Sentences with phrase «legal practice as»

The concepts I have learned and the tools I have acquired will be invaluable in my future mediation and legal practice as well as in life itself.
In my experience, only a minority of lawyers in Victoria are interested in the ILP structure for the possibilities it offers to run a legal practice as a business rather than a partnership.
[Designed for upper - level law students, the Legal Technology and Innovation in Practice seminar course] will expose students to the variety of uses of technology in legal practice as articulated in the most recent study of attorneys via the ABA Legal Technology Survey Report.
Michael began his legal practice as an Associate with Capo Sgro LLP in the Fall of 2009, after working closely with the Firm's personnel during his summer studentship and articling periods.
I share my perspective gained as a practicing attorney since 1990, pushing the use of computers and technology in my legal practice as far as ethically possible.
We should think about the artificial intelligence in legal practice as a cognitive assistant to help us learn, search, retrieve, and analyze information [4].
I couldn't agree with him more... we need a place to have debate on how advanced technology is affecting legal practice as well as the ways it can assist — particularly so in helping with the costly, slow and burdened administration of justice process that must be borne by governments all over the world.
He retired from the Bench in 2013 and has since returned to legal practice as counsel to Hill Sokalski Walsh Olson.
It certainly will not spell the end of lawyers, but it may signal the end of legal practice as we currently understand it.
Gowachin regard their legal practices as the strongest evidence that they are civilized.

