Thompson professor of Law at Emory University, where he specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law.
WSJ: The Experts: How to Keep Heirs From Losing Their Work Ethic
As one Westerner who has practised maritime and commercial law in Shanghai for the past 15 years, I disagree.
One obstacle is North Korea's lack of familiarity with capitalism and commercial law.
She started her professional life with IBM, and she began her career as an attorney in Brazil practicing commercial law.
The Scottish legal sector is to undergo further consolidation after two major commercial law firms became the latest to announce a merger.
The first reel of the Montezemolo movie starts when he returns briefly to Italy while studying for a masters in commercial law at Columbia University.
"Hong Kong's greatest advantage for business is its high standard for commercial law and predictable and just equality of treatment under the law, " says Anthony M.
Last year, commercial law firms Burness and Paull and Williamsons announced they would join forces, while Edinburgh-based Archibald Campbell and Harley merged with English legal firm Shoosmiths.
Born in the sprawling black township of Soweto and then trained as a lawyer, he became the first black partner at Bowman Gilfillan, a prestigious commercial law firm in Johannesburg.
FORBES: South African Billionaire Patrice Motsepe Joins Giving Pledge
Through them, we'll help China to train judges and lawyers, increase our exchanges of legal experts and materials, strengthen commercial law and arbitration in China, and share ideas on issues such as legal aid and administrative reform.
John Waller in his Indiana Commercial Foreclosure Law blog points out the hazard that this system represents to secured lenders.
FORBES: Indiana Property Tax Collection - We Need Jimmy Stewart
Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law recently held a hearing on three of the bills, aimed at fixing the problem on behalf of state and local governments--which depend on sales taxes to support police, fire, and other crucial services--and calming fears about the negative effect of e-commerce on their tax bases.
He became a QC at 38, and was made Lord Chief Justice, exceptionally, when his background was in commercial rather than criminal law.
The woman pleaded guilty in December to a single count of violating federal medical privacy law for commercial purposes, but herself died of cancer before she could be sentenced, the newspaper reports.
The Kremlin shows no sign of real reform, such as simplifying the tax code, establishing the rule of law in commercial transactions and allowing a genuinely open market for buying and selling land.
These transactions were developed and marketed by an interlocking network of commercial interests, including leading law firms, accounting firms and investment banks.
For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
The commission, as envisioned by Roemer's bill "will have a broad mandate to investigate all relevant facts and circumstances relating to the attacks, " including issues surrounding intelligence, law enforcement, commercial aviation, diplomacy, immigration and border control, according to a statement from Roemer's office issued Friday.
And remember, we are talking about a commercial entity, not a court of law, so even having to use the phrase due process suggests that things are going wrong.
Once such a person has boarded a commercial aircraft, there's no law that says airlines have to tell public authorities who else was on the flight who might have been exposed.
The landowners had argued that a waterway must have a history of commercial use to be subject to common law, which says the public has the right to use it for navigation.
Still, the Japanese are not shy about their fetishes and the law takes a permissive attitude to commercial sex.
Weill, instrumental in the repeal of the Glass-Steagall law that allowed the marriage of commercial and investment banking, is considered the father of such financial supermarkets.
FORBES: Apple Loss Lands Nasdaq And S&P In The Red, Dow Up On Caterpillar, Boeing.
Above two grammes, there could be a charge of supply, but the committee is expected to stress that the law should distinguish between social and commercial supply.
That law, too, targeted a commercial farmer engaged in business.
FORBES: Obamacare Judges Must Answer The "Broccoli Question"
Born in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Wolk is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School who worked as a commercial lawyer in the New York area for years and, more recently, as a general counsel in the life settlements business.
FORBES: Hedge Fund Elliott Management Is Backing Stan Lee Media's Spider-Man Lawsuit Against Disney
She graduated from the University of Miami School of Law last year and now is a commercial litigator.
WSJ: Women Now Constitute One-Third of Nation's Ranks of Doctors, Lawyers
Calls to revive Glass-Steagall, which would end securities and investment banking activities by commercial banks, have never been stronger since the law was repealed in 1999.
FORBES: Don't Hold Your Breath, Big Banks Will Not Be Broken Up
That will make a welcome change, but it will only scratch the surface of the main problem: the misuse of criminal law at all levels for political or commercial ends.
应用推荐