Sentences with phrase «what corporate practice»

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«What you want to avoid is anything that might «pierce the corporate veil,» says Sandra E. Mayerson, leader of the national bankruptcy practice of law firm Holland & Knight LLP, who is based in New York City.

«This is what we call an «emotional tax,»» says Dnika J. Travis, an executive and researcher at the Catalyst Research Center for Corporate Practice.

I mean the basic framework and assumptions we use to talk about the practice and profession of management, our underlying beliefs about what corporate leaders and managers are trying to achieve, and how they go about achieving it.

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What annoys me about this behavior, which is practiced very often today as well, is that for some reason corporate managers seem to act like these buybacks — when they are earmarked for the purpose of offsetting stock options — exist in a vacuum where the laws of economics are suspended.

The questions that people most wanted to talk about were those concerning growth as a Christian, life goals, the mix of personal and corporate spiritual practices, how to understand God's will in today's world, how to make use of the Bible, and what it means to bear fruit for the Lord.

Think about what life at work would be like if we practiced this commandment and made it the first item in our corporate policy manuals.

Moving forward, what steps do you plan to take to use social media and engagement with bloggers to get input into corporate policies and practices?

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

She teaches natural nutrition in both corporate and educational environments and is a shining example of someone who practices what she teaches.

You can impress any stakeholder with a stunning zoom - in feature of the corporate logo synced with music for an intro or some cool animation with conditional action - variable features, but if your learners don't get what you're really trying to teach them and be able to put it into practice in their job, you've kinda sunk the battleship.

So, what are best practices for integrating interactive video in corporate eLearning?

Even those who may seem more reluctant to participate still have an inherent desire to be better at what they do or, at the very least, improve their work practices in order to climb the corporate ladder.

And the Guild and the Society are going about exposing details of what they characterize as unfair and inadequate payment practices that they say damage authors» ability to make a living and take advantage of authors» comparatively weak stance in the face of a corporate publishing infrastructure.

And third, although I don't know what was in the minds of legislators when the 401 (k) law was enacted, in practice it is very explicitly thought of as a substitute for a pension plan and as far as I know this has always been the case in the corporate world.

What annoys me about this behavior, which is practiced very often today as well, is that for some reason corporate managers seem to act like these buybacks — when they are earmarked for the purpose of offsetting stock options — exist in a vacuum where the laws of economics are suspended.

This practice has a bit of irony attached to it, because the corporate managers who fought tooth and nail to prevent these options from being called what they were (an expense) began paying for these options by draining the company's cash to hide the true impact and cost that the options were creating in the first place.

After all, at this point, the company, who promised free creative reign to Lew and Locks for the project, and is sponsoring not only this year's, but the next few biennials through 2021, should know what it signed up for — or at least the intentions of the biennial's youngest - ever curators, who were looking not to create extra work for the artists for the sake of a watered - down corporate sponsorship, but to instead give them a chance to expand their biennial contributions and typical artistic practice, «as if their studio has expanded exponentially to the collaboration.»

I think what's happening is that people are looking at it, and are beginning to understand and kind of pick up where I think the environmental movement failed — the a sustainability movement is, I think, a much more healthy model, and it includes both government and corporate practice, as well as what the environmentalists and certain citizens.

Having come from a corporate background in private practice, the interesting aspect, from an in - house perspective, with these transactions is what we call the PMI (Post Merger Integration) process.

The Hottest Corporate Practice Areas — Four in - house paralegals describe what it's like to work in the most sizzling fields.

On the first of these, IM promises to use what it has learned from its claimant practice and put it into effect on the corporate side.

What the team is known for High - caliber practice group with an excellent track record in high - stakes and high - value corporate disputes, drawing from a strong team of appellate attorneys with extensive experience in the Supreme Court and wider federal courts of appeal.

By picking apart which matters cost the most, or what practice groups spend the least, a corporate legal department can determine how best to allocate their upcoming budget forecast.

When corporate counsel were asked what types of law firm - generated content they found most valuable, 77 percent said client alerts and 76 percent said practice group newsletters, while only 35 percent answered blogs.

I'm less familiar with corporate clients, having devoted what thought I gave to these things to a practice for individual clients, but I think that in either case (and certainly in the latter) it'd be easy to set up «exit interviews» where you or your clerk asked «How'd we do?»

