Sentences with phrase «taking outside law firms»

Add in an attorney whose trademark search engine bests the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office system while his prices stay low, a general counsel taking outside law firms to school for not knowing their own software, and a lawyer / software engineer invoking the name of Hammurabi as he turns law into computer code.

Not exact matches

As a result, Eric Hatfield, from RIA Hatfield Insurance and Financial Services in Sherman Oaks, California, said his firm now will not adapt the paperwork that its outside law firm had drafted to be used when the DOL rule takes effect but will continue to work on behalf of the best interests of its clients as always.

Disposition: Applebee's esteemed outside law firm: Stinson, Morrison, Hecker, LLP wrote on July 28, 2010: «As you may know, Applebee's is the owner of many registered trademarks on its own... Accordingly, it is very eager to ensure that its activities do not infringe any third party's valid trademark rights... -LCB- Applebee's -RCB- intends to take no action on your cease and desist / settlement demand.»

Heastie, an accountant by training, has not received outside income since becoming speaker; Flanagan resigned from his law firm when he took the leadership post.

The governor's speech comes shortly after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal law enforcement officials and accused of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks as part of his work with two outside law firms.

Even if Silver was taking the money and not detailing it — he recently admitted the $ 650,000 in outside earnings he listed on his 2013 disclosure form included private law clients in addition to payments from Weitz & Luxenberg, a large plaintiff's firm — a failure of disclosure is not a federal offense.

The feds took specific aim at Skelos» claim that he'd walled off his government and outside legal work - noting that he met with a lobbyist who was doing business with the state including «legislative issues relating to pharmacies» at his law firm.

Inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.

One summer afternoon in 1989, a young law firm associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.

In an egregious case of abuse, the former superintendent of tiny Mountain Empire Unified School District in San Diego County pleaded guilty last year to violating conflict of interest laws for personally taking a cut of the oversight fees and creating a consulting firm to serve the 13 independent study charters, operating outside of Mountain Empire, that his district approved.

Carolyn Elefant isn't completely sold on the alleged consumer benefits of a new British initiative to allow outside investors to own law firms and even take them public — she even goes so far as to invoke the E-word [Enron].

Taken as a whole, these amendments set the stage for The Law Society of Manitoba to move towards stronger and more effective protection of the public interest through a more diverse governing body, introduction of multi-disciplinary practices and opportunities for participation in and ownership of firms by those outside the legal profession.

Patrick Hurley, VP of customer advocacy at Elite, tells us that Gap will bring greater resource and experience of both the legal and non-legal sector — useful as law firms increasingly take notes from outside of the sector.

Our law firm takes great pride in coming together on behalf of the individual to protect against what might seem like overwhelming legal opposition, often involving companies with ties outside the United States.

As I entered the law firm world, the Partner - in - Charge of Marketing and the Partner - in - Charge of Recruiting really took the time to help me understand not only the practice areas of the firm, but how to network and relate to people both inside and outside the firm.

Afterall the template for allowing outside investment in law firms is there for the taking, and has been for some time.

The average time taken by Kia's nine outside law firms?

«General counsel are hiring corporate counsel, patent attorneys and contract managers to take on more work in - house and reduce their spending on outside law firms,» said Charles Volkert, executive director of Robert Half Legal in an announcement on the survey results.

It provides a legal department view of value, pricing, law firm panel consolidation and the ongoing analysis of whether to take work in - house or send projects to outside counsel.

Corker Binning's extradition work is often high - profile, and the firm devotes itself to taking on complex or unusual extradition cases which raise novel points of law, whether under the European Arrest Warrant scheme or cases emanating from outside the EU.

Corporate clients, under intense internal pressure to reduce the overall costs of legal services, insisted on taking control of their matters and managing the work of their outside law firms to a degree never before seen.

Which brings me to the other (much larger) group — law firm lawyers who base their livelihoods on billable hours and pursuit of associate leverage — and in - house lawyers who pretty much take their professional cues (they'd contend vociferously that this isn't the case) from what their counterparts in outside law firms do.

In part two, coming soon, Mark takes Bill through the sharing of the results of the performance evaluations with outside law firms.

Alternatively, instead of recruiting a dedicated project manager from outside law, firms may consider taking on a manager from a business development or learning and development background − someone who has project management experience and is now ready to take it to a more specialised level.

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He then joined the number 1 ranked firm in Africa where he specialised in insurance law and also gained experience in corporate law (mergers and acquisitions), where he was involved in the largest M&A transaction to have taken place outside the USA.

No amount of promises about secure access could persuade a law firm to allow its word processing or presentation preparation or spreadsheet construction to take place on a machine outside the control of the firm.

We hope that many law firms, corporations, and trade bodies both from Hyperledger and outside will take the opportunity to join,» he added.

«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.

Of course outside of North America, the walls have started to crumble by allowing non-lawyers to take equity interests in law firms.

Rather, law firms should be asking what is the best way to partner with clients to solve legal problems taking into consideration possible resources outside the scope of the law firm's operations — including legal process outsourcing providers.For example, does it make sense to staff a file with juniors when work can be outsourced to an alternate legal services provider at half the cost?

Shirley, currently the firm's chief operating officer, will take over from Michael Warren following his decision to move into a new role outside of legal services; Michael will nonetheless remain part of Minster Law as a non-executive director.

In November of 2010 I took a leap of faith, gave up a guaranteed salary and opened my own North Carolina law firm to devote my practice to resolving divorce, custody, alimony, property division and other family law issues outside of the courtroom.