Sentences with phrase «of private law firms»

Although we often think of these barriers in the context of private law firms, we have evidence that they do exist in the public service as well.

Paul is an active member of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), an international organization of professional managers of private law firms, non-profits and government organizations.

According to a 2005 NALP survey, 18.4 % of private law firms surveyed allow job - sharing on a case - by - case basis.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

In sum, uniting the resources of a private law firm with a public organization on a particular cause is a win - win for everyone, with a significant impact on the community, and I believe this trend will continue.

Not exact matches

Monica Zent is the founder and CEO of Foxwordy, a private social network for lawyers and founder of ZentLaw, an alternative law firm.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

In his day job, Prichard is non-executive chair of Bay Street law firm Torys LLP, where he specializes in arbitration and public - private partnerships.

«The larger exemption provides a lot of planning opportunities for people who own businesses or other assets that they expect to go up in value,» said Michelle Canerday, head of the private client group in Chicago for law firm Nixon Peabody.

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

The unit has a fraction of the paralegal and administrative help of even a small private law firm.

A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago Law School, he made a fortune running private equity firm Oak Hill Capital.

Some of the best firms that sell cyber security services to private clients also perform work as government contractors and employ law enforcement veterans for their expertise.

To mount his challenge to EPA's rule to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, he took the unusual step of accepting free help from a private law firm.

«The administration had made it very clear they are changing the thrust of U.S. policy to allow the private sector in Cuba to blossom,» said Pedro Freyre, chair of law firm Akerman LLP's international practice.

The rule of law is one, according to studies from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the law firm Hogan Lovells; in countries with strong rule of law, government officials as well as individuals and private entities are predictable, reliable, and held to account.

Over the course of his private practice legal career, Jimmy was a partner at three major U.S. law firms — most recently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Services, on the other hand, span a variety of community, business, and personal service industries that include hotels, professional sports franchises, private health care, and engineering and law firms.

Before joining West Coast, Gavin practiced Aboriginal law at a private firm where he represented Indigenous Nations on issues related to land use and management, environmental assessments, provincial regulatory decision - making, implementation of modern treaties and Indigenous governance.

Ahead of Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, Facebook has hired a team from the law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants to coach him on questions lawmakers may ask, and on how to pace his answers and react if interrupted, according to people close to the preparations, who would speak only anonymously because the sessions were private.

Private - equity firms have been subject to SEC scrutiny since the passage of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law in 2010.

He returned to Hong Kong in 1999 to work in a private client law firm, becoming a director of trust and legal affairs at an international trust company after that.

Those cases include decisions addressing the jurisdiction of the SEC, the CFTC and bank regulators over newly created derivatives and other financial instruments; the scope of the definition of a «security»; the availability of private damage actions; extraterritorial application of U.S. securities and futures laws; the standards of liability for fraud and manipulation; electronic trading markets; and the scope of fiduciary obligations of brokerage firms and banks.

Benesch is an international business law firm that counts the middle market alternative investment industry among its core focus areas — from representation of private equity firms...

According to Pettit, the first task to avoid private domination is «to firm up the infrastructure of nondomination, providing as far as possible for a resilient economy, a reliable rule of law, an inclusive knowledge system, a sound health system, and a sustainable environment».

Partly as a result of those letters, the main factions of legislature have hired private attorneys from prominent law firms.

Earlier in the year, the Speaker of the Assembly was arrested and charged with running multi million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

The reforms were proposed after the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

Even if Silver was taking the money and not detailing it — he recently admitted the $ 650,000 in outside earnings he listed on his 2013 disclosure form included private law clients in addition to payments from Weitz & Luxenberg, a large plaintiff's firm — a failure of disclosure is not a federal offense.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.

One of the accusations against Silver is that he, in Bharara's term, «monetized» his public office for private gain by steering clients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm that has long paid Silver a salary to be mysteriously «of counsel.»

Several senators, including Skelos, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in outside income from private law firms, and if the governor's ethics package is adopted, would have to disclose more details, including names of their clients.

Silver, a Democrat who represents Lower Manhattan, hired Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman to support several private law firms — including Weitz & Luxenberg, where he is of counsel — that employ legislators as they resisted the Moreland Commission's subpoenas.

The government claims Silver steered public money to Taub in exchange for referrals of cancer patients who Silver presented to the private law firm «Weitz and Luxenberg,» where Silver served as «of counsel.»

Her private sector experience includes working for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell and Fortress, a major hedge fund.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

Some of those firms were title insurance companies that Skelos steered to his son from the Senate leader's work at a private law firm.

Hartunian, who was U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York from 2010 t0 2017, is now in private practice with the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

In March, Boehner announced that if Obama wouldn't defend DOMA, he would, hiring a private law firm to defend it on behalf of the House.

Earlier in the year, the former Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a multimillion dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

During testimony, he explained how he and Silver came to work out an arrangement whereby Taub referred patients with cancer to Sheldon Silver who, in addition to serving as Assembly speaker, also worked as «Of Counsel» at a private law firm.

Flanagan announced on Monday after he was elected to succeed Skelos as majority leader that he had stepped away from his private - practice law firm where he was of counsel.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned the Government that any plans for a change in tax law aimed at private equity firms could also damage small firms.

Why don't you ask any partner at any private sector law firm or accounting firm or investment firm if they're aware of every investment made.

Silver has been accused of receiving millions of dollars in illegitimate income from two private law firms.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Governor Cuomo's now disbanded Moreland Act Commission has a $ 300,000 contract with a private law firm, with one of the attorneys charging $ 550 an hour for his services.

Six state agencies retained the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP on April 29, 2016 — the same day Governor Andrew Cuomo's office hired private investigator Bart Schwartz's Guidepost Solutions — at a total potential cost of $ 1.9 million.

NEW YORK — Law enforcement officials moved a step further in their investigation of the Obama administration's former auto industry adviser, reaching settlements with the private - equity firm he co-founded in an ongoing corruption probe that has touched several prominent Wall Street firms.

Hoefer says the legislature chose private law firms even though the Senate and Assembly have dozens of attorneys on staff.

A lawyer and businesswoman: Tenney was a partner in the Utica - area law firm of Groben, Gilroy, Oster and Saunders before going into private practice in 1996.