Sentences with phrase «on city law firms»

The government's mooted tax on City law firms is just one of several options for improving the UK court system under consideration by government, senior partners in the City were told at a series of meetings with justice secretary Michael Gove earlier this week.

Justice secretary Michael Gove's plans to levy a tax on City law firms to off - set the revenue loss from scrapping controversial criminal court fees have been shelved, Legal Week understands.

Not exact matches

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Neporent was an associate and a partner in the Business Reorganization and Finance Group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a New York City - based law firm, from 1986 to 1998, where he did extensive work on behalf of Cerberus.

Werner's boutique law firm is specifically focused on small - business clients, and Werner himself has been drawn to technology — a combination that has served him well in the Windy City, particularly when it comes to digital currencies.

Kaminsky's campaign criticized a video on the website of McGrath's law firm, Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo of Garden City, in which a partner says the firm can get «substantive» verdicts for plaintiffs in police brutality and excessive force cases.

De Blasio, who has retained a personal lawyer and recently submitted a $ 10 million legal contract for a white collar law firm to represent the city in the matter — on the taxpayers» dime — maintained that he did everything by the rules.

Federal agents on Thursday arrested powerful New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D) on federal corruption charges, stemming from payments he received from two New York City law firms.

The law firm that helped de Blasio avoid corruption charges — costing taxpayers $ 2.6 million — is now representing a developer that wants city permission to build an extra-tall luxury apartment tower on the Upper East Side.

Since declining to seek a fourth term — ostensibly so he could focus on a possible run for president — the 69 - year - old moderate Republican has launched a consulting firm and joined Chadbourne and Parke, a New York City - based law firm.

«Details of the specific charges against Silver were unclear on Wednesday night, but one of the people with knowledge of the matter said they stemmed from payments Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes,» the Times reported.

After her hopes to become city comptroller were dashed in the last election, she joined the law firm Greenberg Traurig, where she's on the government relations team.

The lawsuit would not cost the county money out of pocket because it's working on a contingency fee basis with the law firm of Simmons, Hanly & Conroy, a national firm with six offices across the country including New York City, county officials said.

Some were on the city payroll, but most were in favored law firms, public relations and consultant shops.

The law firm that successfully sued the city in the wake of 9/11 is trying to cash in on the recently passed Zadroga bill.

His white - shoe law firm — which has yet to receive a penny from him despite nearly a year's worth of legal work, essentially extending him a line of credit — itself lobbies city agencies on behalf of clients with business before the city.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

ALBANY - The law firm of a Long Island Republican running in a crucial state Senate special election once represented a firefighter fired by the city after riding on a Labor Day parade float that reenacted the dragging death of a black man.

The former chief judge who resigned because he improperly gave campaign advice to former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes while sitting on the bench has joined a top city law firm, a lawyer at the firm said Tuesday.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

The federal inquiry focused on payments that Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes.

The other part of the inquiry by Mr. Bharara's office and the F.B.I. focused in part on payments that Mr. Silver received from a real estate law firm, which is not identified in the complaint but which a person briefed on the matter said was Goldberg & Iryami, which specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes.

Paul Vallone, Jr. (D)- D19 - College Point, Auburndale - Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Bay Terrace, Douglaston, and Little Neck - Leaving his practice at Queens law firm Vallone and Vallone to take a seat on the City Council, Vallone seems to be leaving onefamily business for another.

In one scheme described in court papers, he asked a pair of real estate developers to hire a small law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, which seeks reductions in New York City property taxes on behalf of its clients.

So, having compiled a relatively comprehensive list of law firms in my target cities that have technology specialists (or «patent agents» or «student associates,» depending on the firm's preferred vernacular), I've zeroed in on the best options.

In «Inner City,» Washington plays a liberal lawyer named Roman J. Israel who suddenly takes on the role of the law firm's frontman when his partner has a heart attack.

Solo attorneys and law firms with offices located in or around the city that they want to rank well for on Google must have a strong and accurate Google Places listing in order to stay above the fold on Google results for geo - based search terms, especially now that Google Places and Google organic results have been combined for most geo - based search results.

