Sentences with phrase «issued against the firm»

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, became interested in the issue after talking to the CEO of a small firm in his district, who told him that the firm's growth had been stunted by the costs of defending against patent lawsuits.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

Index funds are one of a number of issues in a 401 (k) lawsuit against Anthem, Inc. brought by the St. Louis law firm of Schlichter, Bogard & Denton, the big kahuna in the world of 401 (k) plan litigation, this January.

Firms in developing countries can not compete either, as they lack the skilled workforce needed to perform these tasks, as well as finding themselves up against issues around the protection of intellectual property.

Pope Francis has innumerable issues begging for his attention: the evangelization of peoples, continued ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, standing firm against relativism and unhealthy secularism, outreach to the young and the alienated, the reform of the curia, the restructuring of the Vatican bank, and on and on the list continues.

While President Bush stood firm, the issue of stem cell research appeared to be a political winner for Democrats and to pit the claims of science against strict ethical guidelines.

In June»98 a U.S. District Court in Maryland threw out the suit in summary judgment, ordering Antonious to pay Spalding's court costs and issuing a $ 30,000 sanction against Stroup's law firm, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, for failing to do an adequate prefiling investigation of Antonious's claims.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

The whole issue of contribution is so contentious it is perhaps best to take a firm stand against more or less all conditionality.

In a November 2006 press release issued by his firm, Braynard boasted that, thanks to his patented «Braynard Precision Survey Method,» he was the only pollster to correctly predict the wide victory margin for Democrat Ben Cardin in his Maryland Senate race that year against Republican Michael Steele.

Gregg Polsky, a University of North Carolina Law School professor, who has written a special report on PE firm fee conversions and the tax issue, said he believes the management fee waivers should be against the law.

John Gullo was suspended without pay Friday, and the town issued disciplinary charges against him, according to a statement by the board released by its public relations firm.

* Update, 31 October, 4:29 p.m.: In response to this study, BP has issued a statement noting that the research was funded by The Murray Firm and Cossich, Sumich, Parsiola & Taylor LLC, two law firms representing clients with environmental impact claims against BP.

If you read up on the pending lawsuits against Tax Resolution firms like JK Harris, Roni Deutch etcâ $ ¦ they have similar issues of complaints the debt settlement industry had.

If you read up on the pending lawsuits against Tax Resolution firms like JK Harris, Roni Deutch etc... they have similar issues of complaints the debt settlement industry had.

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

If we presume that America is the nation the world looks to for leadership on climate change issues, the declaration of a carbon pollution emergency in the United States would be a clear demonstration of our firm commitment to the fight against climate change, one which no other industrial nation could ignore.

Against this backdrop, some analysts have been trying for several years to get a firm handle on where climate researchers come down, as a group, on the central issues in the global - warming debate: Is the earth warming up, and if so, are humans largely responsible?

«Then they wouldn't do stupid things like issue threats of libel suits that they can't win against bloggers who, it turns out, have lots of friends willing to make the law firm and its client look bad for it.»

Protecting your rights, supporting your goals — these are our objectives every day at the Law Office of John P. McKenna, P.C. Whether your situation calls for protection of your rights against serious criminal charges, resolution of an immigration law issue or representation for an accident personal injury caused by someone else's negligence, our Springfield law firm can help.

Among the recommendations in the Insurance Fraud Taskforce's (IFT) report published in January was the belief that more effective action should be taken against fraudulent solicitors with steps being proposed to tackle the issue of claimant firms bringing claims without proper instructions.

In particular, he spoke to the issue of Avvo's bias against small - firm lawyers:

«Sometimes a bar association issues a decision that's so impervious to the realities of legal practice that you have to wonder whether those who drafted it ever practiced law,» writes Carolyn Elefant, in «Maryland Bar Ruling Banning NonLawyer / Lawyer Referral Groups Discriminates Against Solo and Small Firms.»

In Regroupement des citoyens du secteur des constellations c. Lévis (Ville de), it is defending a firm specialized in ground condition studies in a class action against a municipality for having issued building permits on an unstable tract of land.

This seems to be just the sort of structure the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warned against in its 2003 «Diversity In Law Firms» report which stated, «In large, national law firms, the most pressing issues have probably shifted from hiring and initial access to problems concerning the terms and conditions of employment, especially promotion to partnership.&rFirms» report which stated, «In large, national law firms, the most pressing issues have probably shifted from hiring and initial access to problems concerning the terms and conditions of employment, especially promotion to partnership.&rfirms, the most pressing issues have probably shifted from hiring and initial access to problems concerning the terms and conditions of employment, especially promotion to partnership.»

