Sentences with phrase «much of a law practice»

USC law professor Gillian Hadfield, the main organizer of this conference, noted that much of a law practice involves predictions, but the legal profession has largely shunned this type of quantitative approach.

Not exact matches

These proposals do not affect law firms as much as other businesses given the restrictions on who can be a shareholder of a law practice.

It changed so much about my government outreach work and my practice of law.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common sense and intuition rather than a moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors in judgment.

It «sonly the extremely oppressive regimes of a few countries that practice Sharia Law and force female citizens to cover so much of their bodies (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria).

As Norm Van Brocklin of the Falcons says, «If you do too much scrimmaging in practice, you find people getting into the brother - in - law act — not hitting anyone.»

These factors are generally easily to control and don't require much more than a good understanding of breastfeeding best practices and the law of supply and demand.

Much has been achieved in 22 years, such as the adoption of the revised International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 183 and Recommendation 191 on maternity protection in 2000 — enacting stronger maternity entitlements, more country initiatives, and improving national laws and practices.

Indicator 4 of the World Breastfeeding Trends initiative (WBTi) looks in much more detail at the laws and practices in each country to score them on the maternity protection they offer.

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

His wife had been against it from the beginning, arguing that he would be giving up too much - from hard - earned influence in statewide politics to the benefits of a thriving private law practice.

The former state attorney general is a partner in the Buffalo law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman and now focuses much of his practice on government investigations.

The 36 - year - old Orthodox Jewish lawyer, who formerly practiced corporate law at Rosenman & Colin, considers himself politically moderate and, in the context of the committee, very much a middleman between conflicting interests.

Finally, the experience acquired in a law firm, even if I decided not to remain in private practice, has substantial value in other fields, eliminating much of the risk that IP could become a one - way wrong turn.

Much will change in practice and policy as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaces the law, regulations, and guidance established through NCLB; but two elements of the new legislation stand out: the shift away from federal mandates toward greater state and local authority, and the emphasis on evidence - based school improvement practices.

We demand that NYS change its education laws so teachers can return to the practice of seeing their students as human beings who are so much more than a test score or a robot that must adhere to absurd requirements under the Danielson Rubric in order for their teacher to be judged «effective» or «highly effective.»

Last week Loyola Law School hosted «The Educator as Advocate,» a symposium to discuss topics ranging from the impact of student records on criminal sentencing, school safety versus the over-policing of schools, trauma - informed education practices, and much more.

I defer to people who are more knowledgeable about Section 108 of the copyright law, but my view on this is that you could change 108 to give libraries the rights to do protected digital lending, but it would be much harder in practice than getting an exemption to the anti-hacking law for this purpose.

There is much debate about the ethics of some of these practices but still very few laws regulating any of them.

Mark handled the business side of things and spent as much time writing grants as he did working at his law practice.

While living in Cambridge, Mr. Stone met the artist Robert S. Neuman, whose work he admired so much that, after moving to New York to practice law, he spent much of his working day trying to get Neuman exhibitions and giving free legal advice to artists like Elaine de Kooning.

The excerpts, which present contradictory views on the practice of law enforcement profiling, are printed separately on the front and back of each sheet, much like a newspaper, where an opinion on one side of a page might contradict another on its reverse.

Much of this dirty work is the result of «Sue and Settle» lawsuits, in which friendly Green groups sue the EPA over some technical point in the law knowing full well that a deal has already been struck for the EPA to settle the lawsuity and be thus «forced» to impose heavy burdens on the American people — who have not had their day in court to defend their longstanding practices.

Already, law schools are the subject of much criticism for failing to provide students with practical experience in counseling clients or running a practice.

Among small law firms, I noticed some standout figures that revealed just how much (or how little) time attorneys are spending on tasks other then the practice of law.

Much like practicing law, a lot of work has to go into getting the final result.

Truly, technology is transforming the practice of law, so much so that the ABA now views understanding the benefits and risks of technology as an attorney competency.

«I went to a fantastic law school that I loved that did pretty much nothing to prepare me for practice, other than perhaps I got used to having high standards of working hard.

Increased choice in law school curriculum divorced from a sense of what practice will in fact entail will do little to serve students and much to serve a faculty with little interest in law.

He combined a thriving and prestigious practice with a prolific output of writing and teaching, with much of his work centering on the inter-relationship of international and national law.

But what might be less obvious is that despite high - tech devices and platforms — smartphones, social media, mobile devices, Wi - Fi — much of how law is practiced hasn't changed.

«The legal job market in Canada is expected to see modest gains in the year ahead, with growth in the litigation and corporate law practice areas driving much of the hiring,» according to the guide's overview of trends in Canada.

Practicing law is a whole different kind of stress, but it is much more manageable if you learn to deal with it early on.

For the Court, EU fundamental rights apply in principle, but do not have much impact in practice due to the rules of EU law at issue.

The true measure of leadership of the lawyer managers of today's law firms is their ability to maintain a careful balance between the need to (1) encourage each lawyer's individual initiative, (2) provide for the much needed atmosphere of professional camaraderie, so typical of the partnership type of law practice, and (3) plan and implement financial tools of modern business without which the best practice can fail.

It makes the practice of law so much easier.

The true measure of leadership of the lawyer managers of today's law firm is the ability to maintain a careful balance between the need to (1) encourage each lawyer's individual initiative, (2) provide for the much needed atmosphere of professional camaraderie so typical of the partnership type of law practice, and (3) plan and implement financial tools of modern business without which the best practice can fail.

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.

Rather, their approach was much more theoretical than practical.60 In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, established «a Professorship of Law and Police» at William and Mary College.61 George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and, not coincidentally, the lawyer under whom Jefferson apprenticed, was appointed.62 The purpose of the course of study Wythe taught was less about producing practicing lawyers than it was educating the statesmen of the New Republic.63 Wythe did attempt to blend in some practical training with his lectures and readings through the use of a moot court and a moot legislature, though there is no indication that Wythe required any writing on the part of the students.64

Formulas considering both origination and production must consider the particular structure of the law firm and the nature of its practice: For example, a law firm specializing primarily in insurance defense litigation and operating at a much lower hourly rate can readily afford the luxury of having highly compensated partners who merely originate business without having significant billable time.

Law firm head Simon Resnik himself pointed out the importance of the tablet today saying that the device has brought so much convenience to his practice and to his staff as well.

Noting that there is momentum toward moving some elements of the practice of law to other licensed professionals, the report also beautifully states that much of the work can, and should, be performed only by lawyers:

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The practice of law is challenging, much more so than the public has any appreciation for.

Erin Gerstenzang: I think one of the significant challenges, or the significant challenge, of being solo and why probably a lot of people avoid it is this idea that you have to be running a successful business, which is very much different than the practice of law.

Anyone who's been particularly completely solo, no staff support, anything, knows how much of a grind that is and it can be really really lonely in the legal business and then family law in particular, which is what I practice, so custody and divorce, it's dealing with peoples emotions all day long and their crappy situations all day long and doing that as a solo wasn't very fulfilling.

Not that I don't enjoy practicing law by any means, but that is, if you ask me, I'm much more interested in building successful businesses throughout the course of my life whatever those look like and right now happens to be a law firm working in family law and, like I said, I enjoy it, but at the end of the day, I'd love to not have the revenue generation rely on me so I can do more of that other, but until we see those scales tip, the majority of my work will still be on the client side and the billing side.

Everyone from practicing lawyers to professional legal educators were all working towards providing the much - needed innovation in the practice of law today.