Sentences with phrase «local counsel where»

Not exact matches

«There are times where Major [Cleo] Damon [head of the local office] is counseling families who are about to become homeless because of gambling,» Army spokeswoman Maribeth Shanahan told the Associated Press.

She rattled off her accomplishments such as serving as a counsel to the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus in Albany where she said they rewrote Article 15A of the state of New York to promote diversity in the contracts in the state and her work in drafting Local Law 1 — a law that governs the city's MWBE program — while serving as councilwoman in Brooklyn.

Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

Prior to joining Whiteboard, he was at the education law firm of Brustein & Manasevit where he provided counsel to state and local educational agencies on federal education programs and fiscal compliance while helping them navigate the challenges of education policy.

timely responses to communications by email and telephone timely production of documents especially medical counsel for plaintiffs advising their clients about early settlement and realistic expectations counsel for defendants advising their clients to attend mediations with sufficient settlement authority expertise in a particular area of law posturing and egotism on both sides claims for punitive damages where none are warranted under law preparation for significant events such as examinations for discovery and motions accountability for the consequences of steps taken or delayed unnecessary or defensive crossclaims and third party claims by defence counsel regional differences (some local bars are more collegial than others)

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland (US), Heather was an associate at a law firm in Florida, where she counseled clients on real estate and local governmental matters.

«Another new feature is local counsel, where attorneys let us know what is happening in their local community.

There are in - house counsel jobs at city firms, national firms, local authorities, charities etc. where she could have been paid well and worked fewer hours (other than the city firms of course).

«As a litigation partner at a 575 lawyer firm with clients throughout the United States, I need to work with local counsel I can trust in regions where our firm does not have an office.

A local counsel gig may let you see a motion to strike, a motion to bifurcate, or other types of rarer birds so that when, one day, you need to bring a motion to strike in your own case, you'll know where to look for an example and you'll have some insight into how that motion played out.

This means that, as a newer attorney, local counsel gigs enable you to see a wider range of actions, motions, and cases, than you would see if you only focused on cases where you served as lead counsel.

For China, where «discovery» does not exist, U.S. legal teams are forced to work with local counsel to reluctantly negotiate disclosure of documents for each case.

«Nothing entitles the Defendant to engraft his own conditions on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Local Rules of this Court, or to dispense with them where they fail to suit his counsel's teaching style,» she said in no uncertain terms.

[13] Additionally, some US courts have not extended the attorney — client privilege to communications with non-US in - house counsel located in jurisdictions that do not require them to be licensed attorneys, or where local laws do not apply the attorney — client privilege to such communications.

We supplement them where necessary with local lawyers who are part of our StrongerTogether network of local litigation counsel.

«Even though I'm a Canadian lawyer and qualified here, probably most of my work is U.S. and... we're setting up a lot of sales structure all over the world, so international as well, so the difficulty of working across distances and the difficulty of working in jurisdictions where, as you can imagine, just the different laws in the different jurisdictions and we can't always have local counsel review everything,» he says.

Having graduated from the NUS Law School in 1991 on a Public Service Commission Local Merit Scholarship, Nizam started his legal career as Deputy Public Prosecutor / State Counsel at the Commercial Affairs Department, where he prosecuted high - profile corporate and market misconduct cases including insider trading, market rigging and fraud.

If the Borrower's attorney is not licensed to practice in the state where the property is located, the Borrower must retain local counsel in that state to give the enforceability and state law opinions.

Phone your local churches next and see if they offer free counseling services or if they know where a struggling couple could find some help.

In addition to her private practice, she is the Co-Director and Supervisor of a local counseling nonprofit (The Place Within) where she supervises interns on their path to licensure.

The local Drouin program provides a community work site for clients on corrections orders to complete their hours and we can also offer our clients access to our other programs where appropriate eg: - Men's group, parenting programs, referrals for D&A counselling, Men's behavioural change programs and Psych reports / referrals through our Doctors service.

Where it is not accomplished on a statewide level, training programs should utilize the Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual as available from the National Association, and if training is at the local Board level, the professional standards procedures of the Board as reviewed and certified to the local Board by legal counsel to ensure due process consistent with law.

For more information on why incorporating in a state where you do no business may be a bad idea, find local counsel.