Sentences with phrase «number of law departments»

An increasing number of law departments and law firms are integrating legal project managers into the matter management process to facilitate adequate planning, monitoring, communication and issue resolution between matter teams.

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The sheriff's department was still counting the exact number of arrested, Keller said, and planned to release a statement explaining the use of pepper spray by law enforcement.

The Vatican recalled Capella, the number four in its Washington embassy, after the US State Department notified it on August 21 of a «possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images» by one of its diplomats in Washington.

A study by Australia's Department of Health last year concluded that the number of smokers fell by 108,228 people from December 2012 (when the law changed) to September 2015.

Senate Bill Number 5153 - A, entitled: «AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to probation officers in the Suffolk county department of probation»

The number of individuals who registered their guns is 24,000 and many of these are law - enforcement officials mandated to comply by their department.

In June 2016, the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law co-sponsored a study with the NYPD to assess sentiments regarding police body cameras, part of an effort to influence department policy as body cameras become worn by an increasing number of patrol officers.

State Department of Education commissioner Maryellen Elia said in a statement that her office is currently reviewing the new law and has «a number of questions» about evaluations, assessments and accountability.

According to the state Department of Motor Vehicles statistics, there has been an increase statewide in the number of violations with regard to law 1198.

«The accountability regulations in the Swedish Environmental Code are intended to prevent the leaking of large amounts of pellets, especially in areas like the one around Orust and Tjörn where there are a number of nature reserves,» says Lena Gipperth, Professor of Environmental Law at the Department of Law.

«This study evaluated the number of minors who visited an emergency department over a two year period for injuries resulting from contact with law enforcement and demonstrates this issue comes with significant financial, if not human, cost,» says Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM, Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UH Rainbow and the study's senior investigator.

BPRC housing and animal care procedures comply with Dutch law, European Directive 2010 / 63 / EU, and with the «Standards for Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign Institutions», identification number A5539 - 01, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services of the US National Institutes of Health.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — June 23 — The Milwaukee - area office of Great Expectations has violated Wisconsin's no - call law, exaggerated the number of participants» marriages and misrepresented its prices, according to a lawsuit filed by the state Justice Department.

States including California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, and Nebraska have ruled out state takeovers for schools in restructuring, because either state law does not permit it or the state department of education lacks the capacity to manage a significant number of schools.

This latest report from the investigative arm of Congress examines implementation and accountability issues for a number of agencies and departments involving the $ 787 billion stimulus law, formally the American...

Students aren't taking advantage of tutoring options under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are faltering when it comes to notifying parents about school transfer options under the law, and the number of Title I schools identified as needing improvement has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a study released last week by the Department of Education.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

It is true that there were guidelines initiated by the federal Department of Education under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 that no doubt put pressure on the states not to have a disproportionate number of students in special education and the law actually put limits on the percentage that could be exempted from the required achievement assessments.

States had been pressuring the Department of Education to do something, because, without congressional action, a huge number of school districts would have been labeled as failing under the law.

As every school administrator is required to understand, as a result of Connecticut State Law, the Connecticut Department of Education, the Connecticut State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly's Legislative Review Committee adopted State Regulation number 10 - 145d - 400b.

The law further required that no later than February 1, 2012, the Connecticut State Department of Education submit a report on «the number of verified acts of bullying in the state, an analysis of the responsive action taken by school districts and any recommendations it may have regarding additional activities or funding to prevent bullying in schools and improve school climate.»

The leveling off in distracted driving - related deaths coincided with the U.S. Department of Transportation's national anti-distracted driving campaign and numerous other public awareness efforts, as well as an increasing number of state anti-distracted driving laws.

Several hundred ebook titles from the LexisNexis collection are available for purchase in the Kindle Store, featuring a number of categories within the non-fiction department under «Law.»

I've done a number of these setups, mostly for one big law firm here in town, and now their in - house IT department give my name out to employees who need someone to do the in - home integration.

«It is unconscionable that instead of helping these borrowers, vast numbers of Corinthian victims are currently being hounded by the Department's debt collectors... all to pay fraudulent debts that, under federal law and the Department's own policies, are likely eligible for discharge and thus, invalid,» she wrote.

