Sentences with phrase «said about litigation»

As leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has said about litigation funding, «The involvement of a funder adds an additional layer of diligence at an early stage of the process, leading to greater rigour in risk and cost - benefit assessment.»

Considering both tort costs and tort laws and what they say about the litigation outlook for businesses, the study grouped the states into four categories:

Not exact matches

Speaking to CNBC about the results, Ermotti said the highlight of the year was more clarity on international banking regulation, and the fact that the bank reduced its litigation portfolio further.

That a Fortune 15 corporation would send even one person to such an event says something about the stakes involved in litigation targeting companies in the opioid supply chain.

The litigation against 150 - employee Banana Bungalow has resulted in an increase in the company's premiums from about $ 6,000 to $ 14,000 a year, says Buckley.

«Indeed, the letter contains only a passing reference to this litigation — nothing more, and says nothing about patents or the alleged misappropriation,» according to Uber's filing.

Asked about these matters, Kevin Heine, a Bank of New York Mellon spokesman, said, «We believe an $ 8.5 billion bird - in - the - hand settlement with significant servicing improvements is a far better result for all investors than the likely outcome following years of costly litigation.»

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

Martijn Wilder, Baker & McKenzie partner in charge of global environmental markets and climate change, said the firm hadn't done much climate litigation in the past but the pace of inquiries from companies seeking reassurance about any potential liability had quickened.

Issues hitting investor sentiment about the outlook for Deutsche Bank include a lengthy restructuring process that will be costly to see through, «unpredictable» litigation costs that are likely to remain high, and earnings under pressure from a difficult market, Adamson said.

Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York and the former head of the New York State Office of Climate Change, said he wasn't concerned about the impact of Schneiderman's resignation on ongoing environmental litigation, in part because it's likely that anyone who replaces him will also be a Democrat in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 3 to 1.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

«Although this litigation is brought under the ADA, with the DOJ driving it, when we are talking broadly about educating children with disabilities, the disability - rights community is incredibly concerned about Secretary [Betsy] DeVos and her views and policy directions,» Barkoff said.

«We look forward to uncovering additional evidence in the discovery phase of this litigation,» said Berman in a press release about the motion today.

The research showed that «plan sponsors and recordkeepers might not be on the same page in thinking about topics related to improving the quality of the investment lineup, minimizing fiduciary risk / avoiding litigation and reducing plan administration costs,» Jessica Sclafani, retirement director at Cerulli, said in a statement.

«The Canada Revenue Agency has become very aggressive about tax shelters, particularly those that have an underlying component of charitable donations,» says David W. Chodikoff, a tax litigation specialist at law firm Goodman and Carr in Toronto.

I know something about securities issues, and if an e-mail in an accountant's production in a securities litigation said what this one does, there easily could be discussions about criminal liability (think of an accountant speaking about financial statements in a prospectus and acknowledging that «we did not get right at all»).

Notably, when the reporters were asked the one thing they would most want to change about the litigation process, over 70 percent said they would make it easier for the news media to access court documents.

But it's important to note that it's not just about litigation, where there is another side (though it often is about criminal law, where as Jordan says, and the criminal lawyer in the article says, the public is inclined to associate lawyers with their clients).

Finally, after writing a lot about handling problems before litigation is started, I will say a few words about expert witness services supporting litigation.

Lord Justice Jackson said this about legal aid in his recent report on the funding of litigation:

«Justice Camp's shocking comments perpetuate harmful stereotypes and myths about sexual assault complainants,» says Raji Mangat, Director of Litigation at West Coast LEAF.

It will be interesting to see what the Supreme Court of Canada says about deference on questions of constitutional law in its decision, expected next year, in the Trinity Western University litigation.

Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, who has written extensively about the opioid litigation, said the growing problem of overdose deaths and the publicity surrounding them may put pressure on state and local officials to initiate or join opioid lawsuits.

Anthem Inc (ANTM.N), the largest U.S. health insurance company, has agreed to settle litigation over hacking in 2015 that compromised about 79 million people's personal information for $ 115 million, which lawyers said would be the largest settlement ever for a data breach.

The brand name association Rx & D issued a statement saying it is happy about the patent - term extension and an improved right of appeal for some types of litigation.

