Sentences with phrase «significant number of law»

While we complete a significant number of law firm placements, generally, each year, over 80 % of our placements are with corporate legal departments.

I expect a significant number of law firms to take advantage of the LDP provisions, and we should see solicitors, barristers, patent and trade mark attorneys, legal executives and licensed conveyancers as co-owners of law firms by mid to late 2008.

As it turns out, a significant number of law students across the country were following my tweets.

The pattern of results suggests that certain aspects of legal education produce uncommonly elevated psychological distress levels among significant numbers of law students and recently graduated alumni.

Not exact matches

However analyses by law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) and Fitch Ratings show that a number of other changes to the tax code will also have significant effects upon the returns from renewable energy projects, the financing of these projects and the value of tax credits.

Of particular note was the discussion involving the significant decline in the number of major spamming organizations operating in Canada since the law took effecOf particular note was the discussion involving the significant decline in the number of major spamming organizations operating in Canada since the law took effecof major spamming organizations operating in Canada since the law took effect.

Furthermore, I believe the numbers are based on actual complaints and so are likely skewed among certain demographic sectors (e.g. those already wary of law enforcement) while completely missing a significant number of incidents lacking official doc - umentation.

I would be very suprised to hear any significant number of Muslims condeming the «sharia» law of Muslim countries.

As of next season, the Laws of the game are changing in a number of small, but perhaps significant ways.

Late last week, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz vetoed legislation that would require Erie County to purchase American - made products for contracts of $ 10,000 or more, saying he had a number of significant issues with the bill that made it impossible for him to sign it into law.

«Angelina is a skilled attorney whose prior work at a number of City agencies and ability to navigate the intricacies of municipal regulations and administrative law are significant assets to our borough.

In it's report, the CFB listed a number of campaign finance violations by Stringer 2005, with the most significant being Stringer 2005 spending more in it's campaign than permitted by law.

However, under a law passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Cuomo last spring, charters are poised to change the annual lottery process to set aside a significant number of seats for children of their employees, including employees of charter management organizations.

«This study evaluated the number of minors who visited an emergency department over a two year period for injuries resulting from contact with law enforcement and demonstrates this issue comes with significant financial, if not human, cost,» says Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM, Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UH Rainbow and the study's senior investigator.

States including California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, and Nebraska have ruled out state takeovers for schools in restructuring, because either state law does not permit it or the state department of education lacks the capacity to manage a significant number of schools.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

The number of these new schools is likely to be small, so this policy will have a much less significant effect on the education system than the law now being passed to enable maintained schools to convert to academy status.

The damage done to significant number of Bridgeport's special education students and the violation of federal and state laws that are in place to ensure special education students get the services they need and deserve, is a direct result of Paul Vallas» policy of arrogance and deceit.

In handling a significant number of discrimination charges from the administrative process and through litigation, our firm is familiar to the nuances of the law and recent trends in their interpretations.

Signed into law in December 2015, ESSA has made a number of significant changes to the Title I programs.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

Title I, Part A, Sec. 1111 of the law declares, «The Secretary shall not attempt to influence, incentivize, or coerce State adoption of the Common Core State Standards... or any other academic standards common to a significant number of States, or assessments tied to such standards.»

And last year we passed three state laws on puppy mils, which was the first time in a number of years that we have had any significant progress in that arena.

The result of this is a threefold whammy: 1) unlicensed activities continue at the same rate (or increase as the human population increases); 2) a significant number of pet owners who want to be law - abiding citizens give up banned breeds, quit feeding neighborhood cats or terminate valuable breeding programs rather than operate illegally or cope with unreasonable laws and increased fees; and 3) because demand for many beloved breeds does not decline when a law is passed, people who know little about breeds or breeding move into the void to fill demand.

The federal government has instituted a number of significant tax law changes that every small, independent pet retailer should understand.

She said while the numbers of Aboriginals going into law has steadily increased, that 1.5 per cent remained constant and is an indicator there is a significant retention problem.

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear five appeals including a number of significant cases that will determine the rights of the Crown to «take up» Aboriginal lands under treaty; the right of public - sector workers in Saskatchewan to strike; and the extent of solicitor - client privilege as it pertains to money laundering laws.

The governing bodies of law societies should be made up of elected lawyers, as well as a significant number of appointed lawyers and non-lawyers.

I don't doubt that correcting the heavy over-population of lawyers will take more than a few years, but this seems like a rather significant drop in the number of law school applicants.

Today, law firms have to be sensitive and be prepared to take constructive action if a significant number of partners believe there are areas of practice the firm ought to be in so that it may provide better service to its key clients, or there are practice areas in which the firm is so weak that it would be doing its clients a favor by eliminating it and referring them to better specialists.

While the Commission called for comment on a number of significant issues, my comments focused on alternative providers of legal services and regulatory innovations, including non-lawyer ownership interest in law firms.

In this connection, VATIER has gained significant access to international resources by becoming a member of The International Society of Primerus Law Firms, with its large number of member firms, selected for their expertise, making it possible to put together high level transnational teams to meet client needs.

Moran: If you are growing as a legal department and you have a number of law firms that are providing invoices with a significant number of detailed line items, that's when you consider an LBR service.

Partner numbers across the UK top 50 have grown almost 7 % this year, as a number of significant mergers continue to drive headcount growth at leading law firms.

Law firms big and small have responded through aggressive cost reductions, including lowering associate salaries and laying off significant numbers of staff.

«We are losing a significant number of women from the practice of law all together,» says Beth Symes, a member of the committee that proposed the program.

The Law School Admissions Council has released data on law school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the countLaw School Admissions Council has released data on law school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the countlaw school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the country.

My prediction is that we will see a significant increase in the number of law firms, both consumer and corporate - focused, investing in social advertising to enhance their

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

My prediction is that we will see a significant increase in the number of law firms, both consumer and corporate - focused, investing in social advertising to enhance their social media efforts during the coming year.

Indeed, we are already seeing a significant rise in the number of people looking to either change specialism or move away from law in its entirety.

By having such a large segment of our workforce employed at Marshall Dennehey for a significant number of years — and in many cases, this has been the only law firm at which they have worked — our clients realize tangible benefits.

Notable mandates: Represent the plaintiffs in a proposed class action against provincial law enforcement agencies regarding allegedly negligent use of breathalyzer machines; acts for hundreds of pre-sale contract holders with various condominium developments who are disputing their requirement to close under consumer protection laws; defended a law firm in a four - week hearing over enforcement of a significant contingency fee agreement; acted for a number of clients in online defamation cases

«D4 has gained significant traction this past year in many Midwest markets, particularly in Chicago where we have added a number of large corporate and law firm clients.

Nearly 60 per cent of the youngest lawyers in Ontario are women, a significant demographic shift driven in large part by the increasing number of «racialized» women entering the profession, according to a report released by the Law Society of Upper Canada last week.

In particular, there are now a significant number of Indigenous scholars in law schools across the country who have become conversant with their legal traditions, who are continuing that apprenticeship with humility, dedication and rigour, and who are contributing to the process of reimagining the Canadian legal landscape.

For individuals, its attempt to cover law and practice in a whole number of areas is understandable but does mean that this can not be less than its 60 - odd pages and significant detail can not be avoided.

Should we not be counting the very significant numbers of Canadian students attending foreign law schools (possibly because they could not get into Canadian schools) then wanting to article here?

Despite significant individual and organizational efforts, including those of the Law Societies, the «crisis» only seems to be growing, highlighted perhaps most starkly by the numbers of self - represented litigants appearing in courts across the country.

The Act makes a number of significant changes to employment law that will come into force over the following months.