Sentences with phrase «rules as any other business»

After all law firms are businesses too, and should expect to operate by the same rules as any other business.

A victory for openness, and a clear message to those global corporations that shift profits to low tax havens, that we expect them to play by the same rules as every other business.

Not exact matches

(The Ogden and Cole memos assure the industry that federal law enforcement agents will not step in as long as businesses follow the rules and do not act as fronts for organized crime, do not sell to kids, and avoid other federal enforcement priorities.)

The Arbitration shall be held either: (i) at a location determined by JAMS (or, if applicable, AAA) pursuant to the Applicable Rules (provided that such location is reasonably convenient for you and does not require travel in excess of 100 miles from your home or place of business); or (ii) at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by you and NBCUniversal; or (iii) at your election, if the only claims in the arbitration are asserted by you and are for less than $ 10,000 in aggregate, by telephone or by written submission.

The tacit endorsement of the event by top U.S. tech executives comes as China introduces strict new rules on censorship and data storage, causing headaches for foreign tech firms permitted to do business in China and signaling that restrictions banning others are unlikely to be lifted any time soon.

Pai, chosen by Trump in January to head the agency, also has said he wants to dismantle other significant regulations as part of a sweeping review he said would remove barriers to business and modernize rules.

A successful business uses what Falkenstein calls the Platinum Rule: «Do unto others as they would do unto themselves.»

Gary Cohn, President Trump's top economic advisor, said that the effort by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan to jointly address healthcare was the same as the administration was doing by proposing rules to make it easier for self - employed Americans, small businesses and others to band together to get insurance through what are called association health plans.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

The corner stone of ALL religions is also the ONLY religious principle that I was taught in the «business ethics» class I took in college... Put simply, if everyone did their very best to follow the «the golden rule» (i.e. due unto others as you would have them do unto you) in everything they do, WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY TODAY EVEN WITHOUT ORGANIZED RELIGION OF ANY KIND.

Because of Muslim rules governing butchering, Muslims have become involved in the butchering business not only in the northwest, but in many other provinces as well.

But for the most part, routine ruled human affairs and «news» as we think we know it began with business, when trading associations in Northern Europe shared information about commodity prices and other conditions that would affect profit, developing newsletters with the new print technology.

Catholic businesses are employers, many receive Federal funding and payments, and should be subject to the same Federal rules and regulations as other US employers.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Bay Area Green Business Program, Fish Friendly Farming, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play an important role in the California wine community's efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, socially equitable and economically feasible.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Bay Area Green Business Program, Fish Friendly Farming, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play vital roles in the California wine community's successful efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially responsible.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Fish Friendly Farming, Bay Area Green Business Program, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play an important role in the California wine community's efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially equitable.

Wigg had said, among other things, that «the Jockey Club's discipline is so soft that the rules are ignored and derided;» that «jockeys have developed the business of «covering up» or disguising an attempt to lose into something close to an art;» that «bookmakers, as a profession, are not very intelligent — neither was the dinosaurus and the dinosaurus got stuffed; if they are not careful so will the bookmakers, for the same reason;» and that jockeys «are not as fully developed as the average young male of the same age, so it is quite likely that if their bodies are not fully developed, then their IQs will not be very high, either.»

Arsenal is a business, and same rules apply as theydo withany other company — you stagnate, you look to see why.

Lisa Levy from Bay Ridge Democrats jumped in to point out that the County rules require a discussion of committee reports, such as that produced by the Special Committee on Rules, before any other business is entertarules require a discussion of committee reports, such as that produced by the Special Committee on Rules, before any other business is entertaRules, before any other business is entertained.

A bill sponsored by Senate Health Chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Nassau County) from 2013 through 2016 called for a pilot project that would authorize business corporations to acquire as many as 10 hospitals.68 These corporations could not be publicly traded, but their owners would be exempt from other requirements, including the «natural person» rule, character and competence reviews and prior approval of sales and transfers.

