Sentences with phrase «than law department»

Paralegals working in law firms received somewhat higher increases than their law department peers, For exempt paralegals at firms, salaries increased by an average of 4.9 percent, compared to 3.8 percent in corporate law departments.

Bruce was remarking on the fact that the law firm managing partners are, in many ways, more aware of the pressure to change than their law department peers.

The design, budget and implementation of a litigation response plan should include a lot more stakeholders than law department staff (if you have one) and trusted outside counsel.

Many ALSPs offer services formerly provided only by law departments or law firms, that help clients solve legal and business problems «better / faster / cheaper» than law departments and firms; they specialize in developing legal technologies / automation, staffing inexpensive and swift cost centers to perform routinize - able tasks, and offering sophisticated expertise to deliver solutions via managed service offerings that can solve client problems or help advance their clients» businesses: all for a fraction of the cost and with a quantifiable level of consistency and competence.

Not exact matches

In the year following the law, there were 2.4 % fewer heart attack cases recorded in Accident and Emergency departments than the year before.

Also, if Trump was repaying Cohen in increments of less than $ 10,000 to avoid reporting to the Treasury Department, this could be a violation of federal banking laws.

That this House is concerned that the provisions of the Infant Formula and Follow - on Formula Regulations 2007 are disrespected in the UK, as evidenced by the current promotion for Nestlé SMA infant formula by Tesco in breach of Article 23 of that regulation, the near identical labelling of infant and follow - on formula to make them cross-promotional in breach of Article 19 of that regulation, the widespread advertising of infant formula brand names and logos in breach of Article 21 of that regulation and the use of idealising text and images on labels in breach of Article 17 of that regulation; therefore rejects the Department of Health's proposals to decriminalise certain of those requirements, such as labelling provisions in planned draft legislative proposals, related to EU Regulation 609/2015 which will replace these 2007 regulations; and stresses that any move to a system of Improvement Notices must have the purpose of speeding up compliance and be backed by prosecutions rather than giving companies who have flouted the law for many years additional time to comply.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which has been the main target of efforts to fire feds faster, dismissed more than 500 employees this year — even before a new accountability law took effect.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems which would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

With these concerns in mind, several elected officials and the operators of the Peace Bridge asked the state Department of Environmental Conservation this spring to begin enforcing a state law that prohibits trucks from idling for more than five minutes under normal circumstances.

DEVELOPING: DOJ SENDS VOTING RIGHTS MONITORS, OBSERVERS TO 23 STATES... The Justice Department on Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems that would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

The resolution is in response to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

Over the summer, the Department of Motor Vehicles worked with state and local law enforcement to make more than 130 arrests and confiscate more than 60 fake IDs at concerts throughout the state of New York as a part of Operation Prevent, a year - round DMV initiative focused on preventing underage drinking, according to the release.

There's also a little more than $ 3 million to reduce Law Department «frivolous» lawsuits.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

Rather than going into a lengthy catalog of Article 2 powers and the attendant case law that shows an historical accretion of power in the Presidency, along with perhaps the growth of the Executive Department and administrative state (those are easily catalogued, but my college text on the matter ran over 2000 pages), I will turn to the resource modern scholars use, Richard Neustadt's, summarized as

The issue started with the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

The package includes laws that would protect the State's wetlands by giving the Department of Environmental Conservation authority over wetlands greater than one acre and requiring violators to repair damaged areas near wetlands.

The idea is one of the 79 recommended in the Medicaid Redesign Team's report, but the Indy conference is calling on the State Insurance Department to implement the new law so costs savings can be realized sooner rather than later.

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State law also requires the department to put uncashed payments that are more than a year old into a trust fund for crime victims who have been waiting for restitution in other cases.

If the 1961 law were found to be invalid, the development might fall into a category called a major concession — defined by the Department of City Planning as any privately run enterprise bigger than 15,000 square feet sited on public land — and thus subject to another public review process.

