Sentences with phrase «years of litigation last»

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The Insurance Commission of Western Australia increased spending on the Bell Group litigation to $ 9.6 million last financial year, while also revealing in its annual report it has applied to the Supreme Court for a single trial to cover all related matters.

Commercial litigation has been spread thin, as it was last year, with a few names standing out such as Tony Siopis SC from Francis Burt Chambers, Steven Penglis of Freehills, Paul Fitzpatrick of Clayton Utz, and Kirsty Sutherland of Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

The news outlet is embroiled in its own litigation with Cohen, who is suing BuzzFeed for libel over its publication of the Steele dossier, a collection of allegations about Trump's dealings with Russia, last year.

Spawned by years of litigation and turf battles, a dispute over who owns Crystal Lake ended quietly last month in a state appellate courtroom.

Town of North Hempstead officials last week authorized a third round of litigation to seek an injunction should Nassau County withhold the town's sales tax revenue to offset FIT reimbursement costs of $ 1.3 million for the 2004 - 2005 school year.

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome says the Supreme Court was misled to declare as unconstitutional, the controversial GHC51 million paid to him as judgement debt, which has become a subject of litigation in the last five years.

Town of North Hempstead officials last week authorized a third round of litigation to seek an injunction should Nassau County withhold the town's sales tax revenue to offset Fashion Institute of Technology reimbursement costs of $ 1.3 million for the 2004 - 2005 school year.

In Hoosick Falls, where several banks suspended property financing and declined to issue mortgages last year, the litigation represents a potential recovery for thousands of property owners who believe the values of their homes and businesses were diminished by the stigma caused by the pollution.

The investigation touched off litigation that lasted through last year, when Barry Bonds was finally sentenced to 30 days of house arrest for obstructing justice during the inquiry.

The consequences of such litigation have also grown due to the high stakes involved, often financial, but as the two right - to - die cases decided last year by the Supreme Court [Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S. Ct. 2258 (1997); Vacco v. Quill, 117 S. Ct. 2293 (1997)-RSB- demonstrate, life and death as well.

In states like New Jersey, he said, adequacy litigation has lasted 40 years and resulted in much higher levels of school spending without marked improvement.

For the last four years, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has championed the set of learning benchmarks known as the Common Core State Standards — but a simmering mess of litigation in the state's court system shows that Jindal has moved as far away from his previous position as he can.

The German - based botmaker made headlines for the last few years thanks to ongoing litigation provoked by its sale of cheat, bot, and hack programs for multiple Blizzard games.

Last year the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), itself, published its own report citing a «drastic rise in patent litigation» that also referenced a USPTO working paper ominously revealing that «economists, legal scholars and policy makers are concerned about the impact of patent litigation on the rate and direction of US innovation and on the functioning of the US intellectual property system.»

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) private client litigation head Rupert Ticehurst has been at the firm since 2011 when he joined from Herbert Smith Freehills, and was last year named as one of the Private Client Global Elite 2017.

The Litigation Center filed dozens of briefs in the last year on issues of personal jurisdiction and venue, has been a regular filer in cases concerning the scope of the Alien Tort Statute, and actively argues for appropriate limits on the extraterritorial reach of U.S. law.

Last year, Hadef & Partners won Property & Construction Team of the Year 2013 and the Dispute Resolution department took home the award for Litigation & Dispute Resolution Team of the Year in 2year, Hadef & Partners won Property & Construction Team of the Year 2013 and the Dispute Resolution department took home the award for Litigation & Dispute Resolution Team of the Year in 2Year 2013 and the Dispute Resolution department took home the award for Litigation & Dispute Resolution Team of the Year in 2Year in 2012.

The use of early case assessment (ECA) software tools is gradually increasing in the litigation support industry, with 37 % of law firms reporting the use of in - house processing / ECA tools in 2014, up from 34 % last year and 33 % in 2012.

King & Spalding in September hired a litigator to run its new energy practice, while Bryan Cave in June recruited Dentons» head of litigation and dispute resolution.Los - Angeles disputes - only firm Quinn Emanuel poached Shearman & Sterling's Philippe Pinsolle to become managing partner in Paris late last year, while Bird & Bird hired two trademark litigators in December.

In the last year there have been a number of articles, studies and industry discussions on the ways that corporate legal departments can control litigation costs.

«The last two years were a crucible for Citigroup Inc., the New York - based financial services behemoth and the biggest client of the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

Greg McEwen has focused his career on complex, high - stakes personal injury litigation, and he has recovered in excess of $ 500 million for clients over the last 20 years.

Last year the litigation specialist firm launched offices in Brussels and Houston and the addition of Seattle takes Quinn Emanuel's US office number up to eight.

The law firm was also the 2nd busiest in UK courts last year in The Lawyer's litigation tracker and was law firm of the year at the Women in Compliance Awards.

