Sentences with phrase «working against the firm»

If «industry standard» practices don't produce results but might actually be working against a firm's objective of increasing representation of racial minorities, what should be done?

Not exact matches

While some Canadians have criticized Trudeau for not taking a firmer stance against Trump's politics, he said he prefers to maintain «a constructive working relationship» between Canada and the US.

Current proxy rules work against shareowners who are trying to vote in alternative and independent board members, but it is shortsighted of firms to ignore owners» interests.

So taking angel money from a traditional venture investor is a bet on that firm funding your Series A. Unfortunately, if that doesn't work out, you're back is up against the wall.

The portion of the program that likely galvanized the White House was the startling report by prosecutors that had worked under Breuer in the criminal division of the DOJ that there wasn't even a pretense of a real investigation against the major Wall Street firms: no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.

The third charge against Flynn says he misrepresented the extent of his work on behalf of the Turkish government through his firm, the Flynn Intel Group.

We shall gather further steam to launch forward, firm in our faith that working in this is doing God's will, that indeed we are standing together with God against death and suffering.

By contrast, if we allow them to explore movement on the floor, they will develop a firm foundation of how their body works in parts related to each other and as a whole against gravity.

CCTV footage exists to enable firm action to be taken against the hoodlums who desecrated the seat of government with that vicious attack on the hard - working police officer.

In coming days, prosecutors are expected to call witnesses tied to additional charges against Silver: That he profited from legal work sent to a second law firm in Manhattan by mega-landlord Glenwood Management and another real estate developer in return for the politician's alleged backing of real estate legislation.

While the earlier lawsuits concerned Terry's personal dealings, Sidney B. Bowne & Son LLP, a Mineola engineering firm that has had public contracts with North Hempstead Town and Nassau County, filed a lawsuit against Terry, who worked for the firm as a lobbyist, and others in 2007.

The firm discontinued working on cases against New York State to avoid «any conflict of interest» with Silver as of counsel.

A Forest Hills resident who works for Manhattan firm Davidoff, Malito & Hutcher LLP, Sean Crowley filed a lawsuit in Queens Surrogate Court against Rose McGushin, 49, seeking $ 10,000 for work he performed on McGushin's mother's will more than a decade ago, City Hall News reported.

In court papers filed Tuesday, a lawyer for Louis Ciminelli claimed the firm has lost $ 3.88 billion worth of «work and inventory» in the past 18 months, citing the bad publicity surrounding the federal probe and bribery indictments against Ciminelli, Kevin Schuler and Michael Laipple.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — Amid debate, the Rockland County Legislature's Planning & Public Works and Budget & Finance committees approved an extension of their agreement with the law firm of Harris Beach, PLLC to continue litigation stemming from a particularly difficult lawsuit filed against the county by West Gate Landscaping, Inc..

The Milwaukee Common Council's Judiciary and Legislative Committee voted unanimously Monday to settle a lawsuit against three engineering and design firms that worked on the City Hall facade.

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

Ro Khanna, who is working on a rematch against incumbent California Democratic Rep. Mike Honda raked in $ 480,500 from investment firms compared to $ 170,752 from the electronics manufacturing sector, his next top donor group.

The feds also intend to repeat their entire case at a new trial against Espada's son, Pedro Gautier Espada, who is charged with a total of eight counts of theft, embezzlement, conspiracy and other charges connected to his work at Soundview and the operation of related firms that provided contractual janitorial services to the health care chain, a source confirmed.

The feds also accuse Dean Skelos of misrepresenting the kind of work he did for his law firm, and say they plan to use that against him at trial if he testifies in his own defense or tries to call character witnesses.

«They're now looking at how to create mixed - use developments that would include self - storage and manufacturing space,» said Michael Woloz, a lobbyist with the firm Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz who is working on behalf of a Bronx - based self - storage company to push back against the proposal.

Rockland County Sen. David Carlucci, a Democrat who was mentioned in the federal complaint against Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, paid $ 17,700 to the law firm of Gibson, Dunn, Crutcher, which does white collar criminal defense work.

The county restarted foreclosure actions against suburban properties in 2012 by hiring an outside law firm to do that work.

Following allegations made by Mr. Cohen against the outside auditing firm Nawrocki Smith, which was working with the state comptroller as well as several town officials in untangling the town's finances, Mr. Bernard wrote Ira McCracken, a chief examiner for the office of the State Comptroller, in May, asking if someone from his office had ever sent a letter to Zachary Cohen saying that Mr. Cohen was correct in one of his criticisms of Nawrocki Smith.