Bratton — who ran his own law enforcement consulting firm, the Bratton Group, before taking over the NYPD's top job last January — raked in more than $ 53,000 while working with Wasserman on a contract with the Baltimore Police Department in 2013.

Emails released by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) watchdog under freedom of information laws showed that the Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher - than - normal death rates.

The living - wage measure, which was passed into law over Michael Bloomberg's veto in 2012, would have covered more than 12,000 jobs had Bloomberg not sued to stop it, according to a study released last July by the union that pushed the bill, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

Under state law, any former state or local government worker under age 65 who receives a state pension must obtain a «211 waiver» from the state Civil Service Department to return to public payroll unless they earn less than $ 30,000 a year.

HOUSE DIVIDED: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL, 9/8: «The New York City Police Department's indefensible program of spying on law - abiding Muslims in their neighborhoods and houses of worship has turned out to be even more aggressive than earlier reports had shown.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed President Barack Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development today for alleging New York mishandled $ 22.4 million in hurricane relief funds from Washington — insisting that his administration understands federal law better than Obama's.

But incorporating the directive into British law rests with the Treasury, not the OST, and other departments point out that the Treasury has traditionally been more concerned with cutting costs than nurturing Britain's technological infrastructure.

The meta - analysis, published online Jan. 20, 2013, in Annals of Internal Medicine, pools results from 15 investigations, slightly more than half of which were done after a 1996 federal law prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from funding research that could be seen as promoting gun control.

Since then, Zayas has starred in more than 30 plays, including JESUS HOPPED THE «A» TRAIN, IN ARABIA WE»D ALL BE KINGS, and OUR LADY OF 121st ST.. While performing in New York plays, he began to book roles on hit TV shows such as NEW YORK UNDERCOVER, LAW & ORDER, and NYPD BLUE, all while working for the New York Police Department.

No better or worse than his subsequent law»n' order flick, 1975's Brannigan (the one in which he jets off to London to nab a bad guy), this finds the actor cast as a veteran detective who investigates the murder of his partner and discovers that the rotten apples might be located in his own department.

The U.S. Department of Education last week sent out the first installment — more than $ 250 million — in education aid to states affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, just days after President Bush signed the measure into law.

One study reported, «The NCLB law does not specify any additional actions for schools that remain in the implementation phase of restructuring for more than one year, and [the Department] has offered little guidance on what to do about persistently struggling schools.»

A recent Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

The department should remember that while many states permit linking teachers to student test scores, few districts actually do so, and that while Virginia and Mississippi have each had a charter law for more than a decade, combined they have only five charter schools.

In fact, a Center on Education Policy at George Washington University survey of state department of education officials found that respondents in 23 states said their agency «had a heavier workload under ESSA than under NCLB,» which challenges the notion that ESSA has fewer federal regulations than previous iterations of the federal K — 12 law.

In a report released Nov. 28, the office recommends that the department devise a strategy for evaluating a district's tutoring program, rather than making a «blanket determination» that the district can not provide such supplemental educational services because it has been deemed «in need of improvement» under the NCLB law.

The new law is more expansive than NCLB, providing for broader curriculum and early childhood education, for example, though the Preschool Development Grants program would reside not in the Education Department but in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Tisch, who said she didn't bring up her idea publicly before because she didn't want to «muck up» the negotiations, believes the state Education Department can implement her plan on its own rather than needing a law.

Washington — Although more than three months have passed since Education Department officials announced their intention to seek major changes in the federal law governing the education of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amend the law.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

More than likely, these residents — many of whom are first - generation middle class residents, entrepreneurs, and blue - collar workers — would use a Patent Trigger law to remove control of P.S. 45 from the New York City Department of Education, and lead an overhaul so that all families and their kids have a wider array of choices.

Since awarding more than 40 NCLB waivers, this marks the first time the department has ever labeled states» escape from some onerous components of the law as being in trouble.

Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

But just last week, the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) released a damning report showing that more than 60,000 special needs kids in city schools are not receiving all of the services they need and are entitled to under law.