Not exact matches

«We're aggressively going after what we see as a greenfield opportunity for dominating the cloud - based legal practice - management space,» Newton says.
Apple is waging a global legal battle on Qualcomm's long - held practice of charging a percentage of the total price of iPhones and other Apple devices as a licensing fee for its patents.
The rule is intended to discourage brokers and other financial professionals from putting retirement - plan assets into products that pay high commissions or profit - sharing compensation to the brokers — a practice that's currently legal as long as the investments can be portrayed as «suitable» for the customer.
From a younger generation's perspective, some of the skills needed to succeed in conducting business in Asia may include better training of different Asian business practices as well as a better understanding of the legal and regulatory environments of these different economies.
Members support their board of directors and executive management in matters such as board practices, compliance, regulation and legal matters, shareholder relations, and subsidiary management.
The article notes that the «the sudden deferral of the visit has disappointed and annoyed Canadian business participants keen to capitalize on continuing strong growth in what Team Canada officials describe as the «forgotten market» of Asia and that firms contacted indicated that they plan to continue pursuing opportunities, citing «familiar legal and business practices and well as the advantage of a similar time zone as Asia's recovering economies.»
Upon graduation from law school, Robert began his legal career practicing as a personal injury attorney in San Diego, CA.
Kevin's focus of his legal practice in the midstream space began when he joined Sunoco Logistics (now Energy Transfer) in 2011, leaving as Chief Counsel when joining Navigator.
The market practices chronicled in this white paper show that financial firms and their sales - based financial professionals function as investment advice providers, despite financial lobbyists» legal claims to the contrary.
He has become known as a thought leader in this innovative area and is working closely with other Gowling WLG professionals as part of a fully - integrated fin tech legal practice group.
The firm has become one of the leading immigration law firms in Panama and the practice includes relocation related services such as legal assistance on the purchase and sale of real estate, setting up foundations and corporations for asset protection and estate planning.
This has taken the FSB into such areas as supervision, resolution regimes, derivatives markets, shadow banking, compensation practices, data and disclosure, and legal and accounting issues.
As part of her practice, Ms. Mata - Kelly was, for 10 years, an External Legal Advisor to the Colon Free Trade Zone Merchants Association (AUZLC), for several years a member of the Editorial Board of La Prensa, and External Executive Director and Legal Advisor to INTERED (Internet Service Providers» Association).
The report was prompted by allegations that some Realtors, primarily in the booming Lower Mainland market, were engaging in the controversial but legal practice known as shadow flipping.
Mr Giuliani also revealed what legal analysts say might be tantalising leads for investigators, who already were exploring Mr Cohen's business practices and whether any crimes may have been committed as part of a pattern or strategy of paying hush money to keep damaging stories about Mr Trump from appearing when he was a candidate, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company is already facing a number of federal probes into its privacy practices as it transitions from its former chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, who was not notified about this incident, to Tony West, who will start this week.
Prior to this, Mr. Makarov acted as the Chief Legal Officer at RUSAL Global Management B.V. Throughout the period between 2004 and 2011 he practiced Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions law as a partner at the international law firm, Jones Day.
Prior to joining Vision Critical, she served as General Counsel at Q9, a provider of outsourced data center services, practiced in the Corporate Group of Baker & McKenzie and held legal counsel positions with several companies, including CanWest Global and General Motors of Canada.
I fall into the side that deems prostitution as a practice this is not legal — and a detriment to society.
We'll also let 56 year old men marry 6 year old girls and practice male - male relations as often as possible to protect the purity of women before we marry several of them and cover them from head to foot, restrict their movement, disallow legal protection of them, etc..
Their integrity has been undermined by the easier forms of divorce at the same time as there has been a spread in the practice of cohabitation between men and women without the legal form of marriage.
This understanding of the practical meaning of our first freedom makes it easier to see why the practice it protects so easily outgrows the narrow bounds of the exercise of religion as envisioned by our legal system.
Christians get up in arms whenever anybody messes with the «rites» of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and we get up in arms whenever anybody messes with our legal «rights,» such as the right to free speech, the right to practice our religion, or the right to bear arms.
While Holmes frankly admitted that he hated facts and used them only as pegs on which to hang legal principles, Brandeis, as a practicing lawyer, immersed himself in the facts of a case to show that a particular outcome was the more just.
This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»
This practice of legal intimidation, directed at both individuals and organizations who affirm traditional values, we label as SLAPP, for «Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.»
These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.
The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.
I had just resigned as a partner in my legal practice and Lyndon was very instrumental in getting us launched we began as a department of CARE.
Yet racism is enshrined in their legal system, however many decent people try to circumvent it; just as racism is against our law, however many Americans practice it.
One day the evangelical charity announced that it was changing its employment practices, to permit persons in same - sex relationships to work for it as long as they were «married» under some legal jurisdiction, and with all the....
In short, animal welfare does not ascribe «rights» to animals, but instead places on us — as an aspect of human exceptionalism — moral and legal duties to engage in proper husbandry practices.
Although I dispute his apparent view that recognized» as opposed to fanciful» norms of international law or codes of professional conduct would restrict actual practice under the regimen ridiculously called «enhanced interrogation,» as described in the Office of Legal Counsel memoranda profligately disclosed by the current administration, I have nothing against «conscientious reflection» on the issue and lively discussion of it.
As the very notion of the definitive value of the human person is eroded, the concept of absolute right and wrong is lost from legal principle and social practice.
And when it comes to immunizing such «choices» from legal restriction or even private remonstration, the Court's liberals can be counted upon to flip on the switch of what Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in dissent, describes as «the ad hoc nullification machine that [is] set in motion to push aside whatever doctrines of constitutional law stand in the way of the highly favored practice of abortion.»
From 1976 - 78 he was a legal officer with the Attorney - General's Department and from 1979 worked as barrister, advising on trade practices, commercial, administrative, equity and constitutional cases.
In 2003 he was appointed an Officer, Order of Australia for «service to the law, particularly as a leading spokesperson in the areas of trade practice, competition, taxation and corporate law, and in the field of legal education».
If I am looking (btw, as a psychologist) for factors that may predict a QB I don't want, I am looking for (not necessarily in this order): his athletic skills, his percentage completions, his arm, (basically QB tangibles) and then (maybe) the kinds of things that DO predict trouble later on, e.g. legal violations, drug use, steroid use, assaults, mistreatment of men and women, cheating in college, failure to attend meetings, classes, and practice, flagrant defiance of coaches» directions.
Bradley has said he would resist changing his putting method as long as possible, Simpson has tinkered with a shorter putter, and recent converts to the dark side like Els and Padraig Harrington believe they're practicing legal cheating with their belly sticks.
As an expert witness myself, I've questioned while working on legal cases within the community, who would be my peer support if I were to face some sort of persecution within my practice by an unfamiliar or hostile adversary?
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