Sentences with phrase «legal infrastructure for»

Verizon appealed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (USFCC) to create the legal infrastructure for the upcoming groundbreaking speeds.

A new legal infrastructure for the U.K. blockchain industry could be on the horizon.

It was only last year that our own government tried to introduce legislation that would have provided for the building of the physical and legal infrastructure for substantially increased Internet surveillance.

I look forward to collaborating with the firm's other highly experienced attorneys to help develop in a positive manner the legal infrastructure for companies to excel in this space and uncertain legal environment.»

Developed the legal infrastructure for the Delaware Blockchain Initiative, an effort to expand the use of distributed ledger and smart contract technologies by Delaware - incorporated businesses

But the present legal infrastructure for this new technology is inadequate.

She states that it puts England & Wales in «a much better position to meet the challenges of building better legal infrastructure for an increasingly complex world.»

Not exact matches

The Trump administration could seek to use eminent domain to seize land needed for a border barrier, as well as support roads and other infrastructure, though it would likely face costly legal challenges that could delay construction for years.

By establishing a standard for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework for assessing their performance.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Most of Canada's trading partners have had digital economy strategies in place for years, using the policies to set goals for connectivity, guide investments in networks and digital infrastructure, as well as establish legal frameworks to provide privacy protection and enhance consumer confidence in electronic commerce.

This review was conducted to support the priorities established by the Financial Stability Forum, including enhancing the infrastructure for over-the-counter derivatives markets and encouraging market participants to act promptly to ensure that the settlement, legal and operational infrastructure underlying these markets is sound.

ICO - experienced third - party legal consultants review your plans and infrastructure to ensure protection for both you and your investors.

Sopnendu Mohanty, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's chief fintech officer, won the market reform award for his work promoting fintech infrastructure and Yvette Rodriguez, Hong Kong's head of legal at Deutsche Bank, picked up the in - house contribution award.

Some of the proceeds would go to network maintenance, but the excess would pay for other forms of infrastructure these firms depend on: roads for deliveries, legal systems for adjudicating differences and regulations for protecting consumers.

Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure for the success of OER.

After years of legal complaints and evaluations that called for an upgrade of the sewer system, the county turned to green infrastructure — such as rain gardens and green roofs — that was implemented in 2008 with the help of Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, Speer said.

The Council identified eight major priorities in its response: increased investment in city youth; investment in healthcare, education, jobs and legal services for immigrants; specific funding for the diverse communities; capital investment in infrastructure; creating a Rainy Day Fund and adding to existing reserves; baselining essential city services; expanding criminal justice, community support, and human services; and more accurately tracking city agency performance.

Chaired by Eric Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, NDRC is the first - ever strategic hub for redistricting focused on winning targeted elections and ballot initiatives, advancing legal action, and building the infrastructure to achieve a fairer redistricting process.

In addition, the cooperative offers a support infrastructure for all the other administrative, financial, and legal aspects associated with their professional activities and offers business training and coaching.

The European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN, www.ecrin.org) is a sustainable, not - for - profit, distributed infrastructure with the legal status of a European Research Infrastructure ConsInfrastructure Network (ECRIN, www.ecrin.org) is a sustainable, not - for - profit, distributed infrastructure with the legal status of a European Research Infrastructure Consinfrastructure with the legal status of a European Research Infrastructure ConsInfrastructure Consortium (ERIC).

This includes the establishment of a legal entity for the coordination of the pan-European activities of the research infrastructure, and the financial support of the national facilities contributing to the research infrastructures.

Unfortunately the current legal and physical infrastructure makes it difficult to impossible to obtain 100 percent grass - fed organs and glands for use in dietary supplements.

Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure essential to the long - term success of OER, making it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.

Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure that makes it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.

The principal is also the manager of the school, responsible for the legal, fiscal, and operational functions that provide an infrastructure for learning.

Special Education Legal Issues Laws and Legal Updates; Building Infrastructure to Serve a Full Continuum of Students with Exceptional Needs; Emerging Trends; Improving Access for Charter School Students and Preparing for LEA Status.

The report describes how the incredibly successful campaign behind charters — that relied on branding public schools as «failures» and pitched the private sector as the only source for solutions — was supported by «a powerful political, legal, and marketing infrastructure.»

