Sentences with phrase «number of firms involved»

The enthusiasm of Chinese tech giants is evident in the increasing number of firms involved in the sector.

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However, part of the increase in corporate sponsorship worldwide is attributable to the number of small - and medium - sized firms that are becoming involved.

But he also catalogues a dizzying number of times the firm was involved in, if not the cause of, corporate disaster: McKinsey men endorsed the strategy that led Swissair into bankruptcy; its consultants pushed hard for the disastrous AOL — Time Warner merger in 2000; and, in 1995, McKinsey even advised J. P. Morgan to get out of the lending business.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.

The police operation, which involved help from Microsoft and ESET, a Slovakian cyber security firm, was significant both for the number of computers infected worldwidew and because Andromeda had been used over a number of years to distribute scores of new viruses.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

Republicans familiar with the operation are careful to point out that while Todd and Anderson will lead the effort, a number of other consulting firms will also be involved.

Given the relatively small number of home inspectors and controversies involving them, the majority of law firms understandably have little or no acquaintance with home inspection law, regulations, and Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors decisions and precedent, or with the three national Standards of Practice adopted in Kentucky and interpretations of them.

A number of the involved firms — refineries, storage companies, etc — are in line to get massive tax breaks related to changes to their facilities to handle the tar sands.

The overwhelming majority of people involved in the US solar sector are involved with installation and maintenance; a large number of firms also manufacture subsidiary products, such as racks for mounting the panels.

Hogan Lovells is one of an increasing number of law firms attempting to get their staff involved in charity

This phase involves the lawyer management to survey all or a representative number of lawyers through personal interviews, questionnaires or a combination of both to obtain their perceptions about internal and external trends that will have an effect on the firm.

However, law firms struggle with identifying conflicts due to the large amounts of data and number of staff members involved with highly manual processes.

Polly's experience includes advising a number of national firms of surveyors in relation to commercial and residential over-valuations and fraud (including development sites, industrial warehouses, hotels, property portfolios and agricultural land and residential property), advising D&O insurers on a large criminal claim against the directors of a high profile international company in India, and advising London market insurers on coverage in relation to a number of related claims involving fraudulent solicitors.

After presiding over a near - infinite number of matters involving Prenda, he decided to drop the bomb, or photon torpedo, on the troll - tastic law firm.

«The case involved a pair of Fort Lauderdale personal injury lawyers whose advertisements showed a spike - collared pit bull in their law firm's logo and prominently displayed the firm's telephone number: 1 -800-PIT-BULL.»

A disturbing number of the hours I billed as an attorney came about because my firm got involved in a case where a lawyer with a creative theory of business - competition - through - litigation initiated a suit that ultimately cost his or her client more money in the long run.

The information provided does not tell me when the copying was done, the number of pages involved and whether or not the work was done in the firm as opposed to an outside provider.

Currently, our firm is involved in a number of prestigious organizations throughout the legal industry.

A growing number of New York City - based firms — including perennial Wall Street giants Cravath Swaine & Moore; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and Sullivan & Cromwell — are grabbing a slice of some of the larger energy deals, especially those involving private equity firms and investment banks.

All of us involved with the legal profession need to remind ourselves that solos and small firms dominate the numbers of the profession and that the world of Bay Street represents a small and atypical minority that can appear so dominant that it distorts perceptions.

It was used recently by Barclays, which received 100 % discount on its fine for cartel behaviour relating to the pricing of loan products for professional services firms, and by a number of construction companies involved in a major bid - rigging case who received reduced fines for their co-operation.

As the costs and risks involved in international arbitration continue to grow, an increasing number of business and law firms use international arbitration funding as a way to alleviate risk and remove the costs of arbitration from their balance sheet.

The computation involves allocating direct and indirect expenses of the firm to each matter, using allocation methods appropriate for each type of expense, subtracting those matter expenses from fees collected and dividing the result by the notional number of partners working on the matter (which is computed using partner hours for the matter).

