Sentences with phrase «legal reasoning rather»

It is assumed that law school graduates have received a solid education in legal reasoning rather than in corporate competitiveness.

Not exact matches

Indeed, they posit that one of the potential reasons the five bonds were selected for transfer is that they were issued out of the bank's Lisbon headquarters rather than out of international branches such as London (where pari passu has its own distinct legal history).

In light of the frequency and outcomes of the case law to date, the primary reason effectuating these policies should be professional proactivity rather than legal liability.

For example, it's perfectly legal and reasonable to pay college tuition expenses with a student loan rather than a credit card for no reason other than to take advantage of the student loan interest deduction.

This was done for pragmatic rather than political reasons, because ratification provides the same set of legal obligations on all Kyoto parties and thereby provides the basis for the harmonisation of trading systems.

Rather, he agrees with Drinker Biddle's reasons for the merger: to allow the firm to provide legal services more efficiently.

Moreover, the opinion demonstrates some rather dubious legal reasoning.

Family law is a unique species of civil law for many reasons, but primarily because of: the frequency with which disputes brought to court concern social, psychological and emotional issues rather than legal; the almost complete absence of circumstances in which a specific legal conclusion invariably and inevitably results from a particular set of facts; and, the range of other areas of the law that may be concurrently applicable, such as contracts, tax, conflicts, real property, negligence, torts and trusts.

The Commission's reasoning on selectivity is that the advantage to the shipping companies did not flow directly from the STL regime (it was not compulsory under Spanish law for the EIGs and the investors to transfer the tax benefit they initially obtained) but rather from a combination of legal transactions between private entities.

I'm not seeking legal advice, but rather I'm seeking others thoughts and reasoning on a case that has been disposed of already, which seems to be a violation of constitutional rights afforded to individuals against police performing illegal search and seizures, without probable cause, permission of the driver or «owner» of the vehicle or even a search warrant.

In short, the Order in Council bypassed the legal requirements for adequate reasons: which require more than just stating conclusions, but rather, the reasoning behind those conclusions.

There are five main reasons why: (1) Latin is inconsistent with the Plain - English Movement in American law; (2) Latin tends to obscure rather than clarify prose, even if your reader has legal training; (3) Lawyers often use Latin as a substitute for lucid expression of complex thoughts, or merely to impress the reader; (4) Latin can result in comic legal - writing blunders; and (5) Latin can lead to dangerous, sometimes outcome - determinative ambiguities.

However, most attorneys who come into the Great Legal Marketing fold are here for a reason: they want to improve their practice rather than just get by.

The General Court's reasoning is the result of the CJEU's (in my opinion, rather unfortunate) legal meanderings on the EU's competence to use article 114 TFEU to facilitate trade on the internal market.

Interestingly, this concept was not at the core of ICC reasoning in its Order, which rather referred to the «constitutional identity» of the Italian legal order.

For this reason, she considers her work to be complementary to other legal firms rather than in competition with them.

This focus was natural: «Most law professors used to identify with the legal profession rather than with the academy and believed not without reason that lawyers and judges were a substantial part of their audience.»

Lawyers must wake up to the possibility and likelihood that the machine will evolve from dealing solely with commoditised and research related legal work and move into the realm of reasoning and judging too; it already can, but we're only using this brilliant technology currently as a carthorse rather than its true calling as a thoroughbred.

Rather, it is my view that one of the reasons that lawyers have not adapted to better and more efficient styles of legal service delivery is because by using these new styles, they... [more]

Rather, it is my view that one of the reasons that lawyers have not adapted to better and more efficient styles of legal service delivery is because by using these new styles, they become confused over what their role would be if these styles were adopted.

Rather than go forward with divorce right from the start, some couples — typically for religious or financial reasons — choose to become legally separated: a process that allows for a division of property without ending the marriage, but this option is not available in Michigan because the state does not recognize legal separation.

The reasons couples might choose a legal separation in NY rather than a divorce vary.