Sentences with phrase «on behalf of the group before»

He said he researched all the ethical questions about applying for the job, and that he did not do any lobbying on behalf of the group before he applied.

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Overdahl has testified before Congress on behalf of the SEC and CFTC, and provided staff support and briefings for members of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.

For Esther, this decision to stand up on the behalf of her ethnic group could have cost her her life before the request even left her lips.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil WaOn March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil Waon behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil Waon the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

The extradition was welcomed by lawyers for a legal advocacy organisation, The Guernica Group, and the Spanish Association for Human Rights, who in 2008 filed a criminal complaint before the National Court on behalf of the victims.

Records obtained by Crain's New York through a Freedom of Information request showed she represented health care clients before Schneiderman, and worked on behalf of groups trying to pass a law legalizing same - sex marriage in 2011.

In a letter to the Public Interest Research Group dated May 16, the ethics commission said Mr. Sachs's calls on behalf of Mount Sinai Queens did not constitute lobbying because he had made them before the department formally decided to consider the rule change.

At the OECD, the Extended Advisory Group for Molecular Screening and Toxicogenomics (co-chaired by the JRC on behalf of the EU) manages the development of AOPs which undergo a series of expert reviews before being submitted for endorsement to the Working Group of National Coordinators for the Test Guidelines Programme (WNT) and the Task Force for Hazard Assessment.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.

Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.

A letter before action pursuant to Judicial Review proceedings has now been hand delivered to the Lord Chancellor's office on behalf of the Big Firms Group — an association of large criminal practices of which we are one.

On behalf of physicians and hospitals, Fenton Law Group has won landmark decisions before the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court and the California Appellate Courts.

In order for a service provision change (SPC) to take place under TUPE there needs to be, immediately before the SPC, an organised grouping of employees which has as its principal purpose the carrying out of the activities on behalf of the client.

In the test case that came before the Supreme Court in 2010, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Court held that it was constitutional to prohibit a group of humanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka.»

Emerald Law Group's Seattle attorneys have worked on both sides of the system — previously working on behalf of insurance companies — before deciding that they could make more of a difference representing individuals and small businesses who had been wronged.

Emerald Law Group's attorneys have worked on both sides of the system — previously working on behalf of insurance companies — before deciding that they could make more of a difference representing individuals and small businesses who had been wronged.

The court also held that the state's solicitation clause, which prohibited judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign contributions (but allowed campaign committees to do so on behalf of the candidates), was unconstitutional to the extent that it prohibited candidates from signing solicitation letters and making campaign appeals before large groups.

As young partner, Paul litigated and tried large complex injury cases on behalf of businesses and consumers with both Walter Lack and Thomas Girardi and continued litigating and trying cases during his tenure at Engstrom before joining the Stalwart Law Group in July of 2017.

The only issue before the Court of Appeal was whether the CFAs, standing alone, provided a sufficient basis on which to rest a valid claim to recover from the paying party a share of the costs incurred by Burroughs Day on behalf of a large group of clients.