Sentences with phrase «much litigation on»

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His research on U.S. patent litigation estimates that as much as 75 percent to 80 percent of patents are junk.

He went on to suggest that Gawker could have withstood the litigation if it weren't «a bad business that didn't make much money.»

I also think that, given that there is current, on - going litigation the call by some for mediation is at worst disingenuous and at best mis - guided as so much has to happen before I personally would feel comfortable sitting across from those that have hurt you and then make myself vulnerable to them once again.

I believe there is some litigation related to this ongoing (need to readup more on that) and if the courts so decide then maybe the UFC will be forced to treat them as «Employees» and thus forced to provide much better healthcare coverage atleast.

Joseph Viteritti's Feature essay «Vouchers on Trial» tells us that even a decision allowing the Cleveland program to proceed will be followed by much litigation over the many state - created «walls of separation.»

Much of the litigation, particularly early on, centered on the issue of funding equity.

Despite the fact that there has been much litigation with parents prevailing on the issue of inclusive preschools and much guidance from the Department of Education, this issue continues to be very prevalent.

The focus on how much different school districts spend, in school finance litigation and legislative deliberation, he added, «appears misguided.»

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

The bigger institutions are much less likely to deviate from their official policies on the matter, mainly to protect themselves from potential litigation.

That's the crux of much of the mortgage litigation that's going on around the country, so you want to be aware of it if you've got a mortgage and are headed to bankruptcy.

Eventually, and after much litigation among all three carriers, Aloha flew its last passenger flights on March 31, 2008.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

According to Riverkeeper, those dates are very likely sooner than what could have been achieved through litigation, which could have dragged on much longer, with no guarantee of success.

But the role of this new brand of mentor is much more than dispensing pointers on pulling together court - friendly litigation.

In Canada, most medium - to large - sized law firms depend on commercial legal work, rather than litigation, and hence there is much less emphasis here on eDiscovery.

Winkler has spent much of his career on the bench pushing for improved access to fair, timely, and affordable civil litigation in the justice system and he continues to fight that battle.

As he kicked off the mediation over the distribution of Nortel's almost $ 9 billion in assets in April, he reminded a room full of bankruptcy lawyers that their aim should be on getting as much of that to creditors, including the company's pensioners, rather than frittering it all away on long - term litigation.

A firm that «advertises» their law firm staff, particularly with paralegals and litigation support / technical staff serves the public much better than to hide the fact that attorneys are not the only folks who will be performing assignments on their matters.

The Americans have made quite a mess of their legal system -LRB-(1) far too many lawyers per capita, (2) far too much useless and immeasurably costly and roiling litigation, and (3) allowing the «dysfunctional» and «invidious» title insurance industry to rip away, through grossly unfair business practices, most of the conveyancing work from the real estate bar to the great cost of the public and great harm to the title system), but on the issue of rejecting ABS, they have got it right.

Like the Miller / Santos litigation much is about the process and constitutional transparency but at the same time we have to plan on departing from the EU.

There was a lot of pride when he was appointed to the Supreme Court and all the much more so now that he's appointed chief justice,» says Louis Charette, a partner at Lavery lawyers who worked with Wagner on construction and professional liability litigation files in the litigation team at the firm until Wagner was appointed to the bench in 2004.

Judge Carton has not been on the bench much lately, but the opportunity to nip in the bud what will undoubtedly be years of foolish litigation about candy wrappers was too enticing for His [Fake] Honor to pass up.

Much of his practice focuses on large - scale commercial litigation, often with a significant international element, involving conflicts of law and foreign law systems as well as issues of jurisdiction.

Our focus is on successful litigation and trial practice, including automobile wrecks and other catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, work injuries, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, and disputes over insurance, land, commercial business, and much more.

Pro bono is definitely on the agenda at V&E, though transactional lawyers — who of course make up the majority of the firm — thought it «much easier to find litigation work.»

While much of his practice has focused on the litigation of mass / toxic tort matters, product liability and premises liability, Tim has also handled cases arising out of maritime and port operations.

The initially promised affordability of the «unitary patent» and Unified Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» here).

