Sentences with phrase «on legal culture»

More hours are also required to offset higher costs and this has an effect on the legal culture.

Early in his career, Engel was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand and he has since become an expert on its legal culture.

See e.g. Maxeiner, supra n. 1, at 44 (arguing that a globalized legal education is no longer subject to the cultural barriers that were once dominant in society, allowing students to focus on the legal cultures that they will likely encounter in an increasingly globalized economy); see also James E. Pfander, Book Review, (reviewing Thomas Main, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (Thomson / West 2006)-RRB-(describing the case for globalized Civil Procedure courses by emphasizing how such an approach would lead to a greater understanding of American procedure).

Not exact matches

«The Athletes» Village is close to my heart because I worked on both the bid and the closing, and I helped the team when I was working in the legal department with a lot of the contracts,» says Rosemarie Lipman, senior vice-president of people and culture.

Social Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social channels.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

GFI works to affect legal change through lobbying policy makers, writing op - eds, providing information to congressional offices, and researching potential regulatory pathways for cultured products.23 GFI also organized an event on Capitol Hill to promote plant - based meat that was co-sponsored by Beyond Meat.

But examples of the way concussions are handled in one community in Washington, regarded as perhaps the most enlightened state on the issue, demonstrate the limits of such legislative action and how persistent football culture, as well as questions of legal liability and resources, can leave young athletes in danger.

«This system required an international web of exchange of information and has created a corrupted body of information which was shared systematically with partners in the war on terror through intelligence cooperation, thereby corrupting the institutional culture of the legal and institutional systems of recipient states,» he wrote in an earlier report.

He used the cover of the Lib Dems to press ahead with bold reforms at the heart of his modernising project: making gay marriage legal, introducing Free Schools, overhauling Britain's something - for - nothing benefits culture and — controversially — committing to spend 0.7 per cent of UK national income on foreign aid.

Based on an actual incendiary legal case that was a sensation in Ethiopia a decade ago, «Difret» not only deals with an abhorrent practice that is still going on, it provides a dramatic yet nuanced window into a culture we almost never see.

The Pop Culture Passionistas recently spoke with Kathy Bates about her role as the title character on the legal drama Harry's Law.

The drama side offers a little something for everyone with the supernatural «The Passage» based on Justin Cronin's trilogy of the same name, ball culture period piece «Pose» from Ryan Murphy, «Sons of Anarchy» spinoff «Mayans MC» and the legal drama «Proven Innocent.»

The «culture of can't» is unchallenged, if not encouraged, by the authorities on education leadership, who dismiss talk of levers, contracts, and legal strategy.

On the one hand, it has become a fundamental element of our legal and political culture.

It is certainly worth acknowledging that the way that the security procedures are designed and implemented will have a significant effect on the security culture at the site, and, done poorly, can create significant legal risks to the organisation.

Hot on the heels of the Centre for Policy's report on the UK's litigious culture curbing educational trips, October will see teachers and adventurers, travel, legal and safety experts congregate at the annual Stretching Horizons» conference to discuss some of the ways schools can enrich education, mitigate risk and raise funds for educational journeys with a view to changing lives.

A third shift — one that importantly has not touched private schools — comprises the legal decisions that have undermined the authority of principals and teachers to create and pass on a common culture.

This guide focuses on your legal options against school districts and employees, which is the best way for making systemic change to the culture within schools, so they do a better job of preventing and responding to bullying.

The culture of reading depends on some level of book buying, but it is also friendly to any legal means by which a reader can acquire a book (note: both the culture of buying and the culture of reading suffer from geo - restrictions, but that's another discussion).

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

Using examples from academic literature, popular culture, legal cases, and the media, he illustrated how a combination of media, myths, and politics have led society to fear certain dogs based on their presumed breed or appearance.

David R. Roediger, Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, contributes an essay on whiteness in the culture at large, and Patricia J. Williams, Professor of Law at Columbia University, writes about the social and legal implications of whiteness.

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

Much much better business to get on with doing three good projects in a year with congenial clients and a culture of success than struggle with one awful government one for three years and an inevitable years long legal case at the end.

