Sentences with phrase «more large law»

Interestingly, the study found on a personal basis, more large law partners owned an Apple iPad ® (72 %) than owned a PC laptop (60 %), which mirrors the consumer trends.

But he thinks that more large law firm attorneys may be expressing unhappiness with the agreements, given the attention that high - profile sexual harassment allegations have brought to mandatory arbitration.

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The vast majority of partners believe it is likely that more large law firms will collapse over the next two years, according to new Legal Week research.

Not exact matches

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

In that same study, small businesses were more enthusiastic about the law than large ones, perhaps because without state - mandated paid leave, they would have a hard time matching the paid - leave benefits of the more generous larger companies.

When the bulk of our immigration laws were revised in the early 1990s, the intention was to accommodate more highly skilled immigrants who worked in large, conventionally structured businesses.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

A large body of law and custom in the United States holds that because employers have far more power over their employees than businesses do over their customers, they must provide them with far greater protections — not least, a minimum wage and overtime pay.

Another benefit of working with a large law firm is that it has more clout.

Apart from all of the positive rumors, although, there's one more reason for which we is likely to be set for a severe improve within the largest cryptocurrency's worth for the long term — laws.

Combined profit at the six largest U.S. banks jumped last year to the highest level since 2006, even as the firms allocated more than $ 18 billion to deal with claims they broke laws or cheated investors.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Dentons is the largest global law firm with about 7,000 lawyers worldwide serving more than 125 offices across 50 - plus countries (www.dentons.com).

Law enforcement has also become more adept at infiltrating the seedy underbelly of the crypto sphere, not to mention keeping a sharp eye on large - scale transactions.

«The cost of the fight is up more than 200 % than previous fights, maybe 300 %, and it just becomes a law of large numbers where you say you can't possibly get a return on it — it would be a loss leader in a way,» explained Smith regarding the limited number of company - operated restaurants that will show the fight.

The Bible certainly contains detailed instructions — e.g. the specifically Jewish Law of the Old Testament (although large parts of that are actually case law and as such are intended as examples to be more widely applied through common sensLaw of the Old Testament (although large parts of that are actually case law and as such are intended as examples to be more widely applied through common senslaw and as such are intended as examples to be more widely applied through common sense).

The impetus was Cardinal Bernard Law's charge that the CTSA, the largest and most prestigious association of Catholic theologians in the United States, had become little more than a «wasteland» of dissent against official Church teachings.

Since Islam does not make a distinction between the secular and the religious, and since a large part of the Muslim world has but recently attained political independence and is now playing a significant role in world affairs, this re-examination of Islamic law is all the more urgently needed.

John F. Kennedy promised: «We seek to strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its financial problems, to make it a more effective instrument for peace, to develop it into a genuine world security system... capable of resolving disputes on the basis of law, of insuring the security of the large and the small, and of creating conditions under which arms can finally be abolished... This will require a new effort to achieve world law».

For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor in the global evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.

Their law permits them, as a temporary expedient, not to impose it in full in countries where they are in a minority: but in areas within that country which they consider to be Muslim territory and therefore part of the Umma, like large parts of Bradford, say, or certain parts of London, more of Sharia law will be imposed (unknown to the rest of us) than in others.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Given the general tendency to confuse the two, it is important to understand the limited sense in which natural law or moral philosophy is useful, indeed indispensable, to constitutional adjudication, and the larger, more free - hand sense in which it is pernicious.

As media structures are increasingly controlled by the laws of economics, they become larger and more monopolistic, and at the same time less and less related to any system of morality.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

Even more significantly, this persistent Mosaic tradition in law also would appear as partially responsible for the high ethical presuppositions which, by and large, pervade the legal framework.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Jethro was a Midianite, and more particularly a Kenite, that is, a member of a sub-clan of the larger tribe of Midian (Judges 4:11 - «Hobab» is a third name, along with Reuel, in Exodus 2:18, and Jethro, for Moses» father - in - law).

On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....