Authorizes DOT, upon request, to allow a state to use its apportionment of national highway performance program funds to pay subsidy and administrative costs of Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program secured loans, loan guarantees, or credit for surface transportation projects for a state, local government, public authority, public - private partnership, or any other legal entity.

It has been taking in huge sums of money for decades, and is now starting to experience growing pains as its infrastructure, government, and legal framework is being tested by the growth of its economy.

There isn't actually a legal infrastructure in place for you to have a legal business.

But the flip side of this popularity is the lack of infrastructure for cultural activities in China: there is no legal framework for establishing a not - for - profit organization in mainland China, and there is no tax benefit for making donations to cultural institutions.

The proposed legislation would underwrite extensive infrastructure projects, grant legal title for illegally deforested Amazon land, and scale back environmental protections for forest reserves on private land.

Lekalakala and McDaid won a landmark legal victory protecting South Africa from the drastic development of nuclear infrastructure that would have had devastating environmental, health, and financial impacts for many generations to come.

While the broad trend in Brazil was bad news for its forests, there were moments of elation for environmentalists, including the creation of the 12,000 - square - kilometer (4,630 - square - mile) Turubaxi - Téa Indigenous Territory in Amazonas state; some of Temer's most environmentally damaging proposals failed to advance; infrastructure expansion in Brazil and neighboring countries got bogged down by corruption scandals and basic economics; indigenous communities won a series of legal victories and settlements against the state, and the headline deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon fell 16 percent versus last year.

From now on, smart choices — be them good city planning, strict enforcement of regulations or the strengthening of the legal system — remain the best infrastructure for a China that is healthy environmentally and every other way too.

By contrast, the legal function doesn't have a large budget for operating infrastructure, technology or process change.

J. Int» l L. 15, which details efforts by 25 legal and military academics and specialists to develop an «intellectual infrastructure» for lawfare as well as some definitions and strategies to prevent the misuse of the term.

This Center also provides the infrastructure for effective legal services and systems, and shares best practices with lawyers and legal services organizations, while providing an additional connection to the ABA.

There is a price to be paid in necessary legal infrastructure of laws and courts if it is to provide adequate controls and safeguards for the technology upon which our lives are dependent and judges» decision are based; see: «Guilt By Mobile Phone Tracking Shouldn't Make «Evidence to the Contrary» Impossible» (pdf.; and see the summary, using the same title on Slaw, October 4, 2016).

If Post-Series A, your company's legal bills still seem completely unmanageable, that's often a good indication that the law firm you hired is too big for what you're building (non-unicorn-track using a high - infrastructure unicorn law firm); assuming your expectations on what the bill should be simply aren't unhinged.

The presentation was titled «Beyond Baby Steps: Technology For Infrastructure,» and while Brian and Rochelle talked legal technology, Stephanie Crowley took visual notes of this session on behalf of MyCase.

The combination of this software with on - demand cloud infrastructure enables radical new advances in AI for legal technology.

For over 20 years Phillip Georgiou has provided legal advice to clients involved in contentious matters arising out of energy, infrastructure, industrial, technology and manufacturing industries throughout Asia Pacific.

This purpose is achieved in large part through discussions between Society staff and the Designated Lawyer and other lawyers in a new practice about their regulatory obligations and their plans to build a management system for ethical legal practice through their practice infrastructure.

The majority of my work is for the Infrastructure Finance Team but I also step in wherever the legal team need extra support in advising lending services across the bank, including the network offices which the London legal team support.

She rightfully points out that rather than objecting to rules, and seeking to avoid them, we should be happy for their existence and, especially, we should appreciate and be glad for how our «legal infrastructure» protects us.

[108] This suggestion ironically echoes Hadfield's description of a «lousy legal infrastructure» where courts can be bribed by those richer and better connected, and it exacerbates the failure of law to provide equal protection for all citizens.

Services such as RocketLawyer and LegalZoom are redefining the infrastructure for the delivery of legal services.

He spent seven years working as an IT contractor in the City of London on critical, cutting - edge IT infrastructure and development projects for several major banking, communications and legal organisations.