New City — Amid debate, the Rockland County Legislature's Planning & Public Works and Budget & Finance committees approved an extension of their agreement with the law firm of Harris Beach, PLLC to continue litigation stemming from a particularly difficult lawsuit filed against the county by West Gate Landscaping, Inc..

But Jöris and some other archaeologists caution against drawing too many firm conclusions from the work.

Junk food diets to gain weight and mass may work, but they can also cause a host of other health problems and can actually work against your efforts to get toned and firm while bulking up.

We are firm believers that natural skincare is mostly about using products that work WITH your body and not against it.

Perhaps one of the reasons that the mass public has continued to fail to embrace the film is that he works against the grain at every opportunity, playing a borderline villain, not unlike Captain Ahab in «Moby Dick», willing to push his entire family to the brink of his own madness in order to come to a destiny that he keeps changing a firm position on.

On her way into Manhattan for work where her job is doing data entry in a cubicle, Doris gets pressed up against in the elevator and noticed by handsome thirtysomething John Fremont (Max Greenfield), the fashion firm's new art director.

Anthony Merchant of Merchant Law in Saskatchewan, whose firm is working on a class action suit against Loblaw, recommends that those who've applied for a gift card and get the letter, should only send in a utility bill — never a driver's license «which is close to gold» for fraudsters.

Lawyer Anthony Merchant of Merchant Law, whose firm is also working on a class action suit against Loblaw, recommends that Canadians register for both the gift card and class action lawsuit.

Prior to joining Francis & Mailman, Joseph worked with a New Jersey law firm helping to expand their consumer protection practice, and successfully litigated cases against numerous large financial institutions.

Regionally, however, Interactive Brokers continued to get frozen out of the brokerage rankings throughout the year so despite being a firm that now caters to less active investors and those seeking registered accounts, their «trader» reputation seems to be working against them.

By retaining a reputable MN Bankruptcy Law Firm to represent you through the bankruptcy process you send a clear message to creditors and the collection agencies working on their behalf that you are committed to filing bankruptcy and partnered with a professional which will assure they do not take any action against you which is not clearly permitted by law.

They do not bar him from continuing work on the project, and in fact they only apply to the specific file that Nintendo's law firm filled out the DMCA claim against, which is the 1.0 version.

Jeffrey Holmstead, a Bush administration EPA official who now works for the Bracewell law firm, said he thought critics might be over-interpreting the Perry memo as a slam against renewables.

A host of firms including Linklaters, Allen & Overy, and Baker & McKenzie have filed a collective objection against Dewey & LeBoeuf's estate over its attempt to win compensation for client work originated at the defunct firm.

Trump filed a legal malpractice suit against New York's Morrison Cohen last year in Westchester County Supreme Court, claiming the firm treated him like a «cash cow» and performed unnecessary work to generate higher bills.

The Heins law firm received a $ 103 million fee for its work as lead counsel in a nationwide class action suit against AOL Time Warner over false and misleading financial statements by AOL.

A Master of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta has ruled in favour of one law firm but against another in a real estate leasing company's lawsuits against both firms, in a «legal odyssey» he compared to the great classical work by Homer.

A USA Today story published Wednesday reports that Biden worked to defeat a bipartisan bill designed to curb asbestos lawsuits at a time his older son Beau's law firm was filing asbestos cases and a former aide was lobbying against the measure.

One survey participant comments: «There is still a lot of discrimination at City law firms against women, especially women who have children before making partnership, even when they work full time and put in the same hours as male colleagues.

Tanya then worked for a large Chicago insurance defense firm as a hired gun to defend Fortune 100 and 500 companies against personal injury claims.

For most of the 30 years since the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, advising companies on compliance and, on rare occasions, defending them against prosecution, has been a niche business in most corporate law firms, part - time work for a partner or two.

Engineering and construction firm in obtaining an injunction against its former COO who was planning to work for a competitor

In other work, the team represented a software company in a dispute over the possible ineffectiveness of a brand acquisition, and Uwe Hornung defended the law firm Gleiss Lutz against damage claims brought by Stefan Mappus, former minister president of the state of Baden - Württemberg, before the Regional Court of Stuttgart and the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart with regards to the alleged violation of third - party protection obligations.

Certain new models work a cost arbitrage advantage against traditional firms for certain types of work, but they themselves will likely only be a temporary solution, to be replaced themselves by better models unless they also evolve.

And now for $ 25 a month, again, you have the same platform that the biggest law firms that you are either competing against or working with or using at really an incredibly reasonable cost.

The group's recent work includes acting for an individual in a claim against a solicitor who had misappropriated a portion of the client's damages following a previous clinical negligence claim, handling a claim relating to negligent conveyancing, and representing an individual against a firm of solicitors that failed to prepare a will in reasonable time.