For the last 4o or 50 years, law firms have deployed their inexperienced lawyers on aspects of litigation and transactions that billed client companies for aspects of litigation and transactions that don't call for the «10,000 hours» — and that only marginally require any law school background at all.

In the last several months, we have had several very junior and mid-level lawyers for various periods of time working in both our litigation support and contracts management departments, and have senior (more than 15 years) lawyers in operational and executive positions — a few of whom actually live in and work out of Delhi, and some of whom travel and work between India and their bases in the United States.

In a recent decision, the Honourable Justice Myers held that the typical Orders Giving Directions that estate litigation lawyers seek to allow the parties to produce documents are» lengthy, intrusive, expensive documentary collection and investigation proceedings that can last for the better part of a year or more.»

Its London, Ont., office offers a full range of legal services while its Toronto office, which opened in 1986, specializes in litigation and was last year identified by Canadian Lawyer as one of the country's top 10 litigation boutiques.

In a paper for a conference this last December to mark the 10 - year anniversary of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), Professor John Peysner wrote: «Virtually all commentators agree that Lord Woolf's vision of the new litigation landscape has been largely successful except in relation to costs.»

After years of being a fan of the show, Shody, who primarily handles securities and corporate commercial litigation files, scored a spot on the show in February that aired last night.

«Finkelstein's helming of one of the most important contract cases in the last 20 years is another feather in the cap of his storied litigation career.»

Last year, Bad Legal publicly refused to comment on its own speculation that the feed was run by Rob Centa, the managing partner of Toronto litigation boutique Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP.

Last year, Agarwal was counsel for Pro Bono Law Ontario in the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Hinse v. Canada (Attorney General) on the issue of indemnification for legal costs in private pro bono litigation.

For the first time in her storied career, Arbour joined a law firm last year becoming counsel in residence at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Montreal, where she's providing strategic counsel as part of the firm's litigation practice.

He says that while he liked the work he did at Hunter Litigation Chambers, last year, his largest source of work was from Osler, and he «enjoyed the kind of work» the firm was asking him to do.

In the last financial year, KBH has achieved particularly significant litigation victories against a major financial institution and one of the biggest property developers in the UAE.

Now, in the aftermath of last summer's tragic collapse of a portion of a Big Dig tunnel ceiling, killing 38 - year - old Milena Del Valle, the Big Dig may also be known for giving rise to the most complicated litigation in Massachusetts history.

In the last several years, with only around 50 patent infringement actions started per year, other than Dovden Investments, this type of patent litigation does not appear to have become a significant part of Canadian patent litigation landscape.

Litigation remained the No. 1 area of practice in - house counsel outsource at 73.9 per cent — up from 69.8 per cent last year but still below the 2013 number of 82.4 per cent.

In no partiular order: last year's decisions of decisions of the SCC; some provincial appellate decisions; your collegues; the Supreme Court of Canada Law Review; the Advocates» Quarterly, the Canadian Business Law Journal; Carswells Annual Review of Civil Litigation, the past year's «new» material that professors at the University of Manitoba law school will be adding to the their courses for the 2011 - 12 school year; some CLE papers from people you have reason to trust, and prayer to the diety - equivalent of your choice.

There have, of course, been successful elements of the Woolf changes but ask an observer what the overall effect has been and they are likely to say that over the last 10 years the litigation process has become more expensive and complex.

Paul has been involved in some of the highest profile reported court cases and investigations over the last 25 years, including the Lockerbie trial, the largest class action in the UK in the pharmaceutical sector, the Shard of Glass litigation, the Oil for Food Programme investigation, the BTA Bank v Ablyazov case, the split capital trust investment litigation, the worldwide deep vein thrombosis litigation, and some of the leading cases in the field of aviation law.

Last year, the New York Times wrote an investigative report on the nursing home industry and found that the corporations often shield themselves from litigation by setting up a network of dummy companies preventing victims from receiving compensation.

Nearly 80 per cent of litigation partners said they were aware of specific third - party funded cases within the last year.

Take the example of the Department for Exiting the European Union which spent more than # 1.2 m on Brexit - related litigation last year alone.

Instituting a litigation hold at the outset of litigation (or even before) is one of the most important things an attorney can do for their clients, especially with the increase in spoliation motions in the last couple years, and after Zubulake.

In the last few years, we have been fortunate to have the assistance of leading counsel in Canada to assist us in Supreme Court litigation.

Morris has 17 years» experience in commercial litigation, the last eight of which he spent as a partner at Halliwells.

«In the last few years, Foglers has expanded in the core service areas of litigation and real estate with the lateral addition of seasoned senior partners,» says managing partner Michael Appleton.

Signature - which was launched by former Hogan Lovells litigation partners Graham Huntley (pictured) and Helen Brannigan in April last year - has confirmed that all of its 26 staff have received a profit share ranging from 21.1 % to 36.1 % of their salary, following a strong financial performance in its first year since launch.