Sentences with phrase «several years of litigation»

For a few years, our Associate Librarian for Patron Services who has several years of litigation experience has been teaching a 1 - credit course called Legal Research Skills for Practice.

On Feb. 24, after several years of litigation, the 17 tons of silver coins recovered from the ship were flown from the U.S. to Spain.

After several years of litigation, the rule came into effect in 2015.

Not exact matches

The case, and several like it in the past year, may be harbingers of a new cycle of 401 (k)- gone - bad litigation, this time targeting ever - smaller retirement plans.

In Hoosick Falls, where several banks suspended property financing and declined to issue mortgages last year, the litigation represents a potential recovery for thousands of property owners who believe the values of their homes and businesses were diminished by the stigma caused by the pollution.

Only after 20 years of bitter litigation did Gould win several key patents, beginning in 1977.

Though an extremely controversial law, much contested in legislative, administrative, and even electoral venues for the past several years, No Child Left Behind (NLCB) has not generated a large volume of litigation.

«Pursuing creative but untested notions of demand as a demand resource in upcoming capacity market auctions and thus facing the prospect of several years of uncertain administrative and judicial litigation serves to undermine completely the very purpose of the capacity market — namely, to provide a certain stream of forward revenues to assist capital formation for resource investment.»

Successfully resolving claims against clients for over 25 years on terms favorable to clients, including technology vendor contract disputes and other commercial litigation, lease disputes for national and regional companies, and early resolution of several class action claims against national retailers and international travel company.

Preparation of litigation graphics starts early to allow for several rounds of testing, refinement and approval over the course of the year.

While Ms. Blanch's practice has an emphasis in product liability, she has handled litigation of all types and sizes over the past several years, ranging from catastrophic personal injury claims to employment litigation; from commercial disputes to insurance coverage lawsuits.

He has more than a decade of experience in criminal defense litigation, as well as several years as a Cook County assistant state's attorney prosecuting various types of crimes.

His team has also won several awards in recent years, including the Financial News Financial Litigation Team of the Year in 2013 and 2015.

One of us (Walter Olson) has been writing about these topics for twenty years as the author of several books («The Litigation Explosion,» «The Excuse Factory,» «The Rule of Lawyers») and a great many shorter articles.

Registering a trademark, however, grants you several exclusive rights, including nationwide trademark rights, access to federal courts for litigation, constructive use and notice (meaning others can not feign ignorance of your trademark), and it may become uncontestable after five years of unopposed registration.

In the last several months, we have had several very junior and mid-level lawyers for various periods of time working in both our litigation support and contracts management departments, and have senior (more than 15 years) lawyers in operational and executive positions — a few of whom actually live in and work out of Delhi, and some of whom travel and work between India and their bases in the United States.

Before moving in to the field of knowledge management and legal technology, April worked in private practice for several years specialising in public law litigation and administrative law.

Instead, a legal cause of action may take several months, perhaps years, of litigation before a settlement.

Personal injury Plaintiffs May Benefit from New Litigation Funding Marketplace Frequently, people who sue as a result of a personal injury have to wait several years to be compensated.

Jenner has its practice broadly divided between litigation and business transactions groups, with several disciplines in each, and at the beginning of each year each group develops its own strategic plan.

In the last several years, with only around 50 patent infringement actions started per year, other than Dovden Investments, this type of patent litigation does not appear to have become a significant part of Canadian patent litigation landscape.

Kate has several years of legal experience acquired first throughout her years as a law student, and later during her articling year where she focused on personal injury litigation from a Plaintiff's perspective.

For the last several years Stephen has led the firm's litigation arising from TCP contamination of drinking water supplies.

Several years before this litigation ensued, the Corporation's legal counsel published a newsletter about two Ontario Court of Appeal decisions (Nippissing Condominium Corporation No. 4 v. Kilfoyl and Chan v. Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 1834) which clarified the meaning «single family» in the condominium context.

Al is a member of the Houston Bar Association, where has served as chair of each of the Law Practice Management and Cyberlaw Sections, and has also served on the editorial board of The Houston Lawyer magazine for several years and as guest editor of special issues — most recently of the IP / Litigation issue, and has written substantive law articles and software / hardware product reviews.

The Competition Act contains several provisions designed to prevent strategic litigation, including a prohibition on cases proceeding where the Commissioner is investigating or has settled a matter, as well as provisions setting out the ability of the Tribunal to award costs against any party, the right of the Commissioner to intervene in proceedings, and a one - year limitation on the commencement of proceedings from the cessation of the conduct being questioned.

