Sentences with phrase «new legal point»

President Trump and his new legal point man, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, are off to an explosive start together, admitting what Trump had only recently denied — that he reimbursed his personal lawyer for hush money paid to a porn actress before the election.

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From a legal and regulatory point of view, that's a significant change, bringing for example new requirements for financial transparency.

The complaint points out in paragraph 31 that Cohen had a legal responsibility under New York Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys to communicate to Donald Trump all material information regarding the Stormy hush money agreement.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

At this point, the fight to bring legal sports betting to New Jersey is caught in judicial limbo.

He has also pledged to ensure the laws of the state are enforced, regardless of whether he personally agrees with them, but points out that same - sex marriage is — at this point — not legal in New York.

The legal scholar Julie E. Cohen points out the parallels with the era of industrialisation where transformations in technology and the accompanying social upheavals brought with them new threats to human freedom.

While there are a number of expenditures that raise questions, several experts consulted by City & State made the point that the legal definition of what constitutes a legitimate use of campaign funds in New York State is extremely broad, and that even expenses that seemed like personal use on their face could actually be allowable based on the letter of the law.

@Brythan - all fair points, though the point of the example was to indicate that there was existing legal authority to proceed with another 58 miles of barrier and that the Executive Order wasn't creating new law.

Perez pointed to Trump's rhetoric toward Muslims during the 2016 presidential race and said the new executive order will not survive legal scrutiny.

When asked about what the legislature has done to protect New Yorkers from the policies of Donald Trump, both Cuomo's office and a spokesperson for the IDC pointed to the $ 10 million set aside in the budget for an immigrant defense fund to ensure that undocumented immigrants have access to legal representation.

According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the US, with 58 percent in support, tying the high point in Gallup's 46 years of polling on the subject.

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Mancheno pointed to a study by the Immigrant Defense Project that surveyed 235 legal providers throughout New York State.

Jacques David, an attorney for The Legal Aid Society and member of the Brooklyn Voters Alliance, pointed out in a letter to The Suffolk Times last summer that New York ranks 41st out of 50 states in voter participation.

And at one point, the legal filing refers to Cater as «Springs,» which would appear to mean Gordon Springs, a New York firefighter Liggieri is representing in another case.

The controversial sport where men and women use multiple types of martial arts to knock each other out, submit each other with jiu jitsu or win on points, is now legal in every state except New York and Connecticut.

Bronx Congressman Jose Serrano and Upper Manhattan Congressman Adriano Espaillat pledged today to sign onto any forthcoming city legal action against President Donald Trump «s new executive order cutting so - called «sanctuary cities» off from federal funding — and said that he is even willing to resort to marching to get his point across.

The DOE in this case is the Department of Education in New York City, which the article points out «last year spent $ 116 million on tuition and legal expenses related to special - education students whose parents sued the DOE on the grounds that the public - school options were inadequate.

The 1LE is street - legal, with air conditioning and all that, but it's an absolutely dedicated track rat with a suspension developed by Multimatic (the company that builds the new Ford GT), and many of the mounting points on the ZL1 that are cushioned by a nice rubber bushing are virtually metal - to - metal on the ZL1 1LE.

And Simon Pulman, one of my favorite commentators on transmedial issues in New York, wrote well to the point following StoryWorld's legal panel, in Storyworld: Practical Legal Consideralegal panel, in Storyworld: Practical Legal ConsideraLegal Considerations

A possible con if you might need a new loan or credit account at that point (e.g., to cover expensive medical care, legal judgments, etc.).

This option involves everything the first option entails, except now you can play Call of Duty Classic with your brand new pair of night vision goggles until you get evicted for blowing your rent money on the mother - flippin» Prestige Edition of MW2, or until you fry your retinas to the point of legal blindness because you're forced to wear them all the donkey - kickin'time to make the purchase financially viable.

When Jay O'Hara and his co-captain Ken Ward moored their lobster boat in the unloading dock of Brayton Point Power Station in New England, blockading a 40,000 ton coal shipment in the process, they were fully prepared to face the legal consequences of their actions (not to mention the usual tired old complaints about eco-hypocrisy).

We'll cover all of the major legal stuff and point out pitfalls to avoid so that your new business can be a long - lasting success, no matter how you define it.

An article makes this point today in The Boston Globe, quoting as its authority on the Massachusetts legal scene the New York - based blogger Elie Mystal of Above the Law.

