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It is also important to recall that we pursued the 2000 legislation not because we wanted to deregulate for its own sake, but rather to remove what the career lawyers at the US Treasury, the Fed, and the Securities and Exchange Commission saw as systemic risk arising from legal uncertainty surrounding derivatives contracts.
Once upon a time, it was possible to argue that robots would displace workers engaged in routine tasks, but not the highly skilled and educated – not the doctors, lawyers and, dare one say, professors.
As a result, all jobs, even those of doctors, lawyers, and professors, are being transformed.
And then, too, there are auditors, lawyers and regulators.
That is one reason why protesters should raise their own money and hire their own lawyers.
He thinks lawyers would be more “honest and humane” if they were just to “sit down together, look at the evidence, and try to work out what really happened here.”
Most lawyers and judges never enter a criminal court.
Lawyers call this the fact-finding process, which is characterized by a tradeoff: Finding out what really happened, as opposed to ending the dispute, can be costly.
Lawyers gather whatever written evidence they have and submit it to the judge, who then decides.
According to the US lawyers with whom I have spoken, who advise on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, because US screening processes for deals involving Chinese investors can face long and unpredictable delays, Chinese firms often have to pay an extra 15% to make their bids viable.
Fifth, Cambodia has a shortage of highly qualified lawyers, because the legal profession was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge.
Yet, contrary to the practice in other international and hybrid war crimes courts, local law permits only Cambodian lawyers to represent the accused.
For the sake of fairness and due process, this rule must be changed for the Extraordinary Chambers, so that international lawyers can contribute equally to the defense.
In England, the common-law tradition evolved over hundreds of years through thousands of legal cases in which local lawyers, judges, and juries played key roles.
To most Hong Kong lawyers, the display of political authority did not represent simply a reinterpretation of old rules, but a move toward making new ones.
Likewise, more and better-paid divorce lawyers increase GDP, because end consumers pay them.
But more and better-paid commercial lawyers don’t raise output, because companies’ legal expenditures are an intermediate cost.
And when the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, Nazi lawyers carefully studied the US’s long history of policies to close its doors to non-whites.
The hearing’s crescendo was tough questioning of the government’s lawyers by Federal Judge Katherine B. Forrest, who repeatedly asked the government’s lawyers to define the terms “substantially supported” and “associated forces,” which she did not receive, despite restating her question seven or eight times.
We now have it from the US government lawyers’ own mouths: this law may put journalists at risk, or at least the lawyers explicitly refuse to rule out that option for their client – and, as Forrest put it, they have “one very big client.”Forrest
Again, every time, the lawyers for Obama and Panetta said that they could not give her such assurances.
Thus, the income of doctors and lawyers used to be about five times higher than that of manual workers, not ten times or more, as they are today.
It proved to be the tipping point, triggering waves of protests by lawyers and other groups in Pakistan’s main cities.
In many countries, lawyers and judges lack familiarity with legal concepts of discrimination.
The Commission’s competition lawyers announced that they would look into all national clauses, but GM’s recovery and the slow implementation of the German scheme ended up undermining the Magna solution.
The provisions on intellectual property rights, accounting, and conflict resolution were so favorable to Wall Street and US lawyers that they have been criticized for being unfair to the other parties.
The counter-script for establishing or restoring pro-democratic conditions consists of more mass protest; the appearance and display of resistance symbols; the emergence of enough spokespeople throughout society that all of them cannot be arrested at once; overt civil and covert disobedience, at every level of society, that brings the economy to a halt; withdrawal of support by lawyers and judges for the regime’s decisions; international sanctions tied to human rights and clean elections; the refusal – tricky but not unattainable – of many soldiers and police to fire at unarmed citizens; and, finally, when the rule of law is reestablished, serious prosecutions of the defeated regime’s ringleaders.
As environmental lawyers Richard Webster and Julie LeMense argued in 2008, “the nuclear industry…is like the financial industry was prior to the crisis” that erupted that year.
Red Cross volunteers set up card tables in the lobbies of expensive apartment buildings where financial analysts, lawyers, and rock stars live, to inform residents of the offer.
If more people become more highly skilled lawyers, legal cases may be fought more effectively and expensively on both sides, but with no net increase in human welfare.
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