attorneys Inc., a Chicago - based company that provides services like office management and business development for solo and small firm lawyers, runs a number of practice - specific blogs — from lemon law to DUI.

Of counsel to the firm Tipton Jones, where she practices entertainment law and commercial litigation, Helppie is just back from Cannes after screening her latest film, «The Beacon,» at the Marché Du Film, an industry gathering that runs alongside the higher - profile Festival de Cannes.

Georgia is a young lawyer banished from a top law firm run by her stepmother and forced to team up with seven quirky lawyers at a storefront legal office.

It's not the first time this has been canvassed here on Slaw, as John Gregory's post from earlier this year attests, but since I recently prepared materials for a webinar on social media as evidence, and in the course of that started a trial run of X1 Social Discovery (which is what the Department of Justice, RCMP, and at least two major Canadian law firms are... [more]

International law firm Pinsent Masons is celebrating its first Diversity Week running from the 16th - 23rd November.

Not that we need proof of that, but then law firms will insist on trying to run themselves as if they are «normal» businesses (rather than flat, low - hierarchy collegial collectives) so these days I don't shy away from pointing out this curiosity.

Today, we're talking with Katrina Leung about her business law firm which she runs from the office of her practice management provider, Clio.

From potential conflicts of interest to exposing your employer to malpractice to dealing with accusations of using company time for your benefit, running a law firm on the side is never a good idea.

Low bono firm Eden Law Corporation takes this one step further by using the best legal technology options in the market to run a paperless and virtual office, with staff working with clients from locations such as hospitals and shelters.

But the expense of running a law firm prevents lawyers from being accessible to regular folks.

We've had a number of initial enquiries from regional law firms on the back of a series of open days we recently ran on the technology and the implications of the visualisation.

Back in November I wrote about the Holiday Law Firm Challenge for the Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank running from November 23 to December 11, 2009.

She has a small, general practice law firm, and sounds like she is running it like a business, partly due to the help she has gotten from Kelli Hoskins, a business coach.

Employment lawyer and part - time Judge, Louise Skehan, who previously ran her own law firm — Skehan Legal — joins alongside international litigator and commercial lawyer, Michael Brotchie, who was previously at Canadian law firm Hobbs Giroday, and litigator Gordon Adam who joins from Monro Wright & Wasbroough LLP where he was head of dispute resolution.

As part of Legal Week's new LegalWeek CONNECT event, which looks at how law firms should be reinventing aspects of their business, from technology to people, we are running a competition to find the best new ideas.

Case acquisition is derived directly from the ads their law firm run.

I also disagree with the proposition voiced on a couple of panels that women can't «run from inequality» at large firms or the entire big law institution will be left as a bastion of outdated, old boys» clubs.

Any attorney who runs a law practice can benefit from the practical, concrete advice Rosen gives readers for marketing and managing a firm.

Local Targeting & Research: If you run a small law firm, chances are your clients are going to come from the local area.

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The cost of pre-trial preparation methods Law firms have been using these special tricks for years, but to run these mock trials, to pay these mock juries and to buy all the necessary equipment needed for making recordings from which to learn what works in a claim and work doesn't is costly.

For this reason, law firm Moore Blatch supports Cohabitation Awareness Week, which runs from 27th November to 1st December.

Solo and small law practices often run on very thin margins so benefit from law practice management software even more than large firms do.