U.S. News & World Report has named GWM among its best law firms for the past several years, and identified Ralph Weber as the «Lawyer of the Year» for Bet - the - Company Litigation in Milwaukee.

Lewis and Robison will reunite with several former Vinson & Elkins partners who joined Gibson Dunn's Dallas office earlier this year, including William Dawson, formerly the head of Vinson & Elkins» litigation and regulatory department; Michael Raiff, who served as Vinson & Elkins» media practice leader; corporate partners Jeffrey Chapman and Robert Little; and Robert Walters, formerly Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Energy Future Holdings (fka TXU Corp.), who had previously been a litigation partner at Vinson & Elkins.

Over the past several years this has proven to be a very successful approach to all litigation matters, whether before Small Claims Court, the Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of Canada.

Gelu Maravela was thus named the Best Lawyers» 2014 - 2015 Bucharest Energy Law «Lawyer of the Year» and has been ranked in several other practice areas such as Arbitration and Mediation, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation, Natural Resources Law, Project Finance and Development Practice.

Among many other accolades, each of the partners in our practice is recognized by Chambers USA as among the best in the United States in Labor & Employment litigation or ERISA litigation, and each likewise has appeared for several consecutive years on Human Resource Executive's «Most Powerful Employment Attorneys» list.

In - House eDiscovery Platform vs. Software as a Service — presented last year at the annual meeting of the ABA Section of Litigation, she lays out several key budget considerations and proposes a spreadsheet format to calculate those items.

In fact, several eDiscovery watchers have tracked the direction of regulatory - driven litigation for multiple years, led by the Norton Rose Fulbright» Annual Survey of Litigatilitigation for multiple years, led by the Norton Rose Fulbright» Annual Survey of LitigationLitigation Trends.

And in at least couple of other instances I can recall there were extremely large litigations in the US — ones in which the billings were several million dollars per year — that migrated to AdvanceLaw firms.

Robert has managed the firm's Specialist Quality Mark over the last several years and is a member of the Property Litigation Association.

For 15 years, Scott has defended the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in litigation arising out of several failed banks — including Washington Mutual Bank and IndyMac Bank — involving their asset - backed securitization businesses, alleged tax liabilities and deposit insurance limitations.

Paula also practiced for several years within the legal clinic system, in the areas of human rights, disability and employment - related litigation.

For several years running The European Legal 500, Chambers & Partners have highly recommended the team led by Elena Trusova as one of the strongest in Russia and Elena is named recommended individual in her practice areas: «Department head Elena Trusova is well known for trade mark protection and litigation work and has practical experience of handling high - profile cases.»

Over the last several years, the use of alternate dispute resolution in divorce and other litigation matters has increased in popularity.

He spent several years in the 1980's practicing with a firm, which specialized in construction litigation, and where he was responsible for all of the firm's tort and criminal cases.

For several years, Al was an instructor in the civil litigation section of the Bar Admission Course.

Prior to joining DAC Beachcroft Dublin Rachel trained and gained several years» experience dealing with a broad range of litigation at a leading law firm in Galway who specialise in litigation and insurance defence work.

Mr. Papantonio is also nationally known for his success in mass tort litigation, recipient of multiple prestigious awards (like Trial Lawyer of the Year and the Perry Nichols), and accomplished author of several motivational books for lawyers.

In the past several years, the number of ANDA litigations has significantly increased.

The Arbitration Law is also expected to modernise the UAE's arbitration regime and bring it more in line with international best practice; currently, there are just 16 provisions governing arbitration in the UAE, set out in Articles 203 to 218 of the CPL.. These are broadly drafted and a key concern for arbitrating parties has been the wide scope for challenges permitted (or at least not expressly prohibited) under the CPL; it is not uncommon for parties to face several months (if not years) of litigation in order to enforce arbitral awards in the UAE.

They also point to a number of other papers in para. 55 that are probably worth looking at, including several by Prof. Steven Pitel of UWO Law who taught me International Commercial Litigation earlier this year, when Van Breda was released.

Ms. Salter clerked with the British Columbia Supreme Court, practiced litigation at a large Vancouver law firm for several years, and has served as a vice chair of the Workers» Compensation Appeal Tribunal.

For several years, he taught a course on patent litigation as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law.

The jury's verdict erased several hundred million dollars sought in treble damages, plus attorneys» fees, and brought nine years of litigation to a close.

Although patent litigation insurance has existed in some form for several years, it has become increasingly popular as of late.