Sentences with phrase «over outside counsel»

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David Boies, Theranos» outside legal counsel, told the Journal that CMS chose to do its inspection on the area where the company did most of its tests, i.e.: «the room that processed over 90 % of the samples at the time.»

Retrophin's then outside counsel and others negotiated with Rosenfeld for months over how much Retrophin stock Rosenfeld would receive to resolve his dissatisfaction with his MSMB investment.

On February 4, 2014, Rosenfeld told Retrophin's outside counsel that he was willing to sign a consulting agreement (including a release) which contemplated him receiving 66,000 shares payable over a four quarters and $ 200,000.

Mr. Rosenstein has been lead counsel in working with various clients in order to reorganize their business, both within and outside of Chapter 11; the work he has performed has saved clients in excess of a combined amount of over twenty million dollars through drafting and implementation of reorganization or liquidation plans.

Picente said he tasked the County Attorney's Office with looking into the matter over a year ago, and after a diligent assessment and a request for proposal from outside counsel was completed, the county decided last month to move forward with pursuing its legal options.

As the negotiations over the state budget appear to be winding down, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's counsel's office met privately on Friday afternoon with several good - government advocates to discuss new outside income disclosure requirements under consideration.

The Senate and the Assembly have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past two years on outside counsel to investigate sexual harassment complaints.

In her current position as Director of Clinical Services, Christine over sees the Clinical Counseling Program, Psychological Testing Services, contracted clinical services to outside agencies and all other clinical services within PUC as well as provides direct counseling services and individual and group supervision to the clinical counseling trainees Counseling Program, Psychological Testing Services, contracted clinical services to outside agencies and all other clinical services within PUC as well as provides direct counseling services and individual and group supervision to the clinical counseling trainees counseling services and individual and group supervision to the clinical counseling trainees counseling trainees / interns.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

«On little notice, Activision insisted on conducting interviews over the Presidents» Day holiday weekend; West and Zampella were interrogated for over six hours in a windowless conference room; Activision investigators brought other Infinity Ward employees to tears in their questioning and accusations and threatened West and Zampella with «insubordination» if they attempted to console them; Activision's outside counsel demanded that West and Zampella surrender their personal computers, phones and communication devices.»

On one hand some industries in the past have suffered from «over consulting» and have spent considerable dollars on outside counsel when the task may have been best handled in house.

Corporate legal departments working with outside counsel often go through invoices line by line looking for potential overcharges or compliance missteps before payments are made, forcing law firms and legal departments into standoffs over invoicing.

Most companies, before they have anything in - house, typically engage outside counsel, and outside counsel will then go engage their own vendors, do the process, and hand a bill over at the end of the day with the attorneys not necessarily knowing what they're getting billed for.

Oversaw outside counsel in dispute between Florida and Georgia before the U.S. Supreme Court over Georgia water consumption's harming Florida's Apalachicola Bay.

As we have witnessed over the past five years, the efforts of law firms have evolved in legal project management and, not surprisingly, corporate legal department expectations for their outside counsel to implement LPM has increased exponentially.

Seeking to gain a stake in the country's second - largest oil field, the Republic of Kazakhstan has turned to its longtime outside counsel at Curtis, Mallet - Prevost, Colt & Mosle for advice amid a two - year dispute with an international consortium of energy giants over what is known as the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating project.

But successful firms look ahead: if your biggest source of referrals has just been taken over by an international conglomerate with an all - powerful in - house counsel outside of Canada, that demands action.

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In the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2011 CLO Survey (referred to here as the ACC CLO Survey [2]-RRB-, which surveyed over 1,100 Chief Legal Officers, the CLOs were asked what they would like to see outside counsel do to improve the relationship with, or work done for, their respective legal deparCounsel's 2011 CLO Survey (referred to here as the ACC CLO Survey [2]-RRB-, which surveyed over 1,100 Chief Legal Officers, the CLOs were asked what they would like to see outside counsel do to improve the relationship with, or work done for, their respective legal deparcounsel do to improve the relationship with, or work done for, their respective legal departments.

