Sentences with phrase «improving upon the laws»

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The package of bills would build upon existing laws by focusing on enforcement to hold drug dealers more accountable, improve regulation of synthetic opioids, and improve the state's treatment programs to help assist individuals with recovery, among other measures.

SEAs and LEAs are planning for and working to fulfill the law's requirements, as well as seizing upon new opportunities to partner with stakeholders to improve education for all students.

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), makes changes aimed at improving upon NCLB.

A credit repair business and its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit repair business, shall not do any of the following: (1) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services that the credit repair business has agreed to perform for or on behalf of the consumer; (2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the consumer to a retail seller or to any other credit grantor who will or may extend credit to the consumer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the consumer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (3) Represent that it can directly or indirectly arrange for the removal of derogatory credit information from the consumer's credit report or otherwise improve the consumer's credit report or credit standing, provided, this shall not prevent truthful, unexaggerated statements about the consumer's rights under existing law regarding his credit history or regarding access to his credit file; (4) Make, or counsel or advise any consumer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and which is known or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a consumer reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a consumer or to whom a consumer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; or (5) Make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business.

Upon request, some local law enforcement departments will visit your home and give you tips on how to improve security.

We have created, and continue to improve upon, an affordable, accountable, and responsive platform for lawyers and law firms to serve all citizens.

Beaumont is known for property conveyancing, and LegalZoom believes that this is an area of the law that it could improve upon, because it follows a well defined and repeatable process.

I suspect that the real heavy lifting in enhancing access to justice is a matter of procedural reform — specialized decision - making bodies with extremely simplified procedural rules for specific civil law issues (something that actually already exists in certain areas such as Landlord / Tenant, but could be further improved upon), wider permissions for over-the-counter motions, fewer unnecessary court appearances, fewer procedurally - mandated appearances (e.g., going from a Case Conference to a Settlement Conference to a Trial Management Conference, and possibly further, before you can get to a family law trial), and so on.

Now that we've established that law schools are willing to ignore and improve upon the actual grades students receive if it will make them and their students look better, maybe its time to talk price?

«[And] to make it clear not only to the legal community but also to the community at large that diversity and inclusion is something that law firms don't just give lip service to, it is really something that we want do and improve upon.»

He is also the Principal Consultant at Maximum Intake Consulting where he works with dozens of law firms throughout the country to improve upon their intake practices with an eye towards improving their conversion percentage.

To impose the additional obligations of [the third and fourth proposals] upon the many thousands of non incorporated law practices whose participants are required to observe their professional and other conduct obligations anyway is clearly unwarranted... [A regulator's audit] has the potential to interfere at a micro level in the running of a business, and is fraught with difficulty... This proposal is also seriously at odds with the expressed desire to reduce compliance costs... We recognize that risk management, improved practice management and a sound understanding of applied ethics will support improved practice.

The legal profession must be constantly improving its services, in the form of maintaining their high quality in a situation wherein there is a need to provide increasingly more time delivering each service - more time because of: （ 1 ） the rapidly increasing volume of laws; （ 2 ） their greater complexity due inter alia, to the complexity of the technology upon which they are based and impacted; （ 3 ） the greater volume of technology to be understood; and, （ 4 ） the much greater volume of relevant electronic records to be coped with.

I confine my role to helping you to transform and managereorganize your law and regulatory compliance function — and to maintaining and improving upon that transformation reorganization over time.

BENEFITS: • Quicker payments to law firm • Improves productivity as less time is spent submitting and following up on invoices • Expedites invoice review and processing with e-billing practices and automatic adjustments to match agreed - upon billing guidelines • Easy to track matter billings against budgets • Facilitates closer collaboration and better communication with in - house legal departments

We knew that if we could improve upon the efficiency of the law firm model, we could reach more people at lower cost.

Throughout the year, we will share thoughts and strategies from leading legal industry experts that will offer ideas for what law firm management can do right now to reshape the billing function and improve upon the ways of the past.

By this vote, the law society «has sent a strong message that the train of full and total commitment to improving access to justice has left the station and that it will not stop until all Canadian law societies have embarked upon the journey,» said one official.

Is there no room for compromise or simply acknowledgment that perhaps a policy or a law may need to be improved upon or needs further clarity?

-- Non-adversarial atmosphere of cooperation and reduced conflict — A team of specially trained professionals with expertise in law, finance, and mental health working together to assist families — Improved communication — Improved co-parenting relationships (when applicable)-- Retaining control of the settlement process — The couple makes decisions together toward a mutually agreed upon settlement, instead of a judge who knows nothing about your family — Greater privacy and confidentiality Savings of time, money and family relationships