Sentences with phrase «house counsel say»

Despite acknowledging the efficiencies and cost - saving benefits of arbitration, several Canadian in - house counsel say they've so far seen little need for including such a clause.

While boutiques may be lower cost, many in - house counsel say it is not the primary reason they seek out the services of a specialized firm.

The figure was about 55 percent of in ‑ house counsel say that a legal blog can actually influence their hiring decisions.

In - house counsel say their biggest challenges in complying with the rules are internal, with 27 percent citing poor communications with their IT departments, 25 percent citing budgetary restraints, 21 percent citing lack of buy - in from upper management and 9 percent citing difficulty in finding skilled e-discovery staff.

In - house counsel say boutique approach fosters familiarity and specialized knowledge of business.

Many business leaders and in - house counsel say that they strongly prefer alternatives to litigation.

Canadian in - house counsel say their organizations value them most for providing risk management, followed by regulatory compliance advice and controlling external costs, according to a recent survey.

That litigation may have softened in recent months is evident on another front in the Fulbright survey: only 22 % of in - house counsel said they expect to see the number of legal disputes their companies face increase over the next 12 months; a year ago, 33 % said they were anticipating a rise in lawsuits involving their company.

One in - house counsel said this 11 - lawyer firm is respected for «vigorously forwarding their clients» cases in a professional and ethical manner,» describing its lawyers as «known leaders in personal injury claims.»

Only 29 % of these in - house counsel said their firms had made any significant changes to help alleviate pressures they faced.

Because sophisticated business clients remember the last time they asked in - house counsel for an Arizona bankruptcy lawyer and in - house counsel said, No problem, I'll get you one who has an AV rating.

In the 2015 TerraLex General Counsel Excellence Report, 80 % of in - house counsel said they were being asked to do more for less, and 95 % were being asked to manage their in - house spend more efficiently.

At both events, in - house counsel said they hire the lawyer and not the firm.

For example, in - house counsel said they give outside firms total responsibility for big lawsuits only 10 % of the time, but law firms believe clients give them complete control of litigation work 58 % of the time.

As instant messaging gains widespread use at many companies — 53 % of in - house counsel said employees use IM, while the rate among billion - dollar firms was 70 % — businesses have the added burden of capturing and retaining those running online conversations in the event they are needed in a litigation hold instruction.

In one key aspect of records retention — responding to a preservation order or so - called litigation hold — businesses have taken heed: 89 % of in - house counsel said their companies now have litigation hold procedures in place.

Forty percent of in - house counsel said they have a retention policy for employee voice messages.

Not exact matches

«We don't know exactly what McGahn said, but the mere fact that he put a stop to that letter is another piece of evidence that Mueller could use to say, «Donald Trump was warned by the White House counsel that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway,»» former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider in September.

The paper says Thrush will change beats — he previously covered the White House — and that he is «undergoing counseling and substance abuse rehabilitation on his own and that he would receive training «to improve his workplace conduct.»»

The Ninth Circuit wrote that «in light of the Government's shifting interpretations of the Executive Order, we can not say that the current interpretation by White House counsel, even if authoritative and binding, will persist past the immediate stage of these proceedings.»

White House officials tout the appointment of US Attorney John Huber as basically a second special counsel on the FBI investigation but some conservative critics say his appointment is nothing more than window - dressing, the Hill reports.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

But congressional Democrats and Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who helped draft the GOP memo, have said it shouldn't be used to undermine the special counsel.

Gregory Craig, who served as Obama's first White House counsel, said that without an executive order, Obama would likely need the cooperation of Congress to shut down the prison.

Savannah Law School professor Andrew Wright, former associate counsel in the Obama White House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collar bar.

Yates said she had had «two in - person meetings and one phone call» with the White House counsel, Don McGahn, in January about Flynn.

Cohen flipping «would be Trump's worst nightmare,» said John Dean, the former White House counsel whose cooperation with Watergate prosecutors helped lead to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.

«If the parties agreed to binding arbitration, they have waived their right to file a lawsuit,» said H. Christopher Bartolomucci, a law partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington who previously worked in the White House as associate counsel to President George W. Bush.

«Typically, homeowners don't feel they have the heft or the wherewithal to take on a lender in that type of way,» said Jesse Ergott, executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Lackawanna County, a nonprofit budget counseling agency that assists people with troubled mortgages.

AT&T General Counsel David McAtee said the company's $ 85 billion deal to buy Time Warner «wasn't predicated on who would be in the White House in 2017.

Democrats have said this isn't the full scope of the available intelligence, and that House Republicans have adapted the evidence to fit their own ends — namely, to undercut the legitimacy of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Trump - Russia collusion in the 2016 elections.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a statement.

Officials have said that Trump wanted Mueller fired last June, but White House counsel Don McGahn talked him out of it.

Kyle Duncan, general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty who argued the case, says this is a significant victory for religious plaintiffs (including schools with similar lawsuits, like Biola University, Liberty University, and Tyndale House Publishers).

She'd care for her children and do chores while walking around the house with a phone receiver tucked between her shoulder and ear, counseling women from around the country, her son Peter said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he would be «surprised» if Trump fired Robert Mueller and encouraged him to allow the special counsel to «do his job independently.»

The acting director of the Office of Government Ethics said in a letter to a Democratic member of Congress that the White House Counsel's office is looking into whether Jared Kushner violated any laws when he met with business entities which later loaned more than $ 500 million to his company.

Despite the president's tweet storm, a top White House lawyer says the president is not considering firing the special counsel, Robert Mueller.

Randy Dillard, an organizer with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), noted that the city's Right to Counsel law, which provides tenants with free legal assistance in housing court, has provided substantial relief to tenants facing eviction, but said the rent loopholes must be closed to ensure more low - income New Yorkers remain in their apartments.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office will additionally fund the Homeowner Protection Program, or HOPP, up to $ 40 million, given the number of distressed homeowners still in need of the free housing counseling and legal services the program provides.

«I actually think it will be even worse than what happened to Bill Clinton because of the animosity they already feel for President Obama,» says Lanny Davis, a deputy White House counsel who lived through Clinton's trials.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said this week that President Donald Trump believes he has the «power» to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

But Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who initially praised Mueller's selection, said he has changed his mind because the special counsel is hiring some «bad people.»

Asiwaju Tinubu's counsel, Mr. Tunji Abayomi, said a letter requesting Daar Communications to apologise and stop further airing has been submitted to the media house.

Michael Kink, legislative counsel of Housing Works, an advocacy and service organization for people with AIDS, said the governor «moves health care money towards patients and front - line care providers, and away from big institutions that don't serve many Medicaid beneficiaries.»

Caputo said that he believes the investigation being conducted by the House and Senate is purely political, though he did say that he supports an investigation by the special counsel.

Reacting to the judgment, counsel for the Speaker, House of Assembly and the clerk, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said the judgment had made it clear «that the EFCC is not an omnibus, rampaging policeman or guardian agent that monitors state's finances, receipts, expenditure and use of state finances and that, that is the job of the state House of Assembly in line with the doctrine of the separation of powers, horizontally and vertically.

A spokesman for the Governor, Rich Azzopardi, says in a statement «the legislation — one of more than 500 that passed both houses in the final weeks of the session — remains under review by Counsel's Office.»

Central New York Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) said Thursday it would be very bad if a memo from the House Intelligence Committee shows people with political motivations skewed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Very few universities, says Isenbruck, have in - house patent counsel to provide advice on turning experiments into inventions, or to work out lucrative licensing deals.