Qualification overhaul prompts concerns over impact on specialist training for City law firms

On his blog, he described himself as a «fictional hiring partner in a large law firm in a major city.»

Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester have topped the list of regional cities most popular with law firms looking to set up centres outside London where they can save around a fifth on their office costs.

«These days in large law firms it's very common to do a conflict search when a new matter comes into the office and find out that the party on the opposite side of a potential new retainer has retained one of your colleagues in a different city,» he says.

The entirety of legacy Nabarro's City base at 125 London Wall has now been taken on by Lloyds Banking Group, with University College London (UCL) and US law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan moving into Olswang's former London headquarters at 90 High Holborn.

The ex-husband's lawyer, Al Watkins, told reporters after the court hearing on Monday that a person believed to be a courier had dropped off the payments at his law firm in January in Clayton, report the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Associated Press and the Kansas City Star.

About 5,000 lawyers from around the world descended on the city to discuss issues from law firm management to emerging M&A trends to dawn raids to professional ethics and the appointment of judges to the International Criminal Court.

The inspiration for Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House came out of a story idea I had to interview people who worked with Nixon at his New York City - based law firm, Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, on the 50th anniversary of his joining in 1963.

In another win for Intapp, City law firm Fox Williams has selected Intapp Time as its new time management system, with plans to roll it out to nearly 70 fee earners in place of its current time recording process, which is based on Thomson Reuters Elite's sunsetted Envision practice management system.

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As a result of his participation in this trial, David has considerable knowledge of the English law of secret commissions and bribery (and has given a number of talks on this topic to City law firms).

Very large law firms that can maintain some of the same presence in bigger cities, but also can provide expertise on even the most detailed practice areas, will always be with us.

Lord Collins would go on to serve as a Supreme Court justice, but, as a former City law firm partner, was keen on solicitors having the opportunity to work behind the scenes in the judiciary.

See Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Formal Opinion 2001 - 1 (concluding that information submitted by e-mail to a law firm via the firm's website was unsolicited; simply including an e-mail link on a law firm's website does not amount to an invitation to transmit confidential information); Iowa State Bar Association Op. 07 - 02 (evaluated whether the lawyer said or did anything to prompt the potential client to provide confidential information to the lawyer, noting that a lawyer's «request to contact» is not the same as a request for information); Massachusetts Bar Association Op. 07 - 01 (concluding that a website is a marketing tool by which a prospective client may identify which lawyers have the expertise necessary to handle a particular case, and that the publication of such information could reasonably lead a prospective client to conclude that, when sending information to the firm via an e-mail link, the firm and its lawyers have implicitly «agreed to consider» whether to form an attorney - client relationship.

But closer inspection shows that the City's top law firms take different, and at times opposing, views on the pros and cons of flexible working arrangements.

Author: Among the contributors to this ABA Law Student Division blog: Lauren Ritter is the ABA Law Student Division liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel and a student at the University of Richmond School of Law; Sheevani Patel is the Executive Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New LawyLaw Student Division blog: Lauren Ritter is the ABA Law Student Division liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel and a student at the University of Richmond School of Law; Sheevani Patel is the Executive Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New LawyLaw Student Division liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel and a student at the University of Richmond School of Law; Sheevani Patel is the Executive Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New LawyLaw; Sheevani Patel is the Executive Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New LawyLaw Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New LawyLaw Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New LawyLaw in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawylaw firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer.

The debate around social mobility in the law almost exclusively focuses on City firms.

Many of the exhibitors were law firms hoping to snag some new business from the more than 2,000 corporate counsel who converged on the Mile High City.

Someone with the nom de net of Mr Peabody (a character in one of the all time great cartoon shows on TV — q.v.) has located approximately a hundred law firms in New York city on a Google map.

The mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was convicted along with a lawyer on Thursday in a scheme to solicit campaign donations from law firms and vendors in exchange for city contracts.

With over 120 lawyers in five cities across Ontario, Hicks Morley is a law firm focusing on management - side human resources law and advocacy issues.

The NYU Law graduate spent the late 1980s as a litigator at a powerful New York City firm before hitting the entertainment industry head on with a little help from her neighbor, filmmaker Spike Lee.»