Sentences with phrase «large civil cases»

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All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Recent sex discrimination cases resulting in large settlements, in some cases awards of multi-million dollars, to be split with aggressive trial attorneys, are the latest examples of misusing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The union's case is that by failing to gain the consent of PCS, the largest civil service union, the government had no authority to impose detrimental changes to the civil service compensation scheme, which governs payments in the event of redundancy or early retirement.

Mr Copson spoke about how, increasingly, advocates of Bishops have also built their case on the position of the Church of England as our largest NGO — a civil society group with a branch in every community.

«I've talked to Carl Paladino several times, in fact, since the primary and I've explained - we've had very civil discussions -... the Conservatives went to the polls, there was an election I won by a very large margin, (the voters) made their decision, the voters have expressed their point of view in that case,» Lazio told host John Gambling.

These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.

Such has been the case with Shane Black's Tony Stark - heavy Iron Man 3, the third Captain America movie adopting the much larger Civil War storyline and, hypothetically, Avengers 3 bringing everyone together for Infinity War.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

But, under the Obama administration, civil rights and student groups have quickly turned to federal data to make the case that these events are part of a larger pattern of unfair...

A recent ruling by the CFPB, above, ordered Transworld Systems to pay a $ 2.5 million civil penalty as part of a larger student debt case.

It's not a matter of ideology but rather criminal intent (mens rea) and criminal effect, not to mention the civil aspects of such cases, in which compensatory and punitive damages may be imposed upon the miscreant parties involved in the perpetration of deceit for the purposes of pecuniary or other material gain attained to the detriment of specific other people and the public at large.

The necessity of such a large team is best understood through the number of legal cases it handled last year — more than 88,000 across criminal, civil, labour and family law, among others.

She has a formidable record of success in arguments before the Supreme Court, and is notable for her high - profile work in civil rights cases as well as large - scale commercial appeals.

This is a civil rights case for wrongful incarceration against a large U.S. municipality and various police officers.

In the more extensive civil cases involving, for instance, catering on an industrial scale, there can be large volumes of records to be analysed.

, «Middle Income Access to Justice» (University of Toronto Press, 2012), the «Introduction» states in part (p. 4): «For our purposes, when we refer to middle income earners, we are contemplating the large group of individuals whose household income is too high to allow them to qualify for legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law matter.

In our book, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality, we offer a comprehensive analysis of the system of employment civil rights litigation, using both statistical data from a large random sample of cases and in - depth interviews with plaintiffs, plaintiffs lawyers, defendant employers and defense lawyers about their experiences with and perspectives on discrimination lawsuits.

In Lord Justice Jackson's preliminary report on civil litigation costs, a whole chapter is devoted to e-disclosure, and the huge costs that can be incurred, particularly in very large cases.

She has specific case management / project management experience in managing large volume litigation requiring strategic and team management skills as well as document management experience of both civil and criminal proceedings in all Court jurisdictions.

Priya is also the lead associate of Stephenson Harwood's India group and is presently acting for one of India's largest real estate developers in the first civil test cases about alleged manipulation of the LIBOR benchmark (Deutsche Bank v Unitech).

In 2001, tort cases (not all of which were personal injury) accounted for nearly 2/3 of the 12,000 civil suits that went to trial in state courts in the 75 largest counties in the United States.

After working for both a large civil defense firm and the Attorney General's office in the Torts Division, Aaron V. Rocke started his Rocke Law Group in 2008 so that he could control the number of cases he took on to ensure a high level of service and full attention to client needs.

We act for the largest Latvian - Russian joint company in the Baltic States in a challenging high - profile civil case against the Byelorussian company.

We were involved in one of the largest civil rights cases in the United States.

Having been involved in most of the landmark corporate litigation and high - stakes civil litigation in Lebanon, El - Aref International Law Office litigation department has acquired extensive experience, including precedent - setting corporate and commercial litigation and representation of clients in highly sensitive disputes.The lawyers in El - Aref Law Office have an impressive track record for winning extremely large and difficult cases, and a proven ability to succeed in the courtroom.

Consumer class actions are civil federal or state court cases brought by one or more individuals on behalf of themselves and a larger group or «class» of individuals who have suffered the same harm.

Iowa Legal Aid is the state's largest organization offering civil legal services to poor residents, closing an average of 23,000 cases a year between 2008 and 2012.»

He has substantial experience in trying civil cases and has brought a large number of cases to verdict.

The Bingham Centre makes the valid point that the fact that cases such as Al Rawi (allegations of rendition and torture by the security services which resulted in a large civil settlement) have meant courts ordering more disclosure from the security services may be more a result of policy changes by the security services than of judicial activism which needs to be reined in.

In 2007, while he was president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, David White helped organize and moderated a Bench - Bar Symposium which was focused in large part on techniques for implementing expanded voir dire in civil cases.

The role of eDiscovery is becoming more vital for organizations today due to the large number of civil cases filed each year.

Handling more than 300 civil cases, including accumulated abundant experience in litigation and arbitration and non-contentious cases, Zhengyang Wang has been the legal counsel for more than 30 companies and has provided contentious and non-contentious legal services to domestic financial organisations and large state - owned corporations.

He drove a number of change initiatives, such as Justice on Target (that reduced, for the first time in 18 years, the time to trial and the number of court appearances per criminal case), a health and safety initiative that reduced workplace injuries by 20 % in 3 years, the 4 Pillars of Family Reform, Civil Justice Reform, the largest funding increase in Legal Aid's history, and was part of a new approach to indigenous relations recognized by the United Nations.

Md Monzur Rabbi is from Dhaka, the capital and largest city in Bangladesh, where a civil case can wander through the court system sometimes for as long as ten years.

The course will focus on the problems of large multi-party and multi-forum civil cases and how courts and litigants deal with them.

Many civil law countries lack an express mechanism for grouping large numbers of similar claims together into a single case except in very limited circumstances.

This is an advanced civil procedure class taught in the Moot Courtroom for those interested in large scale litigation, with an emphasis on practical application and stand - up courtroom 3 - minute «mini - oral arguments» on many of the key cases.

The case against HireRight Solutions, Inc. represents the first time the FTC has charged an employment background screening firm with violating the FCRA, and is the second - largest civil penalty that the FTC has obtained under the Act.

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Provided administrative and technical support to multiple law firms Scheduled activities for intellectual property, bankruptcy, and corporate attorneys Created and distributed weekly and monthly calendars containing case deadlines Obtained working knowledge of the Federal and local rules of Civil Procedure Performed legal research using multiple industry search engines and databases Assisted attorneys with conflict of interest inquiries, strategy, and special projects Filed legal documents in federal, state, county, city, and appellate courts Oversaw case developments and prepared status reports for legal team Scanned, proofread, edited, and converted legal documents into Adobe PDF files for printing and archival purposes Oversaw all firm incoming and outgoing mail processes Directed and maintained large scale military computer systems Received multiple awards for excellent service record

Professional Accomplishments Provided administrative and technical support to multiple law firms Scheduled activities for intellectual property, bankruptcy, and corporate attorneys Created and distributed weekly and monthly calendars containing case deadlines Obtained working knowledge of the Federal and local rules of Civil Procedure Performed legal research using multiple industry search engines and databases Assisted attorneys with conflict of interest inquiries, strategy, and special projects Filed legal documents in federal, state, county, city, and appellate courts Oversaw case developments and prepared status reports for legal team Scanned, proofread, edited, and converted legal documents into Adobe PDF files for printing and archival purposes Oversaw all firm incoming and outgoing mail processes Directed and maintained large scale military computer systems Received multiple awards for excellent service record