«With millions of people sharing details about their personal lives and professional activities online, data stored on social media networks and mobile devices are increasingly relevant to litigation,» said Charles Volkert, senior district president of Robert Half Legal.

You may make offers to each other and you may unburden yourselves to me about the strengths and weaknesses of your case, and about your hopes and fears in relation to the litigation, secure in the knowledge that nothing said today can be repeated in the outside world or, in particular, in court if today's process does not lead to a settlement.»

I love them more than life itself, and unfortunately, I can't say the same about litigation.

Ethics panels in the United States have said it is not proper for lawyers to become friends with someone to dig up information about them for use in a litigation matter.

Neither will automation mean an end to litigation, Sir Geoffrey Vos, chancellor of the High Court, said: predictions will never be 100 % correct — and in any case decisions about whether to pursue a case are not always taken by entirely rational people.

«The whole idea here is to think about litigation as an enterprise in which you are trying --- as Clausewitz says about war --- to impose your will on the enemy.

Clients are also getting savvy about the data they have in their systems on past litigation matters and they want to use it in the decision - making process and risk assessment process, says Gordon.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Here is the litigation blog list, plus what the ABA (or its readers) had to say about these blogs:

Roderick I» Anson Banks of Partnership Counsel in the UK here talks to Lawyer Monthly about his in - depth experience and practice in partnership and LLP law, particularly as regards disputes and the challenges and benefits of ADR, which he says, is definitely preferable to litigation, in almost any...

«Very often, the people who come to us are the smaller parties who are more constrained in relation to their cash flow and maybe hesitant about bringing a litigation claim against a bigger, more well - resourced opponent,» he says.

Most intellectual property litigation is, I think it fair to say, about something else.

Now, you do not know me, but I can tell you I have been saying for years and years that something has to be done about the outrageous time and cost of most litigation.

«Certainly we are concerned about the fact that the numbers are higher for remand custody than for an actual custodial sentence,» says Samira Mobina Ahmed, litigation lawyer at Justice for Children and Youth in Toronto, adding however that the gap looks pretty narrow.

repeatedly used as an example of a barrier to access to justice when the litigator saying it has nothing at all to say about the ruinously high cost of litigation, to have the Law Society spend all this time and effort on ABS while spending comparatively little time on investigating how to realistically reduce the cost of litigation.

By Ryan H. Flax (Former) Litigation Consultant What I'm about to encourage will seem elementary to the best litigators, but I'm writing from experience as a litigation consultant and a litigator when I say that many trial attorneys fail to properly develop the necessary two - track strategy for their case — and lose becaLitigation Consultant What I'm about to encourage will seem elementary to the best litigators, but I'm writing from experience as a litigation consultant and a litigator when I say that many trial attorneys fail to properly develop the necessary two - track strategy for their case — and lose becalitigation consultant and a litigator when I say that many trial attorneys fail to properly develop the necessary two - track strategy for their case — and lose because of it.

Assistant Pubic Defender Teresa Enriquez said many of the students she spoke with were passionate about litigating, or wanted exposure to the litigation process while still in school.

He says that while other students were fantasizing about litigation, he was in the library, envisioning his name on the spines of legal tomes.

That being said, I use Summation everyday to deal with my litigations and would be more than pleased to exxhange on experience and learn about your creative uses!

One month ago I wrote an article titled 9 Things Outside Litigation Counsel Say About In - house Counsel, and we recently included it in our free In - House Counsel Litigation Toolkit e-book.

Dallas attorney Michael Stewart, who heads the health care litigation department for the firm Godwin Lewis, said Pham's claims about Texas Health Resources not properly training its employees or providing proper equipment could fall under workers» compensation claims.

McLean says the reorganization has left about 60 percent of the firm focused on litigation and regulatory work.

Daya, managing partner of Fireman Daya & Co., says attendees will learn about issues that have received recent media attention in the context of civil litigation, including cyberbullying, club / bar assaults, parental responsibility and social host liability.

One attorney had this to say about Judge Perk: «Judge Perk was a hard - working jurist who for years demonstrated a fire in the belly to settle cases with the credibility of his understanding of both simple and complex litigation and a keen ability to cut to the chase to the real issues.