Sentences with phrase «increasing number of law»

Would increasing the number of law schools and law school admissions work in societies favour?

Most Canadian law schools now offer courses in animal law, animal law practitioners have emerged and an increasing number of law students are entering the field.

(11) the problem is damaging the legal profession by way of: (1) the increasing number of law firms in severe financial distress because of shortages of clients; (2) the reduction of the number of lawyers in private practice, particularly so as sole and general practitioners and small law firms; and, (3) damage to the profession's reputation;

Flexible working policies are being offered by an increasing number of law firms, including Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Norton Rose and Herbert Smith.

An increasing number of law departments and law firms are integrating legal project managers into the matter management process to facilitate adequate planning, monitoring, communication and issue resolution between matter teams.

One counter-consideration is that an increasing number of law professors have limited practice experience and that many of them have a highly academic set of skills and experience, including doctoral work in some non-legal field.

Though an increasing number of law firms are moving in this direction, many still have considerable filing processes.

Recent polls of NALP (National Association of Law Placement) and NALSC (National Association of Legal Search Consultants) members, show an increasing number of law firms now use behavioral interviewing to better assess candidates» qualifications.

Non-lawyer legal form companies continue to eat up market share for low - end legal work and an increasing number of law firms will be competing for the more sophisticated legal work that remains.

Hopefully the years to come will see an expansion of this open exchange to an increasing number of law schools.

Hogan Lovells is one of an increasing number of law firms attempting to get their staff involved in charity

Callers to The HSUS report numerous cases across the country of animals left out in the cold, but the organization is also working with an increasing number of law enforcement agencies that recognize the importance of intervention in these cases.

Increasing numbers of law firms have transitioned from speculation to reality by bringing on AI assistance in contract review, legal research, analytics and more.

While Turkewitz doesn't see a need to increase the number of law schools, he finds value in the New York plan to the extent that it would create new public law schools, with affordable tuition for state residents.

I doubt, too, that the provincial governments can be persuaded to increase the number of law schools sufficiently to supply the demand in time.

As increasing numbers of law firms attempt to get their staff involved in charitable activities, Frances Ivens speaks to Hogan Lovells about its ambitious new initiative

An increasing number of laws and regulations have made it harder for low - income Americans to access birth control.

Not exact matches

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

In the 1800s, in Europe, the argument for the liberalization of bankruptcy law, and the introduction of limited liability, was bolstered by the increasing number of cases like John Bayer, who went bankrupt and then, later, started producing Bayer aspirin, which became a great success.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

Australian law requires employers to contribute 9 % of salary to employees» retirement, and this number is expected to increase to 12 % by 2019.

Investigators believe the suspect pulled the fire alarm to draw people out of classrooms and increase the number of casualties, a law enforcement source told CNN.

What was called the Law of Diminishing Returns indicated that the work devoted to satisfying wants must become progressively less effective; and Malthus announced the depressing but undeniable truth that, if left to themselves, the number of those seeking satisfactions for their wants must increase faster than the supply of those satisfactions.

We study a prototypical model of a Parliament with two Parties or two Political Coalitions and we show how the introduction of a variable percentage of randomly selected independent legislators can increase the global efficiency of a Legislature, in terms of both number of laws passed and average social welfare obtained.

Our most recent Constitutional Amendment, number 27, adopted in 1992, which prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives, was first introduced by James Madison in 1789.

The liberalization of some state laws permits increasing numbers of voluntary admissions to state hospitals.

Since then, not only has the number of such nations increased but, more importantly, the violations have been institutionalised by law and imposed by authority.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to restrict gun access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business School study.

When this scenario of cheap contraception leading to increased sex occurs widely, the law of large numbers plays out and pregnancies increase.

They warned that an «increasing number» of «conservative» religious schools «are spreading beliefs that clash with British values and equalities laws».

By the end of the century clergy were declining in numbers, illegitimacy had increased, alcohol was still a problem, church attendance was falling off, and, although confirmation was required by law, many had not presented themselves for it.

If you are involved in a private youth sports program which plays on publicly - owned fields, diamonds, rinks, or courts, or are in local government, you have probably been hearing a lot lately about what is being dubbed the «power of the permit»: the authority municipalities and towns around the country are using to condition use of their athletic facilities by private programs on compliance with state concussion safety laws from which they would otherwise be exempt, or, in an increasing number of instances, to fill gaps in their state's law.

Sally and Helen Crawley (First Steps Nutrition Trust) and other members of the Baby Feeding Law Group, have produced the Information on Food Banks supporting pregnant women and families with infants (2015), aware that despite the UK's well - established welfare system, increasing numbers of UK families are resorting to using food banks.

WASHINGTON — American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

The new law reduces the number of signatures required for a referendum to 7.5 percent of the registered voters from 15 percent and increases the number of days for a petition drive to 30 from 21.

Dr. Thomas Trojian of Drexel University College of Medicine was lead author of a new study that showed a sharp increase in the number of youth athlete receiving medical treatment for sports - related concussions after CT concussion laws were passed in 2010.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) have welcomed the launch of a new resource to support efforts to increase the number of people from non-privileged backgrounds entering accountancy, law, tax advice and other professions.

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But questions remain as to why America can not pass stricter gun laws, when a majority of Americans support a number of increased restrictions.

Senator David Carlucci said, «Lauren's Law has significantly helped increase the number of registered organ donors in our state, which means thousands waiting on donor lists may get a vital organ sooner.

As an increasing number of women and mothers participate in the workforce, federal and state laws and policies have not met the needs of both male and female workers who must balance taking care of themselves and their families with the responsibilities of work.

We work with 50,000 children and young people across the UK and our projects are still seeing increasing numbers of families who are at breaking point and children who are at risk of neglect, entering the care system, or are getting into trouble with the law.

In June 2016, the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law co-sponsored a study with the NYPD to assess sentiments regarding police body cameras, part of an effort to influence department policy as body cameras become worn by an increasing number of patrol officers.

Hereafter, no new form of county tax maybe imposed, and the County of Erie's three per centum sales and use tax and fees or charges established by the County Legislature shall not be increased except by a resolution approved by: (a) the affirmative vote of two thirds of the whole number of the membership of the County Legislature, or, (b) the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of the membership of the County Legislature submitting a proposition for such imposition or increase to a mandatory referendum to be held pursuant to article three of the County law.

And thanks to Obama's low poll numbers and the unpopularity of the president's federal health care law, many in the GOP are increasing optimistic about their chances come November.

That vision includes a number of bread - and - butter planks for the state Democratic Party: Paid family leave, increasing the state's minimum wage and reforming campaign finance laws.

In a prime minister's question time domination by law and order, Mr Brown said the government would increase the number of prison places to meet demand.