Through experience, I had reached the conviction that the council was on the way to becoming a bureaucratic system, an enormous machine that, the larger it grew, the more it conformed to sociological laws of organization, rather than obeying the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

The largest Nation in existence at its time Rome, the very same that put him to the cross later Bowed to him... Thousands witnessed his Miracles and converted on the spot... and this is all recorded historically... unlike many religions around the globe, this was witnessed and recorded... yet you refuse to believe it... But you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and believe what a scientist postulated... a theory that requires as much if not more faith to believe in than Any religion... A theory that if you believe... you must throw out the natural laws of Physics...... But you call me stupid for believing in God... Wow... My bad i guess i should believe in Magical particles that always existed that randomly exploded and caused everything to exist....

According to Jamie Wilson, a third - generation Sequoia Orange Co. www.sequoiaorange.com owner and president of Sequoia Orange, the prorate Headquarter: Exeter, Calif. law was something that most citrus producers Employees: 100 to 170 Specialty: Citrus grower loosely followed, even the larger ones, which is why Jamie Wilson, president: the company was surprised when the government «Through proper nutrition for our trees, proper pruning and making filed a lawsuit against his family's company and our trees more healthy, we will other growers.

The required provision of baby changing facilities was a large step towards making public places more accessible for parents and in many countries there are now laws in place to protect the rights of a breastfeeding mother when feeding her child in public.

So instead the law would likely say that they expect a tax to be payed by these large company whenever they process a transaction for a US citizen (actual law would be a bit more complicated since someone living in Germany who buying a service from another German citizen who just happens to also be a US Citizen shouldn't be taxed, but the general idea of calling out which transactions the US claims tax on still applies...)

The GOP has been affected much more than the Democratic Party by the change in the election finance laws, allowing Super PACs to spend arbitrarily large amounts of advertising money to support their preferred candidates.

An optimal size for a country as large as the United States would be approximately 700 delegates, and I would choose them by a more - or-less random lottery, counting on the laws of statistics to generate what would in fact be a more «representative sample» of the public than any election would produce.

In essence, the Conservative approach to English devolution focuses on three themes: a better and more balanced economy; bespoke Growth Deals and decentralisation of powers to (large) cities which choose to have elected mayor; and English Votes for English Laws (EVEL).

For instance, after a Republican Congresswoman's recent press release erroneously called Obama's healthcare law «the largest tax on the American people in history», Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio talk show host, extended this incorrect characterization, declaring that the law constitutes «nothing more than the largest tax increase in the history of the world».

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

Stony Point Town Board votes 4 - 1 to approve the new law EDITORIAL BY GEORGE POTANOVIC, JR., President of Stony Point Action Committee for the Environment (Space) In an effort to curb the increasing clutter of lawn signs and political campaign signs that have become larger and more numerous during each election season, the Stony Point -LSB-...]

«New York, by in large, can always provide more protection of rights and liberties than the U.S. Supreme Court does,» said Vincent Bonventre, an Albany Law School professor and noted court - watcher.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

The law, an amendment to the town's zoning code, allows those who have a property of 75 acres or more to create their own Planned Unit Development district, which could make a large project, like a $ 350 million casino, easier to accommodate.

One way of parsing out parts of a state that must be handled on a large, geographical control basis v. those which can be organized differently, is to distinguish between the idea of a commonwealth which emphasizes the role of taxing and spending as a governmental function versus the regulatory state that monopolizes the use of force and more generally tells people way they can and can not do under the law.

In a statement, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, cast the deal as a blow against «this state's archaic blue laws» and part of a larger, more long - term policy of his administration to support New York's alcohol industry, which he said created «some of the best beer, wine, cider and distilled spirits in the world.»

The sweep generated the largest number of busts in a single sweep in the city's history as a legion of 700 law enforcers flooded more than 100 spots in the New York City Housing Authority complexes in Williamsbridge.

This seems to be as part of that larger picture of trying to be smart about law enforcement and still be aggressive about intervention but also trying to be a little more compassionate and allowing people to continue to live their lives after being part of the criminal justice system.»

Under that very large umbrella, the attorney general could more easily unearth abuses, like the way that outgoing State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx failed to comply with campaign finance laws.