Characterizing its practice as a «general practice for a specialized clientele,» the firm provides legal advice and expertise to handle any and all needs of a school district, including fair dismissal personnel issues, allegations of employment discrimination and EEOC complaints, other personnel disputes, student discipline issues, student tribunal hearings, civil rights claims, personal injury actions, federal and state constitutional claims and other litigation, special education and other legal issues involving disabled students, contracts, leases and other business needs, policy and rule development, construction disputes, bond and SPLOST issues and other financial matters.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

Actually, if you read the other question and its answers carefully, the answers point out that business accounts can have different rules, e.g. the person signing the cheques can be changed (e.g. new Treasurer) without changing the business account which can not be done for personal accounts, but if you don't have need for such facilities, a personal account will work just as well for a self - employed person or small business.

Purchase or sell commodities (unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other investments) or commodity futures contracts, except that the Fund may purchase and sell futures contracts and options to the full extent permitted under the 1940 Act, sell foreign currency contracts in accordance with any rules of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, invest in securities or other instruments backed by commodities, and invest in companies that are engaged in a commodities business or have a significant portion of their assets in commodities; or

If everyone would go into business with a giving heart and the Golden Rule — to treat others as you would LIKE to be treated — the world would be a much better place.

In order to step up the rule of law, not only must the United States and other countries continue to engage China, but it would be to our advantage to expand our diplomatic missions within China as to be able to engage and talk to local officials as well as fight for the rights of American companies looking to do business there.

Co-ops do not fall under the same exact rules as other regular businesses, as those who receive co-op benefits must be members that agree to co-op conditions.

Paul Bains, the lawyer who leveraged DocuSign for bankruptcy petitions and other important matters, used the software in place of original signatures as is done in many commercial settings in the US and globally.Judge Robert Bardwil of the U.S. Bankruptcy court in California ruled that while DocuSign is appropriate in many business settings, overall it does not constitute as a replacement for original signatures on legal documents and the like.

As NSU explains, «This course provides hands - on experience for students on a number of key operational aspects of the practice of law, including the business foundation of successful law firm management; security and confidentiality of client information; marketing, public relations, advertising and social media; duties of technological competence under ABA «Ethics 20/20» amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility; predictive coding and other eDiscovery issues; client intake and case management; and issues related to the scope and composition of representation, including the unauthorized practice of law and unbundled legal services.»

Not making a profit does not make you a non-profit or non-commercial, and you can still generate income as a business and be a non-profit so long as after operating expenses all money goes back into the business, among (many) other rules.

It is designed as an exception to the general prohibition stated in Rule 5.4 that lawyers may not share fees or enter into business relationships with individuals other than lawyers.

My number one rule as a business owner, I don't know if it's other peoples number one rule, but mine, is when I don't know how to do it, and on the technology side I'm 34 so I'm young enough to understand technology but I haven't immersed myself in technology, I would by no means call myself a technology expert, so when you're talking about systems and coordination and merging things, my number one rule is find someone I like, find someone I trust, and do whatever they tell me to do frankly.

These include laws on information and consultation on collective redundancies; rules on working time; some of the EU - derived health and safety regulations; parts of the regulations which protect workers in the event of a transfer of undertaking; legislation protecting agency workers and other «atypical» workers; and, some elements of discrimination law to which businesses object most strongly such as liability for equal pay.

(1) Regarding the formation and effect of a contract (excluding labor contracts; hereinafter referred to in this Article as «consumer contract») between a consumer (i.e., an individual, excluding those cases where the party acts as a business or for a business) and a business operator (i.e., a juridical person or other corporate association, or an individual in those cases where the party is acting as a business or for a business), even where by choice under Article 7 or variation under Article 9, the applicable law would be a law other than that of the consumer's habitual residence, when the consumer indicates to the business operator his or her intention that a particular mandatory rule from within the law of the consumer's habitual residence should apply, this mandatory rule shall also apply to the matters covered by the rule concerning the consumer contract's formation and effect.

