Sentences with phrase «on substantive areas»

Practice group training challenges associates to focus on substantive areas of law.

To further its mission, the FJC publishes studies, reports and even treatises on substantive areas of the law, and also maintains a YouTube channel.

Successful union - management collaboration in public school reform must focus on substantive areas affecting the quality of teaching or student achievement.

Not exact matches

Antipathy for de Blasio runs strong in the area, with de Blasio having lost the assembly district to both Nicole Malliotakis and Joe Lhota, but the town hall audience engaged with de Blasio on many substantive topics.

This is just one example of how Statistics Without Borders and the AAAS On - call Scientists initiative are applying scientific methods, knowledge, and tools in one substantive area — understanding and addressing disparities in access to justice — and the service of human rights.

We hope the District has been making substantive (rather than accounting) changes in this area since the ERS report came out last year, and we would love to hear more from District staff on this.

The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.

The areas in which Zobernig works are as varied as his roles and are always aimed at exploring formal and substantive potential: his work is located on the interface between sculpture, space, architecture and design.

Perhaps we can move on from your (and my) ignorance of ocean thermal dynamics onto the more substantive and controversial area of whether and how much of the measured warming is due to CO2.

I try to imagine what the reaction would be if physicists in another (non-climate) area — say, quantum computing — were to hold a conference, and physicists from yet another area — let's say, high - energy nuclear physics — were to show up at their conferences and tell them, without having read up carefully on quantum computing, and lacking the knowledge to make substantive criticisms of the mainstream views in that field (beyond, perhaps, superficial ones that had already been exhaustively addressed and refuted in the quantum computing literature), that they had it all wrong.

«News and substantive articles written by CMCP member attorneys on issues relating to various areas of legal expertise.»

While substantive areas are important, our complaint history indicates that the biggest risk to lawyers venturing out on their own is a weakness in practice management, client relationships and ethics and professionalism.

In effect, the choice was made to test for substantive and procedural competence rather that to teach in those areas presumably on the basis either than law schools provided sufficient practical education and / or that students could learn enough on their own.

Depending on age, experience and personality, certain partners may be able to re-establish their positions as major contributors to their firms by obtaining training in other substantive areas.

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.

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.

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 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.

An attorney who commits to maintaining a blog, or frequently participating in conversation on social networks, builds credibility as they develop and refine substantive expertise in their area of practice through their online content.

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.

He is a frequent lecturer and author on subjects related to the substantive areas of his practice, as well as on litigation and trial practice, legal and judicial ethics, and current legal developments.

He is also a frequent speaker on topics related to his substantive areas of practice as well as alternative dispute resolution strategies and current legal trends.

I'm lucky that PLTC did focus on those areas (and as a result I finally know how to draft a contract), but there was very little substantive information that will be useful to me as a public interest lawyer, and a great deal that won't.

And then let them use social media the same way that successful boutiques and individual lawyers already do — by contributing substantive content on a discrete subject area, linking to relevant industry news from credible sources, and showing a human side to the firm and its lawyers.

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.

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.

They set up their practice groups based on technical expertise in substantive areas.

His practice focuses on legal research to resolve complex legal issues in all practice areas, in both substantive and procedural matters, and on appellate advocacy.

The TPCBA has 22 unique sections and 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.

Matthew L. Adams is a staff attorney in the firm's WilmerHale DiscoverySolutions department, focused on substantive and strategic areas of discovery for Litigation / Controversy... Read More

Tactic: Give those attorneys opportunities to work either directly or on a shared basis in substantive areas and on teams where work which leads to trials is more prevalent.

Benjamin Austrin - Willis is a staff attorney in the firm's WilmerHale DiscoverySolutions Department, focused on substantive and strategic areas of discovery for Litigation / Controversy... Read More

And there is no doubt that the legislature often intends to confer sufficient authority on the administrative decision maker to provide the substantive details within the bounds the legislature has set, based on the decision maker's understanding of that particular legal area and what is required in individual cases to achieve the objectives of the governing legislation.

Trish Bauer is a staff attorney in the firm's WilmerHale DiscoverySolutions Department, focused on substantive and strategic areas of discovery for Litigation / Controversy... Read More

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Palmer has taught Law and Medicine and Trial Techniques as an Adjunct Professor at Washburn University Law School and has given over 75 lectures on areas of substantive legal practice in the areas of product liability, medical malpractice, automobile liability, and third - party liability of insurers.

The dissenting Justices agreed with the Majority on the substantive points of law, but would have allowed the evidence seized from Mr. Paterson's home due to the good faith conduct of police in what they considered a legal grey area.

He concentrates his practice on complex litigation across a wide range of substantive areas including antitrust, intellectual property, and financial services litigation.

The Standing Committee on Disaster Preparedness and response of the American Bar Association also has resources available and various sections and divisions of the ABA are also working on developing disaster preparedness and response resources for their particular substantive area of concern in the law.

Jordana Altman is a senior staff attorney in the firm's WilmerHale Discovery Solutions department, focused on substantive and strategic areas of discovery for Litigation / Controversy... Read More

We know all the details of our respective substantive practice areas and we are confident on advising clients on the best means to an optimal and successful end.

Brooks Constantine is a staff attorney in the firm's WilmerHale Discovery Solutions department, focused on substantive and strategic areas of discovery for Litigation / Controversy... Read More

Jessica Alvarez is a staff attorney in the firm's WilmerHale Discovery Solutions Department, focused on substantive and strategic areas of discovery for Litigation / Controversy... Read More

For a more detailed description of selected substantive practice groups, please see the areas below on our website:

Expertise in the substantive area in dispute also allows a mediator to quickly focus on the issues in dispute.

Perspective features substantive legal articles on current issues in all areas of practice, offers more in - depth treatment of professional development, career and networking topics, and provides a forum for expressing opinions and / or commentary on issues affecting young lawyers.

Sustainable Community Development Clinic - Engage in economic development projects, both on behalf of clients and on behalf of the public interest, with a goal of increasing social justice and social enterprise in a range of substantive areas including land use, housing, local food, and healthy communities.

First, there are few lawyers who are genuinely specialists in both substantive areas of law (such as environmental law, planning law, prison law and so on) and the general principles of judicial review of administrative action.