As increasing numbers of law firms attempt to get their staff involved in charitable activities, Frances Ivens speaks to Hogan Lovells about its ambitious new initiative

Since that time, she has been involved in many firm activities in a number of different roles.

Polson said that rather than looking to build a «super-lawyer» — one who can code and project manage — the future for firms was expanding the number of professions involved in the delivery of legal services.

Atherton Godfrey Solicitors has a highly rated clinical negligence practice based in Doncaster, which handles claims involving birth injury, misdiagnosis, oncology, GP care and fatality, and is one of a small number of local firms with the ability to handle birth injury cases under contract with the Legal Aid Agency.

The firm's attorneys have extensive experience handling premises liability matters involving claims for injuries sustained on properties due to a number of different factors, from pre-suit through trial, including:

Because of the numbers involved, the firm elected to limit the survey to its partners.

Many other asbestos firms have a small number of lawyers who handle a large number of cases that they can not possibly be personally involved in due to time constraints.

It involves a law firm customer of ours that was selected by a prominent insurance carrier to be one of only a select number of approved outside firms in a specific state.

Clark & Trevithick's Partnership Dispute & Resolution Practice Group has been involved in a number of partnership / joint venture disputes as well as family and closely held corporation disputes involving real estate partnerships and joint ventures, law firm partnerships and closely held businesses.

Our firm also handles a limited number of product liability / product defect pharmaceutical and medical device cases around the country involving:

In light of the nature of asbestos litigation, which often involves a limited number of plaintiffs» law firms repeatedly asserting the same or similar claims against defendants, clients facing extensive asbestos litigation are positioned to benefit from Thompson Hine's SmartPaTH ®, a service delivery approach that leverages legal project management, process efficiency, flexible staffing and value - based pricing to better align our services with clients» needs.

Kate naturally gravitated to a firm specialising in insurance as a number of her family have been involved in this market one way or another.

Our firm also handles a limited number of product liability / product defect pharmaceutical and medical device cases not only in Maryland but around the country involving:

The firm has also been involved with a number of major redevelopment projects in Ottawa, including LeBreton Flats, Zibi and Greystone Village.

Each of the factors involved in law firm culture is made up of a number of components, some of which are more complex than others.

One of the marks of our success is the number of other lawyers we advise, as well as the number of successful moves in which we can claim to have been involved — we are a trusted confidential adviser to many firms and individual lawyers.

Count Six similarly lists a number of statements made or actions taken by Attorney Schoenecker that involved dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, in violation of SCR 20:8.4 (c): [8]-LSB-...](4) establishing a solo private law practice while employed by the Clair law firm without disclosing such practice to his employer or providing an accounting of the legal fees earned in that solo practice...

It also represents a number of brokers, agents, and adjusting firms involved in the insurance industry.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.

For example, to measure engagement of the game over time, the law firm would look at the average number of actions taken that involve the desired behavior, the number of players taking those actions and how often they return to do the same action and the level of satisfaction that the players provide as feedback on their enjoyment of the gamified platform.

The firm is also involved in a large number of research projects, which call for partnerships with researchers, and negotiating agreements, as well as intellectual property issues.

The sheer number of documents involved means that some firms can not deal with large litigation cases.

Perceptions of conflict within your firm reduce loyalty, regardless of the length of the relationship or the number of people involved on both sides of it.

So we have engaged a number of the lawyers at that firm who have been very involved with our litigation over the course of a number of years to sort of be an independent observer in terms of how that part of our risk - management framework has developed.

That's Michael Cao, CEO of bitcoin mining firm ZoomHash, one of a number of bitcoin miners currently involved in a months - long dispute over power costs with a public utility provider in Chelan County, Washington.

In its official statement, the Australia - based fund manager said that Facebook had been involved in a number of controversies and reputational issues, focusing particularly on the recent privacy issue involving British firm Cambridge Analytica which misused the personal data of around 50 million Facebook users without their consent.