Sentences with phrase «write a memorandum of»

Any decent law firm can research and write a memorandum of law addressing an issue on the client's mind today; where we provide real value is in identifying tomorrow's issue, one the client has not yet considered, and in counseling the client on how to handle it.

Not exact matches

The governors of Oregon, Colorado, Washington and Alaska — where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal — wrote to Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in April, warning altering the memorandum «would divert existing marijuana product into the black market and increase dangerous activity in both our states and our neighboring states.»

The editorial board for The Architect's Newspaper, writing in high dudgeon, posted a response condemning the AIA's «conciliatory note» and the «tone, character, and appropriateness of Ivy's memorandum.»

The spirit in which he went about that work, the results of which have put the world eternally in his debt, is fairly indicated by a memorandum written in his early forties and never intended for publicity: «Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property, which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might best be served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.»

As part of the resolution's «explanatory memorandum,» written by Guy Lengagne and amended by its rapporteur, Anne Brasseur, there is a section entitled «Positions adopted by the religious authorities.»

«My memorandum of 13 April 2011 is hereby suspended until further notice pending additional legal and policy review and inter-Departmental coordination,» Tidd wrote on Tuesday to all Navy chaplains and «religious program specialists.»

This blog post was written by Dr. Rosemary Foot, a member of the EU - North America Working Group at the Dahrendorf Forum, using content from the memorandum produced for the Dahrendorf All Working Group Meeting in Berlin in December, 2015.

Meanwhile, de Blasio this week openly questioned how a Board of Elections memorandum written by an independent enforcement counsel hand - picked by Gov. Andrew Cuomo leaked to the press.

On 9th April 1999 I wrote a memorandum to the Attorney - General, Dr. Obed Asamoah, on Delta Foods Ltd after the Solicitor - General, Mr. E. A. Addo, had submitted a memorandum through me to the Attorney - General on how the mess in Delta Foods Ltd was created and a consent judgment entered in the High Court without the knowledge and involvement of the Attorney - General.

The Joint Committee chaired by both Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji of Committee on National Security and Intelligence and Hon. Oluwole Oke of the Committee on Public Procurement had recently called for submission of written memoranda / position papers from top government officials and 241 firms.

«Beyond the legal and regulatory issues implicated by your office's memorandum being improperly leaked to the press, your memorandum reflects either a shocking lack of understanding or a complete disregard of the most fundamental aspects of the state's election laws,» lawyer Laurence Laufer, who represents several other parties named in the memo, wrote.

A state inspector general report released Tuesday determine the leaked memorandum written by Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman was given to The Daily News by Board of Elections spokesman John Conklin, a Republican appointee.

In a memorandum sent to the state Board of Elections today, federal officials write that the state has failed to prove that moving the primary date to as late as August does not present «an undue hardship» in light of next year's round of redistricting.

Chair of the committee, Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, has now written to the chief executive of NHS Digital asking for them to withdraw from the memorandum of understanding and to stop sharing data with the Home Office while a full review is carried out.

«If DFS's factual findings are correct, Bonomo violated the express provisions of his non-prosecution agreement with the government by concealing his past crimes against PRI and, in all likelihood, continuing to commit serious crimes even after he signed that agreement,» the Skeloses» attorneys wrote in their memorandum.

Upon the Postdoctoral Scholar's written request, counseling memoranda and / or written records of discussions will be removed from the Postdoctoral Scholar's personnel file if there have been no other such memoranda relating to, or disciplinary action on, the same or similar issue (s) for a two - year period.

Ms. Chavez left her position with the group, which wants to make English the official language of the United States, after a memorandum written by its chairman, John Tanton, was made public.

«The school unions will not like creation of a significant number of new schools that operate outside the union agreement,» Mr. Martin wrote in his memorandum to Mr. Duncan.

The memorandum of understanding between the Catholic church and the government is little more than a written definition about their working relationship, says Paul Barber Much has been...

«Based upon records reviewed, it appears QEA is operating a basketball recruiting and training service as adjunct to its basic academic mission,» wrote Jackie Jenkins, a consultant for DPI's Office of Charter Schools in a Feb. 2011 memorandum.

This activity involves creating memoranda to notify employees of the incoming events, writing deductive reports for the research carried out or creating a proposal before conducting fieldwork research, inscribing letters to colleagues when congratulating them or informal letters that exhibit approval or any sort of letters in an institution.

