Sentences with phrase «from substantive areas»

As a member on various e-mail lists, I get messages at least twice a month from attorneys around the country asking for assistance in everything ranging from substantive areas of the law to picking a talented expert witness.

Not exact matches

Part of being successful as a scholar is in recognizing powerful strategies that can be modified and brought from one substantive area to another»» with appropriate credit being given, of course.

While we are being a little glib here, in the way that we are framing them, these are truly the most central questions that anyone can ask of the human condition, and they reoccur time and time again across all the major areas of substantive scholarship from education, to economics, to psychology, to sociology, to psychiatry and medicine, and beyond.

First, many one - semester courses, designed to be highly relevant, differed widely in rigor and content, ranging from potentially substantive courses in areas such as African American literature to trendy offerings like «Rock Poetry.»

She explains that such queries are essential to all areas of substantive scholarship, from education, to economics, to biology, and beyond.

We hope the District has been making substantive (rather than accounting) changes in this area since the ERS report came out last year, and we would love to hear more from District staff on this.

The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.

Perhaps we can move on from your (and my) ignorance of ocean thermal dynamics onto the more substantive and controversial area of whether and how much of the measured warming is due to CO2.

I try to imagine what the reaction would be if physicists in another (non-climate) area — say, quantum computing — were to hold a conference, and physicists from yet another area — let's say, high - energy nuclear physics — were to show up at their conferences and tell them, without having read up carefully on quantum computing, and lacking the knowledge to make substantive criticisms of the mainstream views in that field (beyond, perhaps, superficial ones that had already been exhaustively addressed and refuted in the quantum computing literature), that they had it all wrong.

I expect that having a few skeptics in the list of reviewers adds to the appearance of diversity, but in all the areas I reviewed the process carefully insulates the final text from influences that depart in any substantive way from the Lead Author's prior views, chiefly by putting the text through 3 re-writes after the close of scientific review.

I am «unsurprised» because among fellow environmental and earth scientists here in the Boulder, Colorado area, realclimate.org is well - known to be censorial, petty, and disengaged from the larger substantive issues faced in science and and by society.

Slaw and 3 Geeks, of course, both emerged from the practice support rather than the substantive law side of the profession (both have their roots in the law librarian, KM and legal research areas).

What if you could use that time to listen to up - to - the - minute and substantive broadcasts covering news from your practice area or jurisdiction?

He has authored numerous articles in state and national legal publications in areas ranging from substantive tort and evidentiary law to trial tactics, and is a frequent lecturer on a variety of legal issues, ranging from environmental coverage issues, pre-trial investigation and discovery, effective presentation of evidence at trial, medical records, trial tactics and ethics.

All of our writing assignments are based on the substantive law of Torts.39 In addition to the cases that students use directly for their writing assignments, they will often read Torts cases from their casebook that are connected to (and thus give an important context for) the area they are writing about.

Make sure to specify your bar admission year, primary bar admission state, and substantive area (s) of practice for which you are willing to accept questions from military attorneys.

We know that there are many substantive areas of family law that could benefit from reform, but our thinking is that families in dispute need a smoother, more responsive entry into the system if they are going to benefit from substantive provisions, current or reformed.

And then let them use social media the same way that successful boutiques and individual lawyers already do — by contributing substantive content on a discrete subject area, linking to relevant industry news from credible sources, and showing a human side to the firm and its lawyers.

At BSP, our lawyers handle a full spectrum of matters from significant routine matters to large international and high profile disputes in a wide range of substantive areas.

Complexity results from the inherently technical nature of the discipline, which involves the application of general principles to substantive areas of law that differ greatly in their contours and content, combined with the need for doctrine to conform to normative commitments (such as the principles of good administration and the rule of law).

The second type arises from the method of firm governance that includes functional responsibilities of certain partners for managing the day - to - day and long - range planning activities and substantive areas of practice.

Ms. Moynihan, a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group, is cochair of the BBA Real Estate Section, which addresses specific substantive areas of law ranging from bankruptcy to zoning, including land use, environmental issues, development, financing, and eminent domain matters.

From the claims LAWPRO has seen, it is clear «dabblers» (lawyers acting outside of their usual practice area) are more likely to commit malpractice errors, and in particular a failure to know or apply substantive law.

Case analyses to extract lessons from successful as well as unsuccessful public interest litigation across various substantive areas

The dissenting Justices agreed with the Majority on the substantive points of law, but would have allowed the evidence seized from Mr. Paterson's home due to the good faith conduct of police in what they considered a legal grey area.

She has experience in a wide range of substantive areas, including contract disputes, employment matters, intellectual property issues and litigation arising from insurance insolvencies.