Our debt finance group is supported by members of other subgroups within the Business Department, including mergers and acquisitions (for all sizes of transactions, for public and private clients, and on both the buyer and seller sides), investment management (for clients with investment management divisions and matters), small business investment companies (for clients looking to form SBICs, obtain SBIC funding, or conduct portfolio financing transactions), securities (for public clients, particularly with respect to public and Rule 144A debt offerings), tax (including for cross-border transactions), ERISA / employee benefits and international (for clients with international operations and assets), as well as other practice groups within the Firm, including Cleantech & Renewables, Patent, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition practices and the Labor and Employment pBusiness Department, including mergers and acquisitions (for all sizes of transactions, for public and private clients, and on both the buyer and seller sides), investment management (for clients with investment management divisions and matters), small business investment companies (for clients looking to form SBICs, obtain SBIC funding, or conduct portfolio financing transactions), securities (for public clients, particularly with respect to public and Rule 144A debt offerings), tax (including for cross-border transactions), ERISA / employee benefits and international (for clients with international operations and assets), as well as other practice groups within the Firm, including Cleantech & Renewables, Patent, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition practices and the Labor and Employment pbusiness investment companies (for clients looking to form SBICs, obtain SBIC funding, or conduct portfolio financing transactions), securities (for public clients, particularly with respect to public and Rule 144A debt offerings), tax (including for cross-border transactions), ERISA / employee benefits and international (for clients with international operations and assets), as well as other practice groups within the Firm, including Cleantech & Renewables, Patent, Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition practices and the Labor and Employment practice.

We'll finish up by saying congratulations to Vantage Asia who are at least attempting to create dialogue about rights based law in China as a part of their daily business activities — and to the other independents for working on the ground with freelancers and local firms to create alternative channels of communication that we hope in the future will bring rule of law by stealth.

Bodine says the ruling means that law firms can now buy and sell other firms as investments, pick up other firms to handle spikes in business, or even own smaller firms so they can bill out certain work at lower rates.

A LinkedIn page would clearly constitute a «communication,» defined among other things in Rule 1.400 as «(2) Any stationery, letterhead, business card, sign, brochure, or other comparable written material describing such member, law firm, or lawyers; or (3) Any advertisement (regardless of medium) of such member or law firm directed to the general public or any substantial portion thereof.

Counsel not admitted to the practice of law in this jurisdiction but admitted in any other U.S. jurisdiction or foreign jurisdiction, who is employed as a lawyer in Wisconsin on a continuing basis and employed exclusively by a corporation, association, or other nongovernmental entity, the business of which is lawful and consists of activities other than the practice of law or the provision of legal services, shall register as in - house counsel within 60 days after the commencement of employment as a lawyer or if currently so employed then within 90 days of the effective date of this rule, by submitting to the Board of Bar Examiners the following:

Complaint investigations and random audits, performed by federal and state investigators, as well as outside contractors, will identify businesses at risk — and self - reporting rules will identify others when they must disclose their data breaches on The Wall of Shame.

4.2 - 0 In this rule, «marketing» includes advertisements and other similar communications in various media as well as firm names (including trade names), letterhead, business cards and logos.

Where a health care clearinghouse creates or receives protected health information other than as a business associate, however, it must comply with all the standards, requirements, and implementation specifications of the rule.

Consequently, once protected health information leaves the purview of one of these covered entities, their business associates, or other related entities (such as plan sponsors), the information is no longer afforded protection under this rule.

«As the Supreme Court and the Advisory Commission began to develop the rules and procedure for our pilot project, there was no definitive overview of the other states that have gone before us in implementing a business court.

A group health plan or health insurance issuer or HMO, or their business associate on their behalf, may perform such analyses for an employer customer and provide the results in de-identified form to the customer, using integrated data received from other insurers, as long as protected health information is not disclosed in violation of this rule.

A covered entity may disclose protected health information to a business associate, consistent with the other requirements of the final rule, as necessary to permit the business associate to perform functions and activities for or on behalf of the covered entity, or to provide the services specified in the business associate definition to or for the covered entity.

A clearinghouse (or any other covered entity) that violates the terms of a business associate contract also is in direct violation of this rule and, as a covered entity, is subject to compliance and enforcement action.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.

Clearinghouses acting as business associates are not subject to the other requirements of this rule, which include the provisions relating to procedural requirements, requirements for obtaining consent, individual authorization or agreement, provision of a notice, individual rights to request privacy protection, access and amend information and receive an accounting of disclosures and the administrative requirements.

Even more important perhaps is the fact that, right from the start, the police took on the codes not as «best practice», ie rules to be followed by other people, but as the ordinary way of conducting business, ie rules to be followed by everyone.