«As set forth in the memorandum of understanding, any payment to be made by Apple under the settlement agreement will be contingent on the outcome of that appeal,» Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, the plaintiffs» lead lawyer, wrote in a letter to the judge.

Types of business correspondence writing include memos, letters, and memorandum.

Joe Walker, a public relations representative of the API, had written an eight - page internal memorandum outlining the plan, which unfortunately for the plotters was leaked by a whistle - blower.

Copyright can be transferred «in whole or in part by any means of conveyance», but «is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent».

That being so, the logic underlying the authorities I have referred to would appear to be that where (as in this case) there is an offer in writing made by the party to be bound which contains the essential terms of what is offered and the party to be bound accepts that his offer has been accepted unconditionally, albeit orally, there is a sufficient note or memorandum to satisfy s4.

The working group will need to consider whether such settlements should be recorded as memoranda of understanding, written agreements or consent orders, and who should be responsible for preparing the record, particularly when one or more litigants are self - represented.

In a memorandum to district court judges, Judge Julie Robinson, the committee chair, wrote that the model instructions were developed to address the increasing incidence of jurors using such technology to conduct research on the Internet or communicate with others about cases, which has «resulted in mistrials, exclusion of jurors, and imposition of fines.»

An extremely bright SCC clerk will write as good a memorandum on a point of law as an expert if given enough time.

And each researcher would create a database of frequently used passages, paragraphs, and footnotes, for his / her specialty, so that the creation of legal opinions and updating standard memoranda could be facilitated by copy - pasting such frequently needed blocks of writing.

Students confront the memoranda at the very beginning of the semester, before students have read the portions of their textbooks that would acquaint them with the analytical and writing doctrine that guides legal writers in preparing such documents.

Note that an «informal writing» (e.g., a memorandum on the back of napkin that includes all the necessary elements including the signatures of both parties) can satisfy the statute of frauds in the UCC so long is it represents the intent to be bound by the contract.

So, for example, even if a superior repeatedly points out to the person that he should ditch the here - and - there words and other forms of legalese (as The Lawyerist's Andy Mergendahl has advised here), or that nominalizations and buried verbs should be reworked into active voice, or that Enclosed please find (PDF) is silly and should be stricken from all correspondence, a month or two later the superior will see these legal - writing foibles in a letter, memorandum, or, worse, a brief filed with a court.

Notably, she covers not just the workaday wordsmithery of briefs and memoranda, but also gives guidance for writing letters, emails and blogs.

A judge might ask a clerk to write a memorandum or even a first draft of a judicial opinion.

Next, Amanda Smith argues for the addition of an opinion - writing exercise as a complement to the traditional office memorandum in first - semester legal writing courses.

The lawyer should have sent his client a short written memorandum setting out the advice concerning the proper use of the corporate name; his failure to do so, in this case, fell below the appropriate standard of care.

If writing memoranda authorizing torture — actions which then directly lead to the systematic commission of torture — doesn't make one a war criminal in the U.S., what does?

The lawyers generate a pre-trial memorandum, a written report for a pre-trial hearing, costing thousands or tens of thousands of dollars

Unfortunately there was no written evidence of the unnamed individual's contributions to the design memoranda.

I wrote a lot of memoranda.

In an article in the current New York Review of Books, «The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers,» Georgetown law professor David Cole examines the role and culpability of the lawyers of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, who, under the Bush administration, wrote memoranda approving of and authorizing torture by the CIA.

«There's a lot of research and writing memoranda to explain the legal implications of the issue at hand, a lot of doc review and condensing the findings from that into a usable work product.

Connie's passion for legal research and legal writing has produced innovative and effective legal memorandums and factums, that have been submitted to all levels of Courts, in the areas of unreasonable search and seizure, arbitrary detention, the right to a fair trial, the right to counsel, unreasonable delay, and drinking and driving offences.

It's a lot of ground to cover for a staff of 35 lawyers, especially considering they don't just do the research but write memoranda, appellate briefs, motions, pleadings and multi-state surveys.

Susan is a graduate of Seton Hall Law School and served as Moot Court Member and Advisor, preparing the written memoranda for student competitions.

While early legal writing classes may focus on the tenets of legal analysis, students may have questions about the form of a legal memorandum, and writing tutors are an appropriate authority on such concepts.

Many of the students were in their first year and were just a week out of completing their first legal research project of their own, their mandatory legal research and writing memorandum.

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