Sentences with phrase «leading law departments»

This module teaches students how leading law departments use process and technology to deliver legal services with new levels of predictability and efficiency.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during his daily press briefing, said the Department of Justice will be the lead on what Spicer referred to as «greater enforcement» of federal law concerning adult - use marijuana.

Chinese state authorities are clearly dominant in the new law, with the Public Security Department under China's State Council taking the lead in NGO management.

The deaths have led to criminal investigations by the Hollywood Police Department and Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

That led to an increase in the size and prestige of those raider enclaves, litigation departments, in large law firms.

The law established at the State Department a very senior diplomatic official — the IRF ambassador at large — to lead in matters of policy, and to put the promotion of religious freedom at the center of American diplomacy.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration offered the testing after a Department of Investigation probe last year found the city's housing authority had failed to conduct lead inspections for four years, violating city law and federal rules.

In its statement, McDonnell's defense team, led by Hank Asbill, John Brownlee and Noel Francisco, said it believed that the Justice Department «brought this case in good faith based on its view of the law as it existed at the time.»

Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Christopher Wray, a former Justice Department official, declared today that he will not let politics get in the way of the bureau's mission, saying its work will be driven only by «the facts, the law and the impartial pursuit of justice.»

He contrasted this with the record of former Attorney General Eric Holder and current Attorney General Loretta Lynch, respectively the first and second African - Americans to lead the Department of Justice, and their work probing police departments and combating restrictive voting laws.

I worked directly with then - Sheriff James Kralik, with the current Sheriff Lou Falco, as well as the chiefs of police of all county police departments, members of the State Police and the FBI and many other leading law enforcement personnel to put together a comprehensive and ground - breaking report that lead to new policies and public awareness designed to improve safety in the county.

«This report is evidence of the strong determination the City Council and the Department of Education share to ensure that the children parents entrust to schools» care, return to them safe at each day's end,» said Council Member Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., the law's lead sponsor.

At 11 a.m., Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Albany Police Chief Brendan Cox will announce a major step forward in the implementation of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program as well as new police training that advances the Albany Police Department on the progressive edge of policing in New York and the nation, City Hall, 24 Eagle St., Albany.

Investigators believe a struggle for a New York Police Department officer's gun led to the Tuesday shooting death of a man involved in a car chase from the Bronx into Westchester County, a law - enforcement official said.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- The City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Police Department are the subject of a lawsuit brought on by Black Lives Matter, led by a UB Law School professor.

He also said he was fully vetted by the Second Department Grievance Committee of the New York court system, which conducted a thorough investigation into all the circumstances leading up to his guilty plea to determine his character and fitness to continue practicing law.

By drawing on an existing 1980 state health department statute that would set up a pilot program for medical marijuana, Cuomo avoids the risk that the Republican led State Senate might not approve a larger law to permit the illegal drug to be used for health treatments.

Some leading legislators have left the door open for changes in the evaluation law during their next session, which begins in January.State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), during an interview last week with National Public Radio on WCNY in Syracuse, said he believes any required changes probably could be made by the Regents and their staff in the Education Department.

«We believe it would be enormously helpful if the Department of Homeland Security could lead a risk / security assessment of the necessity of the Park Row closure with local law enforcement agencies to help us determine how this street can be safely reopened,» the letter said.

«Our findings add to the growing evidence that the new laws, although controversial to some, were associated with marked improvements in road safety,» said lead author Jeffrey Brubacher, associate professor of Emergency Medicine at UBC, researcher with Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and a VCH Emergency Department physician.

The state attorney general, Patrick Morrisey (R), is leading a 24 - state lawsuit to kill it, and the state Legislature last year passed a law that limits the kind of plan that the state's environment agency, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), can write to meet federal goals.

«This is the first research project to investigate if having law enforcement officers equipped with naloxone and trained to refer victims to drug rehabilitation will encourage more people to call 911 and receive treatment,» said Peter Davidson, PhD, lead study author and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

A Utah law has led to increased early identification of infants with hearing loss due to a congenital infection, according to a new study by University of Utah and Utah Department of Health researchers.

