Likewise, our experience covers a broad range
of substantive areas of law, including fraud, bankruptcy, media and entertainment, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, unfair and deceptive trade practices, RICO, insurance and reinsurance, breach of contract, consumer protection, product liability, and antitrust, among many others.
Perkins Coie's litigators have deep experience in a wide range
of substantive areas of law facing global companies, including:
Advanced knowledge of ADR techniques, and
some of the substantive areas of law would be invaluable in some practice areas.
Our proficiency in these and other fields enables us to analyze difficult cases in a wide spectrum
of substantive areas of law.
Our appellate lawyers undertake these roles in the broad spectrum
of substantive areas of the law and jurisdictions in which the firm practices generally.
Combining this approach with our knowledge
of substantive areas of law, technical proficiency and first - hand industry experience, enables us to resolve the complex legal and regulatory issues facing our clients.
Not exact matches
He also cites two
areas that were arguably not under his purview — the failure to pass a bill allowing federal financial aid eligibility for undocumented immigrant college students and any kind
of substantive change to gun
laws — as among the
areas he would've liked to see a different outcome.
The Office
of General
Law coordinates the DEEP Networking Group, which connects lawyers throughout the Department of Transportation who practice in the substantive areas of equal employment and personnel l
Law coordinates the DEEP Networking Group, which connects lawyers throughout the Department
of Transportation who practice in the
substantive areas of equal employment and personnel
lawlaw.
More than other
areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private,
substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach
of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection
of climate change and more established fields
of legal study, such as international trade
law.
Associations often have sections for
substantive practice
areas, and they may also have sections for other aspects
of practice such as
law practice management, technology in
law, or solo practice.
Slaw and 3 Geeks,
of course, both emerged from the practice support rather than the
substantive law side
of the profession (both have their roots in the
law librarian, KM and legal research
areas).
Additionally, students would take classes in a specific order allowing classes to be specially planned to give students within the specialization a more in - depth study
of the subject matter, potentially studying how there
area of interest applies to other
substantive areas of law that are not commonly part
of the particular specialized
area of study.
Both
of those accompanied major
substantive changes in those
areas of law.
In fulfilling its role outlined in Article 19 TEU to «ensure that in the interpretation and application
of the Treaties the
law is observed», the Court has not only functioned as a «motor
of integration» in
substantive areas of the
law, including citizens» rights, but has also ensured its own position at the apex
of the interpretative hierarchy through establishing and refining the doctrines
of direct effect and the supremacy
of EU
law.
Somehow, however, what should have been issues
of evidence were transmuted into issues
of substantive law in this
area of the
law.
WTO and international trade
law were considered quite esoteric for most
of the past 20 years with only a handful
of lawyers having any practical experience in the
substantive and procedural elements
of this
area of law.
Unlike other
areas of law, each member state
of the EU keeps its own family
law and can decide its own terms: While the EU provides a common set
of rules for jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement
of judgments and orders, Britain has three systems
of substantive law in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with each system operating almost independently.
(a) The firm's ability to handle complex and multi-dimensional problems (b) The firm's expertise in one or more
substantive areas of the
law (c) For a firm with branch offices, the ability to better serve clients through one or more offices
These arbitrations have involved many
of the subject
areas identified below and been subject to a number
of different procedural and
substantive laws.
He has authored numerous articles in state and national legal publications in
areas ranging from
substantive tort and evidentiary
law to trial tactics, and is a frequent lecturer on a variety
of legal issues, ranging from environmental coverage issues, pre-trial investigation and discovery, effective presentation
of evidence at trial, medical records, trial tactics and ethics.
All
of our writing assignments are based on the
substantive law of Torts.39 In addition to the cases that students use directly for their writing assignments, they will often read Torts cases from their casebook that are connected to (and thus give an important context for) the
area they are writing about.
The more financially and professionally successful mid-sized
law firms are proficient in performing virtually all
of the usual legal services in most
of the
substantive practice
areas required by their key clients, however, they do not have the lawyer complement required to be expert in all practice
areas, nor will the sophisticated buyers
of legal services believe that mid-sized
law firms are able to provide the same breadth and depth
of high quality legal expertise as large general practice firms several times their size.
An equally compelling kind
of competition is ability
of a firm's to attract and retain the more profitable and productive attorneys, especially those who control a considerable amount
of profitable client business or those who practice in
substantive practice
areas that are in high demand by profitable
law firm clients.