In the process of interim proceedings, he has obtained worldwide freezing orders for hundreds of millions (RUR, USD), obtained disclosure orders, appointed interim receivers, and, recently, annulled worldwide freezing order coupled with a disclosure orders issued against client of his firm.

Our firm has the skill and experience that it takes to thoroughly investigate the issue, build a case against the responsible parties and achieve compensation for our clients.

We need your firm to issue demand notice when require or possible litigation and to bring actions in court against any customers now and in our future supplied since there is an agreement in place.

Our firm is uniquely positioned among personal injury attorneys in America, with strength in numbers, available resources, and dedication to take on the most complex legal issues against large corporate defendants.

The Firm was involved in a litigation concerning corporate issues against dissident shareholder members

The firm's successes include the top patent infringement award ever issued by a U.S. jury; the nation's first civil liability verdict against a foreign bank for providing material financial support to terrorists; and one of the top business fraud verdicts ever awarded in Dallas County.

William M. Connolly defends companies in complex litigation in state and federal courts across the country, with an emphasis on consumer class actions, claims against professional service firms, and commercial litigation involving issues of business valuation or complex economic damages.

Many of our clients have credit card debt, IRS debt, foreclosure issues, financial judgments against them, repossessions, or other business financial problems; and Zooberg Law Firm, P.A. helps every step of the way.

And firms of different sizes are going to run up against different issues, and will need to use technology in different ways; legal tech needs to be able to scale in order to meet the needs of clients of any size, from large to boutique.

Further, you can avoid common issues with credit card processing and accounting integrations (i.e. batching, voids, and trust money) as well as fee distribution that firms often run up against when attempting to use generic business software by implementing a legal specific solution instead.

Regulatory Health Checks — a framework to periodically «test» your firm's compliance against the categories of compliance risk in the FCA Handbook, give a full gap analysis and support implementation of issues identified;

Despite that, there are also recent decisions where courts do allow recovery of online legal research costs (by the winning party against the losing party or by a law firm against their client) where the research was necessary and the cost reasonable and the search done for that specific client on a specific issue.

His firm is known for its work in class actions relating to consumer issues, banking and shares: for example, it represented 32,000 convenience store owners in a successful challenge against the Office of Fair Trading, and 36,000 private shareholders in Northern Rock following the 2008 global financial meltdown.

It regards any such anticipatory agreements as highly dangerous, and have issued broad — some would say overboard — guidance against firms «jumping the gun» and threatening their independence under r 1.

The Ontario Securities Commission has issued a statement of allegations against a former legal assistant at a major Bay Street law firm and three other individuals, in which OSC Staff allege that the legal assistant provided an institutional trader with material non-public information, which was then used to carry out significant trades.

«If you find yourself working with an older solo or small firm lawyer, or up against one in court who you think might be suffering from a mental health issue, why not reach out and suggest tactfully that they seek help from a bar counseling program.

The law firm of Girard Gibbs who filed this lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs is rumored to now be preparing a second class action against Google relating to Pixel phone display burn - in issues with the latest Pixel 2.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a public warning against an investment firm promising high returns on cryptocurrency trading.

«What Trump has done has created a huge hole; there's no privacy protection,» said Jay Edelson, founder and CEO of Edelson PC, a Chicago - based class - action law firm focused on electronic privacy issues that has brought suit against everyone from Facebook to Apple.

A well - known electronic brokerage firm is issuing dire warnings against the CME Group's plan to launch a bitcoin futures contract next month.

In mid-February, New Jersey's securities regulator issued an emergency cease and desist order against cryptocurrency investments firm Bitstrade for fraudulently offering unregistered securities to customers.

Given the firm's dubious use of this misappropriated data in Brexit and the Trump campaign, Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has stated in a tweet that the EU will be investigating these allegations against Cambridge Analytica of its misuse, and Facebook's apparent downplaying of the scale of the issue.

On Dec. 20, Texas issued an Emergency Cease and Desist Order against USI - Tech Limited, a Dubai - based firm selling investments tied to Bitcoin mining.

A general resume that does not address the employer's precise needs or the firm's current issues will stand no chance against the purpose built ones.