Sentences with phrase «when practicing law»

These skills include how to use basic technologies (Word, Excel, PDF) effectively when practicing law, how to draft contracts effectively and negotiate common deal points, and how to handle ethical issues.

You carefully and meticulously prepare matters when practicing law.

When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common sense and intuition rather than a moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors in judgment.

But when you practice law, send out invoices, create marketing material, and otherwise run your law firm, you are acting as an employee for your law firm, not as an alter - ego of the business entity.

When I practiced law, I was constantly exposed to new industries and different management styles.

Not exact matches

When Linda Rottenberg graduated from Yale Law School in 1993, she knew one thing: She didn't want to practice lLaw School in 1993, she knew one thing: She didn't want to practice lawlaw.

The new EEOC guidelines are intended to bring to bear the weight of anti-discrimination law to prevent such practices, even when the actions are based on benevolent reasons, such as assuming that a working mother wouldn't want to move to another city, even if it would mean a promotion.

It's different when you are out here in the working world trying to run your own law practice and pay frankly exorbitant taxes and deciding what you are going to do with your extra free work.

The plunge of those notes began in earnest on September 6, when it became known that the company had hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis, whose bankruptcy - and - restructuring practice is considered a leader in the industry.

As I remember it (and I don't practice a lot of corporate law so I'm going on memory here), companies can't, for example, authorize dividends when it would starve them of cash to pay their debts.

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.

My lawyers dream came true when I got an offer at Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz, the dream of being part of the firm built by one of the true visionaries and shapers of the corporate world, and learning and practicing at one of the greatest corporate law firms in the world.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

I learned this in my first few months of law practice in 1964 when, as low person on the totem pole, I had to handle routine motions in both state and federal courts.

When you add that up, it begins to look a little institutional (Webster defines as: «a custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by many people» So my physical family is an institution and we have customs and practices and traditions over many years.

Goff practiced law for 30 years, but when he visited Uganda 16 years ago, he realized what he was meant to do.

Furthermore, in light of the bible's recognition of the morality of owning foreign born slaves as personal property (Lev 25:44 - 46), it seems a little odd that the alleged divine law giver failed to condemn this practice when even mere mortals would eventually come to recognize the practice as morally repugnant.

When the practicing Christian talks to modern man about the «Law of God,» the «Teaching of the Church,» or invokes the authority of Holy Scripture, he is to his own mind bringing out the heaviest weapons in his armory.

When Joseph decided to apply the law in this way, it was a fragile act of interpretation and one that would not be easy to carry out in practice, since «secrets will out.»

We can attempt to articulate this tacit understanding by suggesting that both camps are working with the inchoate idea that tyranny is present when a law or a governmental policy or a social practice in some way harms human beings by adversely affecting the developing course of their life.

All laws are eventually broken, so what happens when someone decides to practice a religion notwithstanding your ban?

«Avenging Angels» — Brigham Youngs murderers — they did his bidding like the Mason Family Mountain Meadows Massacre — the massacre of 30 men 40 women and 70 children in Utah by the «Avenging Angels» see «Blood of the Prophets» by Will Bagley (mormon author) Blood Atonement — the practice of the mormons that atones for the death of its members and / or the act of which the mormons retaliate when they do not believe one is following what they think is right — google the 1984 murder the Lafferty brothers commited in Utah of their sister in - law and her 9 month old daughter by slitting their throats.

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And, in the Army and when I was admitted to law practice, I must have sworn to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution — knowing that one of our founding documents talked about our being «endowed by our Creator» with certain rights.

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

Conflict can occur both within a congregation and in relation to secular laws governing mandated reporting when the clergyperson's practice of confidentiality is significantly different from members» expectations.

When I was practicing law full time from the mid 1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous on emphasis suicide prevention.

And when it comes to immunizing such «choices» from legal restriction or even private remonstration, the Court's liberals can be counted upon to flip on the switch of what Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in dissent, describes as «the ad hoc nullification machine that [is] set in motion to push aside whatever doctrines of constitutional law stand in the way of the highly favored practice of abortion.»

The football follies in Atlanta came to an abrupt end on Feb. 1, 1977, when Smith turned over control of the front office to Eddie LeBaron, the 5» 5» former quarterback of the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, who was practicing law in Las Vegas at the time.

The current legal challenges have already stopped UEFA from implementing the $ 30 loss rule and when the challenge moves to European restrictive practice areas of EU law, the whole thing will collapse and UEFA will face massive compensation claim from all clubs who were restricted by the unlawful practice.

When parents have the motivation to find out the science behind laws and regulations, they can quickly become as qualified as the experts to lobby for safer practices, she says.

The law requires that when an athlete has suffered an apparent brain injury — whether in a game or practice — he or she can not return to play without the approval of a licensed medical professional, which includes certified athletic trainers.

As for Diaz - Tello, who has graduated from law school since the birth of her child, she's now working in her own legal practice and with groups like the National Advocates for Pregnant Women to educate moms about what they're going into when they enter the delivery room.

The International Formula Council (IFC) «confuses» US law and the WHO Code when defending the practice of supplying free infant formula samples for hospital discharge bags, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF claim.

Nestlé only stops harmful marketing practices when forced to by law or through pressure from boycott supporters.

Last week, McDonald's made national headlines when it announced it had allegedly found a work - around to a San Francisco law designed to curb the predatory practice of using toys to lure kids into a lifetime of fast food.

To commit citizens of Ghana to jail on account of what they have said at a time when democratic societies are moving away from such a practice would appear to roll back all the gains made since the repeal of the criminal libel law.

the reason for the court's blocking of a travel restriction put in place by the President of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what they preach

Thus, even British practice suggests that international law does not permit withdrawing the diplomatic status of a building where abusive acts are going on when it is also actually being used for the diplomatic purposes.

Mr. Flanagan and his counsel, David Lewis, have strenuously argued that the practice is supported by state law and precedent, noting that it began in March 2015, when Mr. Skelos asked that two vice chairmen receive lulus diverted from their actual committee chairman.

When he took over the top post last year as Senate majority leader, John Flanagan announced he was leaving his private - practice law firm.

In the practice of certain states acceptance and approval have been used instead of ratification when, at a national level, constitutional law does not require the treaty to be ratified by the head of state.

The bulk of his testimony focused on events in 2010 when Rivkin Radler LLP, the Uniondale law firm where Mangano once practiced, drew up the legal documents to help Oyster Bay guarantee a $ 1.5 million line of credit for Singh.

The law states: «When the county executive delivers his annual report to the county legislature he should do so at a regular meeting... in accordance with long - standing practice and common sense.»

The poisoned atmosphere is when a person can get a third class degree at Legon, get thrown out at Oxford, never attends a law school but is given a law license to practice in Ghana and wants to be president by every means possible.

When asked if he decided not to run because he would have to disclose potentially damaging client information from his private law practice, Winner shrugged it off and called that allegation partisan nonsense.

«It's common practice to extend laws to allow more time to fully gauge and measure their effectiveness, especially when that law is intended to protect good - paying, middle - class jobs that are at the heart of New York City's tourism economy,» Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, one of the bill's sponsors, said in a statement.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

Mirroring state law to existing federal protections does not change practice — New York will continue to follow Roe v. Wade just as we have done since 1973 — when the federal ruling took precedence over our state law written in 1970.»