As someone on the outside looking in (I'm the Director of a branding agency and we work for a lot of legal clients) I think it's key to find a middle ground where you retain that bespoke, personalised approach to client relationships but with a consistent company culture behind it without everything becoming cold or impersonal.

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Pearson's Bjarne Philip Tellmann was named general counsel of the year for overhauling the company's legal team and culture, reducing controllable legal spend by almost half and saving millions of pounds on non-controllable spend such as M&A.

Some deal more than others with the relevant legal issues and some, perhaps to justify their academic aspirations, spend time on the history and culture of publishing.

Many dig bite victims are reluctant to pursue legal action for fear of appearing litigious or even «silly;» popular culture often heaps scorn on people who speak to a personal injury lawyer after these incidents.

A first - year law student who has never had the opportunity to disagree with a professor or to independently form opinions about cultures based on their art, literature, or music will almost certainly struggle to synthesize seemingly inconsistent judicial opinions into a cogent legal principle.

The ongoing debate [including on this blog] about the whether women in the law should conform to the dominant male legal culture often plays out as a question of what is the correct attire, in court, in the office and with clients.

Based on what you know about their businesses, legal needs, and stated expectations for their law firms, which culture would they select for your firm?

On October 4th, Bloomberg Law will host leading corporate counsel in New York to discuss the role of the legal department in company culture.

«The Common Scold» will cover a host of topics, from why law firms must list top administrators on firm Web sites; to why we need to eradicate the word «solution» from legal technology vocabularies; to why it's time to shift from «eat what you kill» to collaborative, corporate - modeled cultures; to why George Steinbrenner should void Kevin Brown's contract and keep Esteban Loaiza after all... more

The Ministry of Justice claimed that the measures which will remove injured people's access to free or affordable, independent legal representation would tackle a «rampant compensation culture», however these figures clearly show that claims are already on the decline.

The Forum will feature several talks addressing the latest advancements in ODR implementation and its potential impact on the traditional legal culture.

The bottom line is that the legal industry is in desperate need of a rebranding that starts on the surface and permeates throughout our profession's culture.

Fundamentally, the focus in mandatory minimum hour Continuing Legal Education (CLE) jurisdictions is on a culture of compliance with getting hours.

Its combined 46 pages (imagine the Minnesota Supreme Court of a generation ago expending that kind of ink on a statutory construction case) attest to the influence of textualism in today's legal culture.

If, as many have argued, exposure to international principles and the law of other legal cultures provides an important perspective on the development and operation of domestic law, then training in basic skills needed to acquire further knowledge of foreign and international law surely facilitates development of that perspective.41 This normative interest attains particular force in institutions where other topics in the legal curriculum (especially those taught in the first year) now include a global legal component.

Empirically, it is based on the rapid increase in transnational2 interaction (both business and personal) and the resulting development of increasingly complex and increasingly frequent legal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curricLegal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriculum.

Darrel Bricker and John Ibbitson, authors of The Big Shift, The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future, spoke at the CBA Legal Conference in Saskatoon recently on how the entire face of Canada is changing.

What voters had to say: «No lawyer or judge is having as significant an impact on Canadian legal culture this year.»

It is too early to know what action should flow from the evidence, but it is anticipated that this may include an array of reforms affecting formal court procedures, frontline legal service entry and information points, changes in legal and judicial culture, alternative models of legal practice, multi-sector perspectives on investment in access to justice, and effective public involvement in the change process.

The focus on knowledge sharing behaviours and culture is reflected in Burges Salmon's close, collaborative working relationships, partner - led approach and its top - tier expertise as recognised in the leading legal and industry award schemes and legal directories.

In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Shah is the Chief Diversity Officer for Brooks Kushman and as such serves on the management committee to help shape a culture of diversity and inclusiveness within the firm and extend the firm «s reach through pipeline initiatives and outreach efforts.

The Louisiana Law Blog has «insight and information on Louisiana law, litigation and legal culture.»

Recommendation 50, the lead recommendation in the section on «Equity for Aboriginal People in the Legal System,» calls upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal organizations, «to fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes for the development, use, and understanding of Indigenous laws and access to justice in accordance with the unique cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.»