Sentences with phrase «leading lawyers at»

Other leading lawyers at the firm include Ahmad Bassni Hj Abbas and Tan Suan Chin.

Leading lawyers at Harrison Clark Rickerbys are celebrating after being recognised as the county's best commercial property team, and the firm's former senior partner Jonathan Brew has been... more

Leading lawyers at Harrison Clark Rickerbys are celebrating after being recognised as the county's best commercial property team, and the firm's former senior partner Jonathan Brew has been given a lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution to the county's legal profession at the Worcestershire Law Society's annual awards dinner.

Chris Horner is a senior fellow at CEI and the lead lawyer at ATI, a close CEI affiliate known for its litigious harassment of climate scientist Michael Mann alongside Virginia attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who just worked with coal utility companies to kill Virginia's renewable energy law.

Montgomery County workers» comp lawyer Ken Berman is a leading lawyer at Berman, Sobin, Gross, Feldman and Darby in Gaithersburg.

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«Mueller recognizes that Russian organized crime and sophisticated financial transactions involving them are going to be right at the center and Page is definitely a leading expert there,» Scott Horton, a US lawyer with experience working in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, told The Guardian.

Jacobs recanted some of his assertions as a witness in a November court hearing, leading a top Uber lawyer to describe the letter as an effort at «extortion.»

Telephone operators at the service center have been unable to provide meaningful assistance and in some cases have provided wrong information, leading to delays and rejections of applications, said legal specialists at the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration SeLawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Selawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Ivan Grbesic, a partner at Stikeman Elliott and lead lawyer for the firm in its handling of Nexa Resources SA's (TSX: NEXA) US$ 496 - million... Continue reading →

Before starting her own employment law practice, Ms. Kow practiced employment law and litigation at leading California and national law firms, and served as the sole employment lawyer and Senior Counsel at a Silicon Valley based company with 75 locations worldwide.

In 2008, Lawdragonnamed him (at only age 36) one of the «500 Leading Lawyers in America» and described him as a «dynamo talent.»

Even the U.S. government's leading antitrust enforcer — Makan Delrahim, a competition lawyer who arrived at the DOJ this summer — at first expressed an openness to the merger.

Information from Ackerman's computer led to a far - reaching 1995 indictment that targeted 59 people at all levels of the cartel, including six lawyers whom the government said crossed the line to work in a cocaine - smuggling conspiracy.

After winning the White House, however, Trump opted to nominate Makan Delrahim, a well - known corporate competition lawyer, to the leading antitrust post at the Justice Department.

The lawyers, led by an official at the Prime Minister's office, tried to turn natural resource provision upside down in favour of the vessel owners, but to its credit the parliamentary committee in charge restored the original language of the clause proposed by the Constitutional Council.

Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.

The NYC Housing Authority's re-inspections of its apartments for lead paint are still flawed and leave kids «at serious risk,» a lawyer for some tenants says in new court papers.

Had Silver's lawyers made any attempt to portray Silver as a man of character at the trial, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara would have undoubtedly seen to it that the Sheldon E. Silver farce had made it into the court record, probably during the testimony of Michael Whyland, Silver's spokesman who led the media attack on the Times story.

Two lawyers at the center of events that led to criminal charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto testified this past week that they had starkly different reactions when they realized the state constitution barred the town from guaranteeing loans for a private business.

Assistant US Attorney Douglas Bloom, in an Oct. 20 letter to Karas, said the government opposes Misir's request because it believes there's another lawyer at Misir's firm who can take over as lead counsel.

Leading up to the decision, lawyers for Mr. Silver have filed letters of support from ex-colleagues, constituents, family members and even a former employee at a Chinese restaurant he frequented.

With about 90 percent of the 11 - county district reporting, early returns at Schreibman headquarters in Uptown Kingston had the Stone Ridge lawyer leading Tyner 60 - 40.

But interviews with Cuomo, law - enforcement officials, FBI agents, Cuomo's campaign committee, Cuomo's former law partners, and the lawyers who were present at the congressional hearing suggest that none of these leads turns into anything substantial.

The lawyer, Irwin Raij, a partner at the Foley & Lardner law firm, is a sports industry expert who led Cuomo's effort in 2012 to negotiate the $ 130 million deal with the Buffalo Bills to renovate their stadium.

Since Nick's earlier posting, lawyers for the Senate Majority filed a request asking to reschedule the April 18 oral arguments to April 19 or 20 because lead counsel Michael Carvin will be out - of - town at a funeral.