Arguing before a three - judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Beth Brinkmann (pictured), an attorney for the US Department of Justice, said that a lower court's reading of the law, which led to a temporary shutdown of funding for the research last summer, «is fundamentally flawed and should be reversed.»

Cut to seven years later: I was working in the HR department of one of Australia's leading law firms thinking, Wow!

A series of screen grabs from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student last year shows Ben Fields, a sheriff's deputy, forcibly removing a student from her desk after she refused to leave her high school math class in Columbia, S.C. Fields was fired, the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating, and the incident has sparked an effort in South Carolina to change a state law that can lead to students being arrested for behavior that is not considered a crime off school grounds.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

More than likely, these residents — many of whom are first - generation middle class residents, entrepreneurs, and blue - collar workers — would use a Patent Trigger law to remove control of P.S. 45 from the New York City Department of Education, and lead an overhaul so that all families and their kids have a wider array of choices.

«If the department was good at dealing with failing MATs, we wouldn't expect them to be over-represented both at the top and the bottom of performance tables — and they are at both primary and secondary,» said Laws, who now leads the EPI.

That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.

The New York State Education Department is upset because it believes at least one district subverted state law by reaching a sotto voce, improper agreement with its teachers» union that new evaluations wouldn't lead to teachers getting fired.

Instead, the Department of Education must retain its school discipline guidance and focus on building the positive, nurturing school climates that will ultimately lead to safer schools for all students,» said Brenda Shum, director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

That led 28 states to change a total of 100 laws or policies, the Education Department reports.

The machinations that led to the April 2012 U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust action against Apple and five of the six largest U.S. publishers will provide case study fodder both for law school and business school students for decades to come.

You might find law enforcement or fire department jobs without a specific bachelor's degree, but a degree in criminal justice or fire science can lead to better - paying work.

In 2016, ARL's Law Enforcement Department inspected nearly 2,300 kennels, farms and pet shops; assisted 151 local police and state agencies; prosecuted 68 individuals involved or accused of animal cruelty / neglect; and was the lead agency on the Northeast's largest animal cruelty case in Westport, MA, which involved more than 1,400 animals.

NEW YORK CITY ---- Rescues of New York City animals from cruelty and neglect and arrests of alleged offenders all soared in 2014, the first full year since the American SPCA began turning the lead role in humane law enforcement over to the New York Police Department.

When you put this bill together with the Health Department's recent announcement to invest millions of dollars to optimize Animal Care & Control, as well as the Council's passage in January of a law to stop the country's worst puppy mills from supplying city pet stores, you can clearly see a city striving to rise above — and lead — when it comes to animal compassion and welfare.

I have made many studio visits, attended a panel discussion and performance at Beijing University on the issues of art and censorship led by the students of the law department and the heads of art departments from the top art institutes of China.

In May 2016, the courts found that Massachusetts law unambiguously directs the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to set sector - specific, declining emissions caps which lead to an aggregate 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Julian Heiss is one of the founding partners of Cura Advocati and leads the law firm's criminal department since 2003.

The notable ones added this year included Australia's leading corporate & IP law firm Mitry Lawyers, and Attorney General's Department (AGD) of Australia.

Industry experts will delve in to the plenary case studies from some of the world's leading law firms and legal departments to understand how professionals are conducting their active and future projects.

We specialize in serving industry - leading law firms, e-discovery companies, and corporate legal departments around the world.

Goodwin, a leading Global 50 law firm, announced today that internationally recognized technology litigator and trial lawyer Neel Chatterjee has joined the firm's Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Practice as a partner in the Silicon Valley office.

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On October 4th, Bloomberg Law will host leading corporate counsel in New York to discuss the role of the legal department in company culture.

The awards were hosted by The Asian Lawyer, in association with Legal Week, China Law & Practice and The American Lawyer, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on 22 February and recognised the region's leading deal teams, individuals, law firms and in - house legal departmenLaw & Practice and The American Lawyer, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on 22 February and recognised the region's leading deal teams, individuals, law firms and in - house legal departmenlaw firms and in - house legal departments.