Sentences with phrase «of legal work required»

Think of the amount of legal work required to run this — leasing, employment, litigation, and general corporate work — the list is endless.

More privately and publicly owned businesses are «shopping around» to retain high quality attorneys in smaller and midsized firms — who are not necessarily the most expensive — as an alternative to referring all of their legal work requiring outside assistance to their «traditional» larger firms.

The professional nature of legal work requires lawyers to focus primarily on serving their client's interest.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

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.

But for the moment, amid a sea of names being floated — New York City Public Advocate Tish James, Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas among them — lawmakers are still working out more thorny legal questions of a joint session of the Senate and Assembly, which would be required to fill the post.

She would bring more legal work in - house, though that would require hiring of more deputy county attorneys.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

Meanwhile chairman of the committee working on the code of conduct, Nana Amoako, says the document requires some legal backing before it can be laid in parliament.

The settlement for Law360, which is a subsidiary of LexisNexis, will not longer require editorial employees sign on to non-compete agreements, which prevented them for one year after leaving the company to work for a media outlet that provides legal news for up to one year.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

During my time with the Parlee McLaws's practice group in intellectual property and innovation (TechCounsel team), I acquired invaluable working knowledge of patenting by assisting in the preparation, filing, and prosecution of patents, as well as the legal documentation and reporting required by companies and for the Alberta Securities Commission.

Chief Legal Counsel Anna Hörnlund, who wrote a letter in this week's The Lancet, says Macchiarini's work needed to obtain ethical approval from one of six regional ethical review boards, as required by Swedish law — and neither Macchiarini nor his former employer, Karolinska Institutet, did so:

To help with new Parent and Family Engagement requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and to meet the civil rights obligations of schools in working with Limited English Proficient (LEP) and English Learner (EL) families across the state of Maine, leaders in the Maine Department of Education are partnering with TransACT ® Parent Notices to provide all 266 local education agencies representing thousands of schools and teachers with unlimited access to expertly written parent notifications that meet legal requirements and guidance on required audiences, and recommended timelines.

A collateral mortgage is registered as a type of lien under the Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) of Canada and requires more legal work to be discharged.

This means that you can borrow more than what is available in your bank account, which is usually up to a limit of $ 10000 and no paper work or legal documentation will be required.

It's perfectly legal to plan and conduct a funeral in your own home, provided you comply with all relevant legislation and do all of the required administrative work.

As part of the application, you will be required to provide a few basic details about yourself, such as your full legal name, Social Security number, home address, work and home telephone numbers, and information regarding your monthly income.

The need for a more - flexible schedule can arise from a variety of personal and professional situations, including caring for young children or aging parents, starting or growing a solo practice, moving with a spouse who is required to relocate for work, starting or growing a side business outside of the legal profession.

In contrast, most law firms price work, bill clients, compensate lawyers and reward partners based on the amount of time and effort required to produce and deliver legal services.

The end result is that few clients will tolerate lawyers who bill time for doing work that does not require a law degree, and the amount of «bespoke» legal work performed by lawyers will shrink as far as possible.

If we were starting out to draft confidentiality rules in 2016, it is difficult to imagine that lawyers would not be required to uphold the privileges that are so fundamental to the work of lawyers and the legal system.

Potential solicitors will also be required to undertake a period of legal work - based experience of two years.

In comments on the story over at WSJ Law Blog, a few participants call for the American Bar Association to take a more protectionist approach and prohibit firms from off - shoring work, while others decry use of Indian lawyers as «unauthorized practice of law» since decisions about whether documents are privileged requires legal judgment.

• Applicants who are required to establish rehabilitation under Rule 3 - 13 «so as to ascertain whether they displayed any malice or ill feeling towards those who were compelled to bring about the proceeding leading to the need to establish rehabilitation;» • Applicants with a history of substance abuse / dependence «so as to ascertain whether they discussed or posted photographs of any recent substance abuse;» • Applicants with «significant candor concerns» including not telling the truth on employment applications or resumes; • Applicants with a history of unlicensed practice of law (UPL) allegations; • Applicants who have worked as a certified legal intern, reported self - employment in a legal field, or reported employment as an attorney pending admission «to ensure that these applicants are not holding themselves out as attorneys;» • Applicants who have positively responded to Item 27 of the bar application disclosing «involvement in an organization advocating the overthrow of a government in the United States to find out if they are still involved in any related activities.»