For a number of years, Kelly gained invaluable experience aggressively representing corporate clients in what could only be called «high - stakes» litigation, practicing alongside some of the best firms and attorneys in the State of Texas, if not the nation; however, Kelly is a full - time father before he is a lawyer.

We have a large litigation group that counts for about another third of the firm, and we have a commercial / securities / tax / M&A practice, what we call corporate financing.

«If you're wanting to grow your corporate law practice, maybe it's the snagging of three to five major accounts, something that will let you know you're getting a little bit closer to what the plan had set out for you.»

When corporate counsel were asked what types of law firm - generated content they found most valuable, 77 percent said client alerts and 76 percent said practice group newsletters, while only 35 percent -LSB-...]

And it seems it doesn't matter what area of law you practice — civil litigation, corporate - commercial, real estate, family, criminal, immigration law, etc. — there's always a bad egg out there somewhere.

In this video, senior in - house lawyers at the recent Corporate Counsel Forum discuss how the role of general counsel is evolving, tackling questions on subjects including leadership, learning and what private practice advisers could do differently.

A 10 or 15 lawyer retail firm covering a handful of personal service practice areas reconstituting as part of a 300 + lawyer national firm would have meant throwing out the old owner's manual and starting from scratch, moving from what was essentially a small - business management system to a much more corporate model.

While management and clients are demanding the use of LPM today, many corporate legal departments and law firms don't know what LPM really is, let alone how to do such things as hire legal project managers, train them, integrate them into their company or assimilate LPM into the legal practice areas and departments where LPM is required.

Posts share insights from quantitative legal research on corporate law, capital markets, finance, and mergers & acquisitions as well as the debate about what law schools need to do to produce «practice - ready» graduates and «practice - ready» scholarship.

I still had my corporate entity alive, and so basically what I did was I dusted off that solo practice, and I got an opportunity to essentially start over again, but with the, let's say at that point, nine years of understanding of practicing.

Last week, while pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy, former White Buck Coal Co. president David Hughart implicated Blankenship «in what appears to be a widespread corporate practice of warning coal miners about surprise inspections.»

The main purpose of an overview is to convey a realistic picture of what's going on in the practice, but marketers sometimes find writing for directories hard, as it requires an adjustment in approach from more polished corporate text.

Please join Pratik Patel for an educational session on this rapidly emerging practice and what works, and what doesn't when making LPM successful for your corporate law department or law firm.

What this means in practice is that third parties with whom the corporate needs to share the fact of the negotiations or any information relating to the DPA negotiations must sign a confidentiality undertaking.

, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Practical Law Company «What is the single most innovative practice proposed or used by your outside counsel in the last twelve months?»

Forty five Chief Legal Officers located in Europe were asked by Altman Weil, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Practical Law Company «What is the single most innovative practice proposed or used by your outside counsel in the last twelve months?»

The firm in our example might say, of course we know what we do — we practice real estate, corporate / commercial law, litigation, and employment law.

What you'll do: Our award winning training (we won LawCareers.Net Best Trainer - Large City Firm 2017) combines our in - house Professional Skills Course with six - month seats in four different practice groups, including one contentious seat and one in our corporate or finance areas.

Their projects may not be as news - worthy as a Fortune 10 announcing a change - up of its outside counsel lineup or the decision to automate or offshore a formerly lawyer - intensive process, but most of what small - to mid-size departments are doing — even if not sexy — is focusing on sound improvements to their business and operational management practices (which I'd suggest will have a longer term impact on improving the health and value of the corporate legal profession than any single behemoth company's decision to re-order or discount the cost of work for its portfolio of AmLaw 25 firms.

So what does this mean for CLOC and its members, who are the vanguards for encouraging their clients to push for greater efficiency, deploy better business practices and service models, and pursue relationships with ALSPs that drive better results for the corporate client for certain portfolios of work or department functions?

However, what I can say is that legal and corporate affairs have been given a dedicated integration scheme, which demonstrates how highly the global business views the practice.

What was once referred to as «general practice» work is more often the purview of large corporate entities that employ both lawyers and non-lawyers.

These surveys capture current thinking of Chief Legal Officers and give lawyers in private practice a good indication of what corporate clients are think about and want from firms that do work for them.

Litigation partner Mark Mendelsohn will participate in a roundtable discussion, «The New Corporate Enforcement Policy in Practice: What Changes, What Stays the Same in Your Disclosure Calculus and Investigation Management» at the...