Sentences with phrase «of number of lawyers»

I think one of the other challenges in the market generally, in Canada compared to the U.S., is we have a very underdeveloped legal contractor market in terms of the number of lawyers actively engaging in being employees,» he says.

One way to gain an understanding of the number of lawyers engaged in a career change is to review the filings they make about their status to the various law societies in Canada.

(11) the problem is damaging the legal profession by way of: (1) the increasing number of law firms in severe financial distress because of shortages of clients; (2) the reduction of the number of lawyers in private practice, particularly so as sole and general practitioners and small law firms; and, (3) damage to the profession's reputation;

Tennenhouse is just one of number of lawyers involved in residential school cases whose conduct is being examined.

The number of lawyers at the big firms is a relatively small percentage of the number of lawyers practising across the country, so I wouldn't read too much into what these numbers might mean.

DLA Piper announced Thursday that it plans to fully merge with Australian alliance partner DLA Phillips Fox in a move aimed at giving the firm a much larger footprint in the Asia Pacific region — and positioning it as the largest firm in the world in terms of number of lawyers.

Not exact matches

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

The Journal, which spoke to former Theranos employees, their families, a number of experts, and the company's lawyers for its story, said Theranos fought the paper throughout the entire investigation.

All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

«These companies, they don't want to be Craigslist,» says Shannon Liss - Riordan, a veteran labor lawyer spearheading a number of the biggest misclassification suits, including the Uber class action.

Currently they release information on the number of women in their total workforce and in their leadership roles and publish more detailed information about gender balance internally, but are still working with lawyers to navigate the stricter data collection and protection measures in Germany, where the company is based, and other countries where their employees work, SAP's chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenberg told Fortune.

Immigration lawyer McEntee, meanwhile, notes that a number of her clients are considering relocating to South American countries such as Chile, now that the U.S. startup visa program no longer appears to be valuable.

As lawyer and legal scholar Scott Killingsworth argues, «command - and - control» approaches to compliance come with a number of inherent limitations and adverse side effects.

For Theranos, these kinds of endorsements were made by a number of high - profile investors, such as software giant, Larry Ellison, and a prestigious board, which included high - profile lawyer, David Boies, and former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger.

Bob also is a seasoned trial lawyer with a very active litigation practice and decades of experience covering a number of areas including employment, commercial disputes, private equity, financial services, insurance, securities, real estate, sports law, and banking.

This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd - funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

20.02.18... The Estonian state needs to understand the necessity of a state reform that would cut the number of officials exercising public authority by half, prominent lawyer and former Minister of Justice Jüri Raidla said in a speech at a meeting dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Estonia on Monday.

And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Trump's lawyers have made a number of arguments to try to get Zervos's suit dismissed, but the most important has to do with the fact that Zervos is suing in New York state court.

While you generally have to opt in twice to such services, the FTC is accusing T - Mobile of «just buying phone numbers from random places and billing these consumers without any notice whatsoever,» according to FTC lawyer Brian Shull.

And Christians are also working to improve rule of law; a disproportionate number of Chinese rights lawyers are Christian.

SNAP gives every appearance of having a relationship with a number of lawyers involved in this kind of litigation.

NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR number 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians... lawyers, so crime per physicians can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!of lawyers or what are liars and physicians... lawyers, so crime per physicians can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!!!

Lawyers last year guessed the number of victims was...

The only exception is the three government schools for training judges and lawyers in the shari`a with the number of students limited to the positions to be filled.

They usually work under the continuing supervision of professional family counselors, and a number of psychiatrists, psychologists, and lawyers are available as consultants.

«When those cases are appealed up to responsible bodies of lawyers, judges and administrators, a vast number and even a sizable majority of them are thrown out, because these authorities are trained to examine evidence and to evaluate it.

He had been removed a number of times from a Birmingham law firm before «vaulting the counter» and repeatedly stabbing a trainee lawyer - twice in the chest, in the head, hand and shoulder.

(For example, information on the number of lawyers, law schools, and so forth in a society could be a substitute measure of legal development, but in that case the relationship with societal complexity would be well - nigh tautological.)

In New England the first group consisted of a small number of people such as the magistrates and other political officers, the ministers, the merchants, and the slowly increasing number of professional people such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

Located two blocks east of the Strip on Tropicana Avenue, Greens of Las Vegas features replicas of — or, as the project's lawyers say, greens «inspired by» — specific holes at Augusta National, TPC at Sawgrass and a number of British Open venues.

In order to shine a bit of light on the business of transfers, The Independent has asked Jake Cohen, a sports lawyer who has worked on a number of high - profile transactions in football, to clear up some misconceptions and discuss some of the finer points of the business of a transfer.

The Independent asked Jake Cohen, a sports lawyer who has worked on a number of high - profile transactions in football, to clear up some common misconceptions

Los Angeles is host to a number of lawyers who are well versed in the intricacies of surrogacy agreements.

A number of other senior lawyers have also expressed doubt whether the Localism Act does, as Mr Pickles claims, make the inclusion of prayers in local authority meetings lawful.

I interviewed dozens of experts, social workers, lawyers and asylum - seeking teenagers and found that, far from being welcomed to safety, vulnerable children face an overwhelming number of obstacles.

But on cross-examination, defense lawyers suggested White manipulated Adam into providing the number of a «safe» cellphone for their discussions.

A report tweeted Tuesday night by Stormy Daniels» lawyer details a number of suspicious payments made to Michael Cohen

The Boerum Hill resident and lawyer for disability rights replaces Millman and will assume her responsibilities immediately, overseeing a number of key committees.

They actually outgunned the State of NY with the number of lawyers and expertise on the inside and outs of proceedure.

Senate President Bukola Saraki's lawyers numbering up to 20 have walk out of the Code of Conduct Tribunal proceedings.

There is a steady increase in the number of dentists, doctors, lawyers and other senior positions.

Last night, not long after Magistrate Judge and special redistricting master Roanne Mann grilled legislative lawyers about the merits of considering incumbency, she released a set of proposed maps that seems to take the current configuration of congressional districts as a very loose template, but with some significant changes for a number of existing office - holders.

Based on the amendment, he said, «The number of those who are seeking for recall of Senator Melaye from the Senate are supposed to line up somewhere in Kogi State with him and his lawyers, and each person will verify their signature.

Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, a Democrat from Rockland County, asked members of the industry a series of questions about possible regulations, including whether an age limit of 18 or 21 was appropriate (18, a FanDuel lawyer replied), whether information about problem gambling was made available (yes, through an outside link, Schiller said), whether there are prohibitions on employees of sporting teams who might have inside knowledge playing (no, because their knowledge would be a statistically insignificant advantage, the companies said) and whether players were limited in their number of entries they could make in a given day.

Trump is meeting Wednesday with Peter Ward, the president of the city's hotel trades council and Vincent Pitta, an influential lawyer and lobbyist in the city who is close to a number of municipal elected officials, according to a transition spokesman.

Lawyers representing 11 artists argued in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Thursday that an effort by the Bloomberg administration to slash the number of artists in parks by more than half violated the First Amendment's free - speech protections.

On the first day of presenting their defense cases Thursday, their lawyers urged a federal judge to dismiss the charges on a number of grounds, not the least of which, they said, is that the government has failed to prove corruption occurred after nearly five weeks of prosecution witnesses and evidence.

The education interests were joined by a number of perennial top spenders, including the Greater New York Hospital Association and the state's trial lawyers.

At the resumption of today's trial, Umar also directed the defence counsel to restrict the number of lawyers who would cross-examine the prosecution witness to just one.