Sentences with phrase «on larger law»

The past generation of lawyers has seen a huge surge and focus on larger law firms, and it's only the past few years since the recession we've seen a far greater interest among young lawyers in starting their own practices.

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It is primarily focused on larger law firms and, within those firms, on information technology, knowledge management, and operations professionals.

Similar findings were reported by the 2015 Am Law 200 Blog Benchmark Report, a report on large law firm blogs prepared by the blog company LexBlog.

First, there is incredible pressure on large law firms to get revenue in the door any way possible these days.

These are among the findings of the 2015 Am Law 200 Blog Benchmark Report, a report on large law firm blogs prepared periodically by the blog company LexBlog.

These are among the findings of the 2015 Am Law 200 Blog Benchmark Report, a report on large law firm -LSB-...]

Canadian law societies ought to be paying close attention to the control that corporate clients exert on large law firms through Outside Counsel Guidelines and other demands.

This background is often reflected in his posts, though we can see he too has an affinity for data as depicted in this infographic on the largest law firm demographics.

I'm focusing on large law firms, which are as hidebound and risk - averse as you're going to find in the business world, and where the whole business case for existence depends on strengthening the firm brand first, the lawyer brand second or lower.

In 2000, I was proud to have worked on one of the first unique components on a large law firm website — HSRScan — which was a searchable database of letters interpreting the Hart - Scott - Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the HSR Act) and its regulations.

Below is our monthly legal tech roundup, including two conferences to be held this spring: one focused on large law business development and the other centering on corporate legal departments.

Not exact matches

This increase in regulation is both unfair and inefficient: Compliance with governmental rules and laws is a greater encumbrance on small companies than large ones, and regulation hinders small business formation, growth, and job creation.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday began testing the use of body cameras by its employees at nine locations, potentially leading to a broad rollout by the nation's largest law enforcement agency that would make it the first federal agency to use the devices on a large scale.

California's proposed privacy law, which will be on the state's November ballot, would guarantee citizens the rights to see what kinds of information large companies are collecting on them, and to prohibit those companies from selling their personal information.

Once fiat currencies, which derive their value based on laws rather than metallurgical content, became common, governments could simply print bank notes in large quantities.

The overlooked larger point is that Washington's intense focus on job creation — the new law is called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — makes no sense.

The 1,603 - page bill, negotiated by Republican and Democratic appropriators and leaders, drew Democrats» ire when they discovered it would roll back the Dodd - Frank law due to go into effect next year by killing planned restrictions on derivatives trading by large banks, allowing them to continue trading swaps and futures in units that benefit from federal deposit insurance and Federal Reserve loans.

Lutke admits the law of large numbers is «bound to apply» to Shopify and start weighing on growth rates.

He's taken on small roles in TV shows like «Law & Order» and «Stitchers» as well as larger parts in movies like «The Thinning,» which The Verge called «a mess.»

«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist at law firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.

And health insurers, once considered to be a beneficiary of the Affordable Care Act, aren't really a solid Clinton proxy, as many have been withdrawing from the Obamacare marketplaces, casting shade on the law (not to mention that Clinton has spoken out against mergers between some of the largest players, including the proposed Aetna (aet)- Humana (hum) and Anthem (antm)- Cigna (ci) deals).

Alibaba (BABA)-- With a market value north of $ 250 billion, the Chinese online retail giant does not have the law of large numbers on its side.

On February 12, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission («FTC») revealed that it filed a complaint against the country's three largest dental supply companies, Henry Schein, Benco Dental Supply Company («Benco»), and Patterson Companies, Inc. («Patterson»), alleging violations of U.S. antitrust laws by conspiring to refuse to provide discounts to or otherwise serve buying groups representing dental practitioners.

Representatives from two organizations that track hate crimes, the Southern Povery Law Center and the Council on American - Islamic Relations, told USA Today that they had seen a much larger number of people reporting hate crimes than was typical since the general election.

Seattle's new minimum wage law groups franchises with large businesses, putting the pressure on independent franchisees to increase workers» pay at an accelerated pace (a move that sparked a discrimination lawsuit from the IFA).

Franchise owners in Seattle are still on track to be grouped with large businesses under the city's new minimum wage law.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Two U.S. Democratic politicians asked a government watchdog on Monday to scrutinize implementation of President Donald Trump's tax law, warning that the administration could use new tax guidelines to create the appearance of a large middle - class tax cut ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections.

Harris said China could get stricter on laws other than tariffs as part of a larger crackdown on U.S. companies.

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In fact, much of the law is focused on winding down the country's largest institutions and reining in non-banks.

In April 2005, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer asked Wells Fargo and three other large banks for information on loan conditions and credit scores as he investigated whether the racial disparities in high cost loans violated state laws.

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

But many on the right have been somewhat uncomfortable with Brown's law — which would set restrictions on how large a bank can grow relative to other banks and to the economy as a whole — or similar legislation.

On Dec. 22, 2017, President Trump signed sweeping tax reform, formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, into law, marking the largest change to U.S. tax policy in decades.

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Kelli practiced corporate law at Fenwick & West, where she worked on several of the tech industry's largest M&A deals.

Furthermore, the rules governing companies listed on the NYSE and incorporated under Delaware law require us to submit certain matters to a vote of shareholders for approval, such as mergers, large share issuances or similar transactions, and the approval of equity - based compensation plans.

One possibility is broader legislation dealing with bots, perhaps modeled on the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (better known as the BOTS Act), a 2016 law meant to clamp down on ticket scalping and computer programs that sweep up large numbers of tickets in online sales.

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

One of the premier's most vocal right - wing backers has registered to lobby the government about its carbon capture and storage laws on behalf of the province's largest greenhouse gas producing firm.

In response, Mr. Gross led the vanguard, developing the ground - breaking legal theory of applying common law to individual actions in state court on behalf of large institutional investors who purchased shares on foreign exchanges.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

On Dec. 22, President Trump signed the largest tax reform in a decade into law, which will take effect for the 2018 tax year.

On the other hand, those companies able to navigate Brazilian manufacturing laws could find a large potential workforce and inexpensive materials to begin setting up factories and create their products to sell around the world at a profit.

Despite growing calls for legalization across the globe and in the US, many marijuana users and businesses are regularly targeted by large media organizations and subject to discrimination based on outdated and misguided anti-marijuana laws.

Law enforcement has also become more adept at infiltrating the seedy underbelly of the crypto sphere, not to mention keeping a sharp eye on large - scale transactions.