Summary: Corporate law departments have reported in a recent Altman Weil survey that they will cut down on outside counsel spending over the...

$ 10 billion in legal fees spent by outside counsel over a recent three - year period were analyzed by Lexis - Nexis.

Lawyers in corporate legal departments and attorneys at law firms both say the amount of outsourced legal work has increased over the past year, but they disagree by how much, according to the International Association of Defense Counsel's (IADC) second annual Inside / Outside Counsel Relationship Survey.

Concerns raised over issues which could implicate potential scrutiny by government agencies may require the involvement of outside counsel.

Thanks to a couple of well placed FOI requests & investigative journalism by Robert Todd over at the Law Times, we now know that the DOJ spent over 24 million on outside counsel in 2008.

Since opening her practice over a decade ago, Tegan continues to focus on business and corporate matters and cyber security representing a wide variety of privately - owned businesses in all stages of their corporate life from formation and start - up through growth, succession and divestitures acting as a company's outside general counsel advising clients on a multitude of issues that arise in today's increasingly complex business environments.

With over 25 years leadership experience Dan advises Fortune 1000 corporate legal clients on operational excellence, matter and legal spend management, and outside counsel management, with particular expertise in helping insurance company claims departments.

Rees has over 25 years of experience advising law departments on cost control, department structure, process improvement, outside counsel management, performance benchmarking, and other key issues.

'' Chambers guides have helped me in the best way possible over the years to identify the most suitable law firm outside the Netherlands whenever our business called for engaging such counsel.

Therefore outside counsel may be inclined to cede control over the matter to a client willing to pay for the privilege.

Kevin previously worked at Microsoft Corporation for 18 years, including as Deputy General Counsel for Legal Operations, with oversight for managing internal operations and the outside counsel network for a worldwide legal group that included over 900 employees with a nine - figure annual Counsel for Legal Operations, with oversight for managing internal operations and the outside counsel network for a worldwide legal group that included over 900 employees with a nine - figure annual counsel network for a worldwide legal group that included over 900 employees with a nine - figure annual budget.

(Confidential client) Lead investigations counsel into allegations of human trafficking in Iraq, over 30 interviews conducted at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq and at multiple locations outside Green Zone.

I find myself on the fence — I've been inhouse for over 10 years and now I find myself flirting with the idea of becoming an outsourced outside counsel (so basically working for a small handfull of corporate clients rather than just one or a whole bunch).

The key here is to ensure an efficient distribution of scarce resources whether internal paralegals, outside counsel and in - house lawyers and over time move the more skilled resources up the pyramid so that they are focused on the areas of highest risk and financial / legal exposure.

«Since taking over as corporate counsel for Pethealth, she has streamlined the legal process within the corporation, which was hereto an outside law firm project,» says Chhina.

«Obviously there is the working with outside counsel piece, and I would like to share my experiences over the years — what I've learned, mistakes I've made and areas where I think I've made things better with outside counsel,» says Andree, who has tackled the billing issue and how to achieve efficiencies with outside counsel.

In 2007, United Technologies» general counsel created a program to discourage its hundreds of outside law firms from using hourly rates, and over the past five years the company has significantly increased its use of non-hourly fees, Greenspan said.

«Medical and mental health information» includes all information present in the medical or mental health record, information given or received over the telephone, by facsimile, e-mail, or other forms of communication, and medical or mental health information acquired formally or informally by any means within and outside the Student Health and Counseling Center on a Student Health and Counseling Center patient.

He has successfully helped couples at every stage of a relationship, from pre-marital counseling to addressing issues of communication, infidelity, addiction, conflict resolution, sexual challenges, children, blended family dynamics, and division of labor inside and outside the home for newly married couples to those married over 30 years.

The board handed the letter over to its audit committee, which then contacted outside counsel and accounting consultants to conduct an independent investigation, Kmart said.