By connecting its LA&W course with one of the required first - year courses, Maryland's approach to first - year instruction has been in line with a number of the Report's specific recommendations: «Offer an Integrated Curriculum,» «Join «Lawyering,» Professionalism and Legal Analysis from the Start,» and «Support Faculty to Work Across the Curriculum.»

Does the school offer or require internships, and provide placement assistance for graduates to make the launch of their legal careers and working life easier?

Exercises using samples in the first - year legal writing and analysis course bring the students» focus to legal writing doctrine by requiring them to judge the effectiveness of the work of legal writers other than themselves.

Assault at work compensation claims are a niche area of personal injury law and require specific, bespoke legal expertise.

Legal practice frequently requires the input of other attorneys to work out theories or to quickly find that esoteric form that would otherwise have taken you three hours to find on your own.Finding a virtual office provider that has vibrant community of willing collaborators will save your practice valuable time and money.

The legal issues associated with childhood injury cases are often quite complicated, requiring the work of an experienced legal representative.

While it is possible to speculate in many ways as to why this is so rare, some insight may be found in a 2013 letter from David Schraver, the President of the New York State Bar Association to Jonathan Lippman, then Chief Judge of the State of New York: Objecting to a newly adopted rule that required New York attorneys merely to report the number of hours they spent on pro bono work (without imposing any minimum number of required hours), Schraver wrote that «the provision of legal services to the poor is a public responsibility.»

The balance of the fee is paid only if the property is sold and further legal work (conveyancing) is required.

After buying law firm ADT, a provider of document review services, it told all the contractors the work they were doing was no longer legal work thus not requiring professional liablity insurance.

Sometimes this process anxiety is even more distracting and disconcerting for the client than the substantive legal issues, and frequently the «hand - holding» that is required to deal with these issues is the kind of work that lawyers avoid, not realizing the potential it has to strengthen the client relationship.

However, firms are not required to disclose the cost differential for legal work performed by U.S. lawyers, whereas disclosure of mark - ups are required for foreign lawyers.

Dean John Corkery of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago said that law firms would like to see more (rather than less) emphasis on legal writing, training to improve analytical skills, and training that would require lawyers to work together well.

It may be thought that there is more than a casual connection between this change and the decision to transfer work involving matrimonial «undefendeds» (the old «special procedures») from district judges to legal advisers with the likelihood that they will in due course be required to be issued out of or through bulk centres.

In addition, entities such as banks as well as other professionals such as accountants are already the first point of contact in many transactions that require the provision of legal services including lending, estate work, tax and corporate transactions and therefore will have effectively already acquired the client.

This mix of tasks is paired with an applicant pool that includes many lawyers looking for alternative legal careers, and the persistent idea that technical work requires IT professionals to manage it.

I've had the privilege of working with clients around the world that for legal or other reasons are required to block access to sites via the IWF list as well as other lists.

As legal director I work with the executive team to deliver the strategy and goals of the business; this requires involvement in a range of activities including acquisitions, development, leasing, financing and sales as well as corporate level issues, so I integrate with the rest of the business across all our projects.

Let the legal fraternity of the world know that Rainmaker Co. is in the process of making world class litigation support service providers of high quality work at comparatively low cost with guarentee of Inernationally required Ethical and security standards.

However, for work that requires knowledge of local law, interpretation of domestic statute and case law, and giving legal advice, traditional outsourcing is unable to properly serve the needs of clients.

«U.S. lawyers are free to outsource legal work, including to lawyers or nonlawyers outside the country, if they adhere to ethics rules requiring competence, supervision, protection of confidential information, reasonable fees and not assisting unauthorized practice of law.»

However, if you have been injured in a construction accident through no fault of your own or require legal advice following an accident in the workplace, our team of expert solicitors, working on a no win, no fee basis, can get you the compensation you deserve.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

51 Sixty - seven and one - half percent of the respondents answered yes to the question: Have you ever worked on a legal matter, including any that required consultation with local foreign counsel, that required you to know something about: