Sentences with phrase «hold large law»

There is one thing which does hold large law firms apart from the rest, and that's the decades of institutional knowledge which is internally accumulated.

Not exact matches

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

Swiss banks have been prohibited by law from revealing information about their clients since 1934, and as a result, Switzerland now holds the largest pool of off shore wealth in the world — US$ 2.7 trillion.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

A large body of law and custom in the United States holds that because employers have far more power over their employees than businesses do over their customers, they must provide them with far greater protections — not least, a minimum wage and overtime pay.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi also passed a law aiming to encourage a wave of mergers among the country's «popolari» banks — the 10 largest cooperative institutions — while new regulations limiting the number of bank shares that a foundation can hold as well as new tax rules regarding loan write - downs have been introduced.

What are we supposed to do when we hold all these peace initiatives, condemn all these idiots blowing themselves up, make all these feel — good interfaith groups — only to turn on the TV and see another large story on how Islam is becoming radical, listening to another politicians talking about the apparent dangers of Islam and Sharia Law, and watching Sen. Pete King tell us we aren't doing jack sh.t.

Many hundred large Volumes have been published upon this Controversy: But the books of the Big - Endians have been long forbidden, and the whole Party rendered incapable by Law of holding Employments.»

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

Quite the contrary, large areas of Jewish law pertain to what the Torah holds up to Jews as God's (at least seemingly) arbitrary ordinances for his people.

The laws of motion hold for all bodies, however large or small.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

Though it is the third demonstration to be held against the measure, the rally is by far the largest to be held in Albany since it was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January.

In count two, the defendant and others at large «Sometime in August 2017, at 1015 hours at Agege, Lagos State in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did fraudulently obtain the sum of One Million Naira only from one Bright Obed (M) on the pretence of soliciting for funds for a bogus orphanage which you falsely held out to be set up by the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Her Excellency, Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 311 (1)(a) of the Criminal Law Cap C17, Vol 3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015.»

The work shows that the laws of quantum mechanics hold up as expected on a large scale.

Distance Reiki works according to the Hermetic Law of Similarity, which holds that we are all connected, as we are all energy matter and part of a larger whole.

Leaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal education law.

«Much like the laws of physics change from the world of Newtonian large objects to the world of quantum Einsteinian dynamics, so too might low interest rates at the zero - bound reorient previously held models that justified the stimulative effects of lower and lower yields on asset prices and the real economy.»

As required by law, funds that have net gains from the sale of securities or earn dividends and interest from securities they hold must pass the largest possible portion of those earnings on to its shareholders or those gains will be subject to corporate income taxes and excise taxes.

For more than 30 years, Best Friends has been working to end the killing by running innovative grassroots programs, supporting spay / neuter and trap - neuter - return (TNR) programs, promoting shelter adoptions, fighting puppy mills and breed - discriminatory laws, educating the public about animal issues, holding major adoption events, and conducting both large - and small - scale animal rescues.

NAIA applauds those groups and individuals that have been successful in promoting reasonable laws and challenges dog owners everywhere to merge into a larger effort to defeat or overturn breed - specific laws and to focus their attention on public education and on regulations that hold owners accountable for the behavior of their dogs, whether purebred or mixed.

The new law now «presumes that dog owners know that all dogs can bite (regardless of breed), preserves the dog owner's ability to present evidence in their dog's defense, and holds dog owners strictly liable for injuries inflicted while a dog is running at large,» the National Canine Research Council reports.

In the case where the gravitational scale height is (as usual) much larger than the mean free path and the characteristic length of secular changes in temperature (which goes to zero as the system approaches thermal equilibrium, which this paper does not study) the paper itself clearly states in the introduction that the usual symmetric Fourier law holds.

It just sounds nice to appeal to it because the subject happens to have a large data set — but that does not equate to it holding to the law of large numbers when those numbers are not derived from the same experimental conditions.

«Each entry is the product of extensive research and constitutes a succinct analysis of the issue and holding of the particular case, how that issue is situated in the larger discourse of bankruptcy law, adn why the case is important.»

The proportion of women drops significantly from 45 % of associate positions at law firms being held by female associates, to women only comprising approximately 20 % of partners, 18 % of equity partners, and a mere 4 % of managing partners at the top 200 largest law firms in the United States.