At the hearing in the matter, Friday, MTN's counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, led a team of MTN lawyers made up of 10 senior advocates, told the presiding judge, Mohammed Idris, on Friday at the federal high court, Ikoyi, Lagos, that MTN has opted to settle out of courAt the hearing in the matter, Friday, MTN's counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, led a team of MTN lawyers made up of 10 senior advocates, told the presiding judge, Mohammed Idris, on Friday at the federal high court, Ikoyi, Lagos, that MTN has opted to settle out of courat the federal high court, Ikoyi, Lagos, that MTN has opted to settle out of court.

Derek Morgan, a lawyer at the University of Glasgow who specialises in reproductive law, speculates that the government may have backed the amendment to forestall any debate on the use of fetal tissue, which is guaranteed to lead to new calls to tighten up abortion laws.

Heather Kirkwood, a lawyer from Seattle, Washington, has released notes she took at a lecture last year by Colin Welsh, the Metropolitan Police's lead investigator for child abuse homicides.

I've learned that you can be married to someone for 18 years, look at them sitting across the table from you in a lawyer's office, and realize that they're just as much a stranger to you as the lady who led you to the conference room and gave you a bottle of water because your mouth was dry.

The rest of the cast is magnificent, and also expansive: Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, the lead reporter on the story; Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield and David Cross as Howard Simons, other top scribes; Bruce Greenwood as Bob McNamara, former Defense Secretary and personal friend of Graham; Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe, Graham's right - hand man and rock; Bradley Whitford as the (overly) timid voice of caution; Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the papers; Jesse Plemons as the young lawyer brought into defend the Post; and Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, fierce competitor at the Times, and another Graham friend.

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.

Lady Cop Makes Trouble sets Constance loose on the streets of New York City and New Jersey - tracking down victims, trailing leads, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers at a hotel for women.

said Danielle Droitsch, an environmental lawyer and director of the Canada project at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a leading pipeline opponent.

«The situation at the moment is so desperate that we need to do everything we can to reduce overall systemic climate risk, and that includes offsets,» said Martijn Wilder, a leading environmental lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, based in Sydney.

At the time, mainly because his lead lawyer John Williams seemed a genial buffer in court, I assumed this was an honest error on the part of his attorneys: after all, if someone says he's a «Nobel Prize winner», why would you think to check?

«The Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute brought together about two dozen leading scientists, lawyers and legal scholars, historians, social scientists, and public opinion experts for a June 14 − 15, 2012, workshop at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.»

This study closely follows a September Ocean Iron Fertilization symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) attended by leading scientists, international lawyers, policy makers, and concerned representatives from government, business, academia and environmental organizations.

«[T] he science to me — and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer — the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all.

«Mentoring, formally or informally, working on important files, being able to accompany the lead lawyer in client meetings — these are areas that give advantages,» says Charles Smith, a former equity adviser at both the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Canadian Bar Association.

I joked at the time that the lawsuit seemed like the type of thing that would «lead one or more of the lawyers involved in the case to consider a career change,» but, to the contrary, lawyers still appear to be lining up to get in on this sweet kitty litter action in the form of class action lawsuits.

LAWPRO's concern that unbundling could lead to more claims stems from the fact that the biggest causes of claims against lawyers — communication issues and inadequate investigation or discovery of facts — are at least equally, if not more likely, to occur during the provision of unbundled legal services.

A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

I've led or been involved in more lawyer image campaigns than most — three at last count, on behalf of CBA members in BC.

Super Lawyers and Findlaw are at the forefront of creating digital strategies, tools, attorney education and metrics to jump - start an enterprise transformation from a status quo - led growth strategy to one where the innovation is digitally and socially inspired for all law firms throughout North and South Carolina.

Targeted at lawyers, the article describes some «horror» stories of attorneys who revealed too much personal information on social networking sites such as Facebook, leading to adverse employment consequences (example: one associate at a top - tier law firm repeatedly complained on her Facebook page about how tired she was and her need for a vacation.

The new site will feature daily news coverage of the legal business, including breaking news reporting on developments at the world's leading law firms, and on the lawyers and professionals working in and with those firms.

Take that closing paragraph, stick it at the start of the post, and tell the lawyer, «That's your intro; lead with that.»

Julia Vanoli, learning and development manager and lead career coach at the House of Commons, offers some career advice for junior lawyers

«She is a true asset to the business and I am thrilled to have her at my side to lead this excellent team of specialist lawyers.»

Far too many firms view the goal of compensation - setting as simply «making as many people as happy as possible», which a) often leads to poorer performers being overly - compensated at the expense of the generous, strong performers who «leave money on the table» for the good of the firm, and b) ignores a golden opportunity to set performance goals and expectations for the firm and for each lawyer and staff member (one of which can be a defined role on a team) and then make the performance against such pie - growing efforts a factor in compensation.