Ashe approached this challenge as a business problem versus a legal problem and provided Nike with a response that include structured workflow, new and innovative pricing models, unique SLA's, and a variety of legal services at different price points.

For anyone who doubts the headline of Ambrogi's article in Legal Technology (a Law.com pub), he points out today that «podcast» is the word of the year according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

He also points to the New York courts» plan (pdf) to use non-lawyers to help deliver legal services to low - income individuals.

The Legal Writing Blog and the Law Librarian Blog point out in these posts that the new Google Dictionary, which was quietly rolled out in December 2009, presents a formidable competitor not only for other Web dictionaries such as Answers.com, but also potentially to niche lexicons like Black's Law Dictionary.

In the wake of a New York Times article pointing out that five years have elapsed since the last time Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at a high court oral argument, legal observers have been weighing in on the significance of this lengthy silence.

'» Forrest Mosten pointed out, «market demand rather than societal policy has been the source of [the] growth of new service products and opportunities to improve legal access.»

The BC Court of Appeal released the seminal VJF case but a new BC Supreme Court decision points out that there are powerful legal interpretation reasons to exterminate the presumption of advancement in British Columbia.

The only thing the Uber model has in common with the old taxi cab model is that it moves people from point A to point B. Maybe its time for a new legal delivery model entirely.

These documents provide a sound starting point from which CFO Kevin Ball and other executives can begin negotiations with new customers, allowing the company to save considerably on legal fees.

In my ABA Journal article, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman makes this very point: «Even with whatever success we've had with public funding of legal services and pro bono work by lawyers, there is still a gaping hole in our system of providing legal services to the poor and people of limited means.»

What we discovered is that EasyPayJD scores on each of Bob's points to offer attorneys a simple, profitable, transparently priced, new twist on an old concept, that has been vetted by real attorneys and legal billing companies.

... the torture memos were written not to define «torture» with respect to new situations where the statute was unclear; rather they were written to allow the CIA to get around the legal ban on torture, even to the point of arguing that the torture statute would be unconstitutional if applied to persons acting under the direction of the President as commander - in - chief.

We need new approaches in the quiver of access of justice services to address the vast majority of legal problems experienced by the public that are, from the point of view of the people experiencing them, serious and difficult to resolve and that have negative consequences if they are not dealt with.

I know the legal publishers primarily two of the multinationals have found it incumbent upon themselves to promote the rule of law; however, as Gary Rodrigues has pointed out in his post the legal publishing industry is primed for change and the smaller publishers appear destined to become the new masters of the legal publishing universe.

As I pointed out in a column last year at Above the Law, three conferences form a triumvirate of national legal tech conferences that draw the most attention and biggest headcounts: ILTACON, which is just around the corner, Aug. 13 - 17, in Las Vegas; Legaltech New York, which is Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, 2018; and ABA Techshow, which this year is March 7 - 10, 2018, in Chicago.

He points to the relatively new legal operations section within the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) as a «good indication we are in the beginning of the middle» in terms of law departments ascending the CounselLink Legal Department Maturity Mlegal operations section within the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) as a «good indication we are in the beginning of the middle» in terms of law departments ascending the CounselLink Legal Department Maturity MLegal Department Maturity Model.

Many will point to «certified» project managers on their staff, but often such «legal project managers» are new to the legal industry or have never worked on a legal matter before being hired by the law firm or legal department.

Stratton points out that insurance defense litigation firms have been operating under layered cost controls since the late 1980s (unlike corporate attorneys) and that they've been using detailed litigation plans for at least a decade before the new (fashionable) legal project management structures rolled out by corporate law departments.

Introduced in beta at this year's ABA TECHSHOW conference in Chicago, the new Accounts Payable Module was a major point of interest with eager lawyers and other legal professionals concerned with the very specific challenges law firms face when managing accounts payable.

Mangan points to Microsoft's new Canadian data centre, allowing for data to be stored in Canada — a requirement for certain legal work.

But the point should not be lost that FindLaw's index has failed to keep up with new sites of interest to legal professionals.

A new virtual legal assistant, LARA, uses artificial intelligence and millions of data points to help consumers find legal help and get answers to legal questions.

But as one respondent pointed out, whether governments increase or decrease budgets for legal aid, there will always be areas of the law never covered leaving a hole in access to justice but also offering opportunities for practitioners to get involved in their communities in new and different ways.

When lawyers who are new to Twitter ask me how to find other lawyers to follow, I point them to either of two directories, LexTweet, operated by the folks at legal blog company LexBlog, and LegalBirds, part of the Justia legal portal.