The first observation is that EU law instruments or arguments are not necessarily raised in intra-EU arbitrations, and a quick glance of the publicly available awards indicate that this holds true with respect to a large number of other intra-EU arbitrations.

April 23 — Quebec — Brunette v. Legault Joly Thiffault Civil law: Between 2004 and 2008, the Melior Group, which was made up of a large number of corporations whose share capital was held by 9143 1304 Québec inc., developed projects to build, renovate and manage seniors» residences.

In her more than 20 years in the legal industry, she has practiced and held key positions at other large law firms, often working on diversity initiatives.

Clifford Chance's (CC) recovery picked up pace in 2011 - 12, holding its position as the UK's largest law firm in revenue terms.

At the time I started publishing, any information about the sector was either tightly held by management at the major legal publishers or operated as gossip between information professionals at law firms, and even then, only the larger ones.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

(French courts held a decade ago that online contracts, notably the AOL (2004) and Tiscali (2005) subscriber agreements, were subject to the comparable French law — and invalidated a large proportion of the terms that those contracts had imported from US sources.)

A large majority of the Benchers then held their noses — while variously describing TWU's impugned Community Covenant as «abhorrent», «repugnant» or «objectionable» — and voted according to the rule of law as they perceived it.

There is greater acceptance of the merits of debt within the larger law firms as their attitudes move closer to those held by corporates, however there is some way to go.

Although the Supreme Court of Canada held in Christie that a «general access to legal services in relation to court and tribunal proceedings dealing with rights and obligations» is not a fundamental aspect of the rule of law (see paras. 23 - 27), it does not follow that the legal profession can preserve its monopoly over legal services free from government regulation or control of any kind, even when, as now, it has made legal services unavailable at reasonable cost to a large majority of the population.

An Arizona police officer who shot and wounded a woman holding a large knife didn't violate clearly established law, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a summary reversal.

The two officials named as defendants in the class action lawsuit — Esther Slate McDonald and Michael Elston — have since left the DOJ and now hold positions, respectively, as an associate and partner at large law firms.

(French courts held a decade ago that online contracts, notably the AOL (2004) and Tiscali (2005) subscriber agreements, were subject to the comparable French law — and invalidated a large proportion of the... [more]

Looks like alot of marketers are going to have to get even more creative to hold onto their accounts and give law firms and other large institutions reasons to hire locally rather than go overseas.

It requires lawyers and law firms to establish interest - bearing accounts for client deposits which are nominal in amount or large amounts held for a short period of time.

Simmons has been identified by the media as giving English law advice in relation to the formation by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca of offshore fund Blairmore Holdings, while Holman Fenwick Willan has also been linked to the leak, which has seen Mossack Fonseca achieve the ignominious record of being the source of the largest data leak in history.

CHICAGO, November 26, 2012 — Madison Dearborn Partners announced today that it has agreed to make an equity investment in Aderant Holdings, the world's largest independent legal software company providing comprehensive business management software for law and professional services firms of all sizes worldwide.

DeJonker has a strong commitment to public service and holds leadership positions with several minority and diversity organizations, including the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).

ACEDS awards the Certified eDiscovery Specialist (CEDS) credential, which is held by practitioners at Am Law 200 firms, government agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Justice Department, and some of the largest corporations in the world.

As one of the nation's largest plaintiff personal injury law firms, we can hold nearly any negligent person or company — regardless of size or personal wealth — accountable for their actions when they hurt others.

His writing reviews several IT projects presented by three large law finalists for an annual awards program held at the 2014 ILTA Conference in Nashville.

The motion judge held that, pursuant to s. 5 (6)(e) of the Family Law Act (which allows a judge to depart from the standard equalization payment calculation if the resulting amount would be «disproportionately large» in light of a cohabitation period of less than 5 years), the equalization payment that the wife would otherwise receive ($ 268,000) should be reduced to $ 60,000.

His writing reviews several IT projects presented by three large law finalists for an annual awards program held at the... Read More»

Prior to this he held several senior executive positions at LexisNexis, including Vice President of Sales & Market Planning for the Client Development division of LexisNexis and Vice President & General Manager of the Large Law, International and Corporate Segments at LexisNexis Martindale - Hubbell.