But, in my view, such reforms need to be accompanied, if not preceded, by multilateral consensus - building processes on
substantive law that go beyond the level
of abstract investment
law principles and that help to concretize these principles for more concrete
areas of policy - making.
You will gain valuable insight and useful knowledge in the procedural and
substantive issues surrounding many
areas of law.
Two, practical skill classes are designed around teaching skills to
law students, not just teaching the
substantive law of a particular
area.
The condition for
law firms to register is that they must contribute
substantive content on one or more legal topics in their
area of expertise and introduce a client to the service.
We know that there are many
substantive areas of family
law that could benefit from reform, but our thinking is that families in dispute need a smoother, more responsive entry into the system if they are going to benefit from
substantive provisions, current or reformed.
«We have created a new portal for solo and small - firm lawyers to enter the ABA, and we have thrown open the doors to our more than two dozen
substantive law sections, recognizing that these colleagues practice in many
areas of the
law and work on behalf
of a diverse group
of clients.
As a member on various e-mail lists, I get messages at least twice a month from attorneys around the country asking for assistance in everything ranging from
substantive areas of the
law to picking a talented expert witness.
New associates participate in an intensive three - day «base camp» to learn the
substantive law of the
area of practice in which they will be concentrating.
Ontario, for example, has a Practice Management Helpline (416-947-3315), and the Practice Mentoring Initiative, which «connects lawyers with experienced practitioners in relevant
areas of law to help them deal with a complex
substantive legal issue or a specific procedural issue outside
of the...
I think that because I'm speaking with lawyers, and at the library, training them on different
substantive areas of law, but also helping them through their sort
of practice management issues too, having that experience
of running a firm and knowing what it's like for them is obviously necessary.
If you tackle a case in a practice
area outside
of your typical one, you might just learn
substantive skills that could create competence in a whole new
area of law.
I may also categorize by type
of case, especially differentiating
areas, like criminal, where the
substantive law is federal.
The curriculum focuses on the legal system, dispute resolution, legal research and writing, legal reasoning and analysis, ethical decision making, jurisprudence, legal history, and
substantive areas of law.
It offers automated documents, legal analysis, practice notes, model agreement, and teams
of research and support lawyers in many different
areas of substantive law.
This guide is part
of the Lex Mundi Global Practice Guide Series which features
substantive overviews
of laws, practice
areas, and legal and business issues in jurisdictions around the globe.
Complexity results from the inherently technical nature
of the discipline, which involves the application
of general principles to
substantive areas of law that differ greatly in their contours and content, combined with the need for doctrine to conform to normative commitments (such as the principles
of good administration and the rule
of law).
Increasingly, astute managers are exercising influence on virtually all decisions affecting the «business
of law» and are providing management support to those lawyers who are responsible for managing and coordinating
substantive practice
areas.
The Tacoma - Pierce County Bar Association has 19 unique committees that serve to educate its members on specific
substantive areas of the
law and they also serve as a forum for legal professionals to discuss common problems and issues.
The Appellate Practice Group serves all
of the firm's clients and practice groups in the broad spectrum
of jurisdictions and
substantive areas of the
law in which the firm practices.
Our members work in a wide variety
of substantive law areas, and in a variety
of general practice, solo and small firm practice settings.
The Appellate Practice Group provides appellate - level expertise at all levels
of litigation, and serves all
of the firm's clients and practice groups in the broad spectrum
of jurisdictions and
substantive areas of the
law in which the firm practices.
Ms. Moynihan, a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group, is cochair
of the BBA Real Estate Section, which addresses specific
substantive areas of law ranging from bankruptcy to zoning, including land use, environmental issues, development, financing, and eminent domain matters.
This program provides
substantive legal content in the
areas of civil litigation, family
law, transactions, and wills and estates, and includes tips to strengthen your practice.
This program provided
substantive legal content in the
areas of civil litigation, family
law, real estate, business, and wills and estates, and included tips to strengthen your practice.
From the claims LAWPRO has seen, it is clear «dabblers» (lawyers acting outside
of their usual practice
area) are more likely to commit malpractice errors, and in particular a failure to know or apply
substantive law.
We have defended hundreds
of class claims, in all
areas of substantive law, in virtually every jurisdiction in the United States and Canada.
Our members work in a wide variety
of substantive law areas and in