For litigation associates «there's almost too much training, to the point where we were still being trained in April, and by that point I'd learned it on the job already!»

As I said before I feel very privileged to be able to practise maritime litigation in a place like Gibraltar, which has such a rich tradition in this area, partly because of its geography, but also because of our practical and effective legal system which is based on the English legal system and which is so much more efficient than that of neighbouring countries.

Sure, we could see the decline of heavy litigation which supports much of the UK eDiscovery industry, but I have been predicting that anyway thanks to high costs, civil procedure rules which are not fit for purpose, a wet (and disgruntled) judiciary, and a wholly ineffective, not to say deliberately destructive, attitude on the part of the government and the Ministry of Justice.

One example where the original wording of the Directive has been used without further explanation or example, necessitating much litigation to clear things up, is on the question of whether TUPE applies to the sale of the business of an insolvent company.

In short, much of the litigation that I assisted with and performed on my own was construction and development related.

On litigation I haven't done as much work in terms of trying to get either flat fee, or to not exceed numbers for different portions of litigation, but certainly I think that's something I might be interested in, if I was going out to look for a new firm, rather... Rely on litigation context is understanding how a firm bills and how an individual attorney billOn litigation I haven't done as much work in terms of trying to get either flat fee, or to not exceed numbers for different portions of litigation, but certainly I think that's something I might be interested in, if I was going out to look for a new firm, rather... Rely on litigation context is understanding how a firm bills and how an individual attorney billon litigation context is understanding how a firm bills and how an individual attorney bills.

He notes, for example, that «much of our litigation is done on a contingency fee basis, and this is very attractive for the public and gives even the poorest person great access to justice particularly from the tort bar.»

This adversarial disadvantage for the self - represented party is compounded by the fact that fully represented parties usually have access to much larger legal budgets in order to keep a self - represented party mired in an endless swamp of motions, applications, and assorted procedural shenanigans, with all the attendant litigation risks and run - up on costs that flow from such conduct.

Meanwhile, litigation funders will no doubt also wish to collect as much data as possible on a matter and the potential lawyers involved before committing funds to a dispute.

Plaintiff hit with big verdicts and the drug company starts looking at getting rid of the uncedrtainty on their balance sheets of so much litigation.

My point, in a nutshell, is that much of what we call legal work for the public interest is essentially selfserving: Lawyers use public interest litigation to promote their own agendas, social and political — and (on a wider plane) to promote the power and the role of the legal profession itself.

In its green paper on Private Redress in Competition, the Commission sought to promote private redress as a method of regulation but in the subsequent white paper it has pulled back from much of what it said initially with the public statement that it had specifically rejected introducing US - style litigation process.

As with so much litigation, this case involved conflicting testimony and therefore was decided based on an assessment of the relative credibility of the witnesses.

Drafting legal documents in anticipation of civil litigation is a difficult process when you are new to the court system and, depending on your circumstances, it may be simply too much to ask.

«Based on Ringtail's updated user interface and intuitive administrative setup, document loading occurred much faster than alternative products of this kind on the market and even the previous versions of Ringtail, which I had worked with in connection to investigations and litigations involving terabytes of data,» he says.

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It's important to know how much your legal department has spent or has reserved to spend on outside counsel fees, litigation costs and other expenses related to risk management.

Linda is a much sought after speaker on a wide range of topics in civil litigation, trial advocacy, professional regulation and liability, and employment law and human rights for various continuing education organizations including the Law Society of Upper Canada, Canadian Bar Association of Ontario, the Canadian Institute, Infonex, University of Toronto — Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, Queen's University and the Advocates» Society.

Insurance Disputes: Much of our law firm's work concentrates on insurance law matters and litigation files sourced from insurers.

Also, when a lawsuit is filed, the victim and the victim's lawyer will need to spend much more time on the case because the formal procedural rules of civil litigation will come into play.

With the election year shining a bright light on candidates» business interests, litigation over Donald Trump's chain of golf courses has provided much fodder for Harris.

After much stalling and anticipation Ontario has finally enacted a formal ignition interlock program designed to relieve some of the burden on our courts caused by massive amounts of impaired driving litigation.