SoFi Lending Corp. is licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the California Financing Law, license number 6054612.

In 2006, the ASPCA will expand its Humane Law Enforcement (HLE) Department, allowing for more investigations and arrests for animals cruelty in the New York metropolitan area, while also increasing the scope and number of training seminars given by this agency to law enforcement and animal protection agencies across the countLaw Enforcement (HLE) Department, allowing for more investigations and arrests for animals cruelty in the New York metropolitan area, while also increasing the scope and number of training seminars given by this agency to law enforcement and animal protection agencies across the countlaw enforcement and animal protection agencies across the country.

Contra Costa County Animal Services Department is committed to protecting the health, safety and well - being of all people and animals in our community through enforcement of state and local laws, providing compassionate care for every animal regardless of its temperament or condition, and reducing the number of animals that enter our County shelters.

Would the existing language in the PUPS Bill have the unintended consequence of dramatically reducing the number of available dogs that that are specifically bred and trained for use by law enforcement throughout the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense, such as bomb sniffing dogs?

Now, this law places some requirements on New Jersey pet stores — for example, pet shops currently may not sell cats and dogs from breeders who are not licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or if the breeders have a number of Animal Welfare Act violations.

Records shall (i) include a description of the companion animal, including species, color, breed, sex, approximate weight, age, reason for release, owner's or finder's name, address, and telephone number, and license number or other identifying tags or markings, as well as disposition of the companion animal, and (ii) be made available upon request to the Department, animal control officers, and law - enforcement officers at mutually agreeable times.

From the «let's call it The Pause» department: While the number of climate laws and policies worldwide has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, from just 72 in 1997 to 1,500 today, the pace of passing new legislation has recently significantly slowed, according to a new study.

The number of miles of public roads and streets most recently certified by the Department of Transportation as eligible for distribution of liquid fuels funds under the act of June 1, 1956 (1955 P.L. 1944, No. 655), referred to as the Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation Law.

«Glyphosate's days are numbered,» said Paul Achitoff, a lawyer for Earthjustice, an environmental law firm that is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in part over concerns about heavy glyphosate use.

Andy is particularly interested in law - related civic education and for a number of years has taught constitutional law and history to school teachers at summer institutes jointly sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education, Notre Dame of Maryland University, and the California - based Center for Civic Education.

You also have an important cadre of allies: Your key law firms have for years been stockpiling operational numbers about your work that will help you increase and demonstrate your department's value to your company.

Moran: If you are growing as a legal department and you have a number of law firms that are providing invoices with a significant number of detailed line items, that's when you consider an LBR service.

«What undermines the methodological rigor is the high number of non-lawyers, or officers not in the law department, whose responses were included.

I have witnessed this in a number of national employment law departments over recent years.

However, we are seeing an increasing number of large law departments in the Canadian market use offshore legal outsourcing services.

Miami, FL (Law Firm Newswire) February 21, 2017 — According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of deadly workplace injuries have increased nationwide.

Since completing his clerkship, he has been in the private practice of law for almost all of the rest of his career, except for a period of about five years when he held a number of positions, including Associate Director of Special Investigations, at the United States Department of Energy.

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The Legal Social Mobility Partnership (LSMP)-- a joint enterprise between a number of leading law firms and in - house departments offering work experience to sixth - formers — will now provide opportunities to more than 200 students across 40 participating law firms and corporates in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester.

For the past several years, a number of law students have been working collaboratively with students from the Faculty of Social Work and various departments within the University of Winnipeg (Criminal Justice, Conflict Resolution & more) at the Legal Help Centre (link in post).

There are a number of highly regarded, successful firms that have leading family law departments.

As growing numbers of general counsel are hiring legal operation chiefs to realign their legal departments, law firms are at greater risk of being left behind, according to a recent survey.

But despite the gaggle of surveys that have pronounced on this subject, the number of firms that a given law department fires each year is probably a small fraction of all of its law firm relationships.