It creates an unfair, jump-the-gun, time-to-market advantage, by ignoring the rule of law standard of securing permission from property owners before use in the marketplace, a business practice that law-abiding competitors must respect.
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Once the kids began school, he reopened his private law practice part-time, taking only those cases that truly interested him.
In his ruling, Judge Sanders swatted aside free-speech arguments, saying the Texas statute prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law is "content-neutral" because it doesn't target the expression of any particular opinion.
This is a fundamental break from the way legal research has been performed since the mid-1700s, when Sir William Blackstone revolutionized the practice of law by putting English common-law cases into categories.
"As economic situations get tougher, that's when everyone is looking to cut costs, " says Lisa Petkun, partner in the tax-practice group at law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP in Philadelphia.
What if I had chosen to practice law in Oklahoma - or simply asked permission to represent a client in the Oklahoma courts from time to time?
Mr Roh gave up his law practice for politics in the mid-1980s, serving in the National Assembly, where he campaigned against corruption.
For many founders who are acqui-hired, "it's a consolation prize, " says John Coyle, a professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Law who co-wrote a paper on the practice last month with colleague Gregg Polsky.
The practice of sharia-based family law both reflects and to an extent mitigates that conservatism.
Furthermore, our startup creates Web-based practice management tools for the law industry, which even today is considered to be one of the last hold-outs where BlackBerry dominates.
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His ruling means that the law can not be enforced against the four doctors - who practice in or are affiliated with practices in more than a dozen states.
"Cash is the currency when you're settling creditor claims because they're really not equipped to run a business, " said Rick Chesley, co-chair of law firm DLA Piper's restructuring practice who isn't involved in the situation.
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He renewed his calls for the government to change the law governing the UK's DNA databases - particularly the practice in England and Wales of keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of people who have neither been charged nor convicted.
L. in Tampa, Florida whose practice includes white-collar crime, securities law, and financial litigation.
"Public safety is paramount, " said Bernstein, managing partner of the Banking, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group for Michigan-based Plunkett Cooney law firm.
Congress then passed the debt-limit law in 1917 to facilitate debt by ending the cumbersome practice of voting on each debt issue and rollover.
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An agency law conception of the board-officer relationship cogently highlights how bewildering and unhealthy this practice really is.
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Although Brazil has a law against torture - with prison sentences for offenders - the report said that in practice this is never applied.
Rejected from Boston's old-line firms despite his success in law school, he established his own practice, handling everything from wills and divorces to real estate and criminal cases.
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Switzerland and the American state of Oregon have also passed laws which allow some forms of physician-assisted suicide, a practice which goes on everywhere whatever the law says.
The committee is made up of members of both House of Parliament and is examining how the statutory and common law on privacy and the use of anonymity injunctions and super-injunctions has operated in practice.
Dempsey returned to Denver in 1983 to practice law, joining the board of Royal Resources, a public oil-exploration company run by a trout-fishing buddy who had been assigned by a court to clean up securities fraud.
Google is also promising that it will stop copying content from other websites to use in its summaries, even though the company had insisted the practice was legal under the fair-use provisions of US copyright law.
Paul Steven Singerman, the lawyer for Ruden McClosky, a bankrupt law firm that won court permission to keep some insider-pay details confidential, explained the practice.
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According to Mr Mogra, these include - respect for other people and the rule of law, freedom of expression and religious practice, participation in the democratic system and valuing education.
One plan is to extend the practice usual under English-style (as opposed to New York) law of allowing a majority of bondholders to agree to a rescheduling, rather than insisting on unanimity.
Other rules constraining law firm structure, such as rigid rules on conflicts of interest and restrictions on cross-border practice, may also fall.
This is all the more remarkable since Harvey Pitt spent a decade as an SEC staff attorney (including three years its general counsel) then, subsequent to his departure, nearly a quarter-century working with the SEC as part of a highly lucrative practice of securities law.
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Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that during the four hours of closed-door talks the most candid disclosures revealed a discrepancy between how the law is written versus actual practice.
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Most mornings, federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies, as well as private security firms, rent out the ranges for training and target practice.
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