Sentences with phrase «of legal work by»

We are supporting this initiative is developing a framework for classification of legal work by area of law and matter type.

Paralegals reduce the costs of legal work by completing tasks — all under the supervision of an attorney — that would otherwise be done by a lawyer.

Not exact matches

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

However, lately, manufacturers have been responding to such actions by taking legal action instead of working with the research to fix those vulnerabilities.

The court case revealed a series of convoluted legal infractions performed by Amanat and Tuzman in their work with the presently insolvent video - technology company, KIT Digital, a former multi-million dollar leader in the cloud - based video management industry.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rLegal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rLegal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rlegal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rlegal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

The kind of working conditions that lead into this legal danger zone include not just «egregious acts of harassment and bullying» but also chronic stress, excessive demands by managers, and unpaid overtime, wrote the report's author, Dr. Martin Shain of the University of Toronto.

Selling only products that work is required by the basic ethical and legal requirement of «merchantability.»

He's made a fortune from the venture, all the while remaining firmly on the legal side of the business by working on the sidelines and never personally selling weed.

The company claims it was not, however, people protested Uber by deleting their accounts and its app, despite the creation of a legal defense fund for affected drivers that would also pay them even if they're unable to work.

With lobbyists working in dozens of states, the efforts by leading daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators — most notably DraftKings and FanDuel — to clarify the legal status of their game have resulted in some successes across the country.

During her time in DC, Nicole worked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform, where she helped lead research and communications initiatives to address the litigation challenges faced by businesses across all industries.

In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz and Richard Spoor Attorneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, on Thursday reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.

Delivering a legal opinion requires a certain level of work by company counsel, which increases legal fees.

All of the new cases, like Mr. Hogan's, were brought by Charles J. Harder, a Los Angeles - based litigator, working on a contingency basis, who has most likely run up huge legal bills and expenses.

«Law Scout was created by a team of lawyers and developers working together to improve the legal experience,» said Shane Murphy, Co-Founder, Law Scout.

As part of the ecosystem, we have worked hard to build a service that can support enterprise - grade businesses such as Microsoft by forming top - notch engineering, client operations, business development, legal, and executive teams.

Having a college degree doesn't help you with those kind of jobs, and the kind of professional work that rewards higher education typically can't be obtained by someone without legal permission to work.

By focusing exclusively on the legal components of abortion while simultaneously opposing these family - friendly social policies, the Republican Party has managed to hold pro-life voters hostage with the promise of outlawing abortion, (which has yet to happen under any Republican administrations since Roe v. Wade), while actively working against the very policies that would lead to a significant reduction in unwanted pregnancies.

Because of my legal work on behalf of groups persecuted by the Chinese government, I have been tortured three times since September 21, 2007.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Speaking at a Mass at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, he said: «It is simply unacceptable to suggest that the resources of the faith communities -LSB-...] can work in cooperation with public authorities only if the faith communities accept not simply a legal framework, but also the moral standards at present being touted by government.»

This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.

Britain will argue that the two Christian women at the center of the case had the option of quitting their jobs and working elsewhere, so they are not covered by European human rights law, according to legal papers obtained by CNN.

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....

In working closely and personally with lawyers, I have come to see that they have been formed — by their legal education and even more by their years of professional work in the law — in a particular way of seeing and thinking that is distinctive to that profession.

Contract and property law are useful far beyond their role in litigation because they allow people of good faith to coordinate their activities by following pre-announced legal forms rather than having to work out their plans (even in good faith) on a case - by - case basis.

In addition to the expertise offered by Siddhi Shot, we regularly work with the following valued brand partners that provide high quality services to food & beverage brands in the areas of marketing, branding, staffing and legal services.

This is the first time that Italian wine legislation has permitted introduction of a new type of wine at the summit of a denomination's quality pyramid, and the first time that a legal revolution of such breadth was achieved thanks to several years» work by vintners and members of the consortium.

As an expert witness myself, I've questioned while working on legal cases within the community, who would be my peer support if I were to face some sort of persecution within my practice by an unfamiliar or hostile adversary?

Legal action has been taken by US campaigners on behalf of former child slaves who worked on farms supplying Nestlé and other companies.

«No attorney or law firm employed by or providing legal services to Hudson Valley Adoption Services may also provide any legal services to a birth parent or an adoptive parent working with the Hudson Valley Adoption Services in regard to the placing out of a child for adoption or in an adoption proceeding.»

The argument that the death and complication rates for homebirth when there is little to no legal route (Yes, CNMs are able to perform homebirth in NC but they are required to be overseen by an Obstetrician and therefore most work in birthing centers and hospitals) are proof of why it should not be considered for legalization and regulation is the same one seen when abortion is prohibited.

All aspects of the surrogacy journey are handled by our team, from matching, to screening, to legal work, to social work support.

Typically, when a parent is motivated by the desire to avoid conflict or communication with the other parent, but both parents are available and equally fit, the courts will reject the request for sole legal custody and require the parents to learn how to work together for the sake of the children.

A licensee is someone who's licensed by the province to carry out the legal work of an adoption.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

A legal challenge to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's designation as the candidate of the Working Families Party was tossed on Thursday by the state's highest court.

The regulation of mobility through legal frameworks at the European and international level, as well as the domestic, has generated a range of rights — to reside, of abode, to work, to rent — that are shaped by the interaction of multiple statuses — «EEA national», «asylum seeker», «habitual resident», «jobseeker», «worker», «self - sufficient person».

In coming days, prosecutors are expected to call witnesses tied to additional charges against Silver: That he profited from legal work sent to a second law firm in Manhattan by mega-landlord Glenwood Management and another real estate developer in return for the politician's alleged backing of real estate legislation.

Instead, Venditto was willing to try to work out a «legal way» — evidenced by the seeking of lawyers» opinions — for the town to guarantee Singh's loans in order for him to make upgrades to the beach and golf course where he was a concessionaire, Agnifilo said.

It might actually work and not just turn the legal tobacco consumption into illegal tobacco consumption of the same volume which then needs to be suppressed by law enforcement personnel which needs to be hired for this purpose.

The complaint, brought by the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, focuses on Silver's outside legal work, primarily for the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver served as of counsel.

Converting to being an independent state would be much harder than joining the EU once it achieved independence status and it worked out all of the necessary «divorce» arrangements with the U.K. And, that job would be made easier than it might be by its already substantial legal autonomy with its own legal system (except for the U.K. Supreme Court), its own legislature, etc..

* I'm thinking of metrics like voter participation, party membership, candidate recruitment, donations, willingness to work in civil service or the legal profession, etc., but I'm not sure what metrics are actually relevant or are used by experts, so I defer to the answers and their references for how to measure this.

They all earned at least $ 100,000 from legal work or other outside jobs in 2013, and are the prime targets of measures being pushed by the governor to limit or eliminate outside income.

Budget insiders took notice of the especially sharp critique of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new fiscal plan by the financial and legal experts who work for the Senate Republicans.

Law students working with Yale's legal services organization plan to file a class - action lawsuit in Federal District Court today against Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and the state's acting and former health commissioners on behalf of residents affected by Connecticut's Ebola quarantine policies, including two who were Yale graduate students.

Thus the difficult point was to weigh the interests of copyright owners, who occasionally spend hundreds of millions (as in the case of Hollywood movies) to create their works, and who have a right for setting the price of the products of these investments as well as a legal right that that right is enforced by the state.