These systems played a role in ending the guilds ' dominance, as trade secret methods were superseded by modern firms directly revealing their techniques, and counting on the state to enforce their legal monopoly.

Yet, the ability to establish and conduct business easily has been cause for economic hardship ; the 2010 the World Economic Forum ranked Poland near the bottom of OECD countries in terms of the clarity, efficiency and neutrality of the legal framework used by firms to settle disputes.

Due to the growing sophistication of Chinese laws, the expansion of the rule of law, as well as an influx of foreign law firms, China has also begun to develop a legal services market.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

It is currently rated 17th in " overall prestige " and 12th among New York law firms by Vault. com, a website on legal career information.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP was among the stable of law firms to which the Mayor had no-bid awarded the City's legal work.

Such jurists can practice law as employees hired by law firms or legal departments of other business entities.

Richmond's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as notable legal and banking firms, located in the downtown area.

Because of the wide array of legal requirements and because it is an expensive process, IPOs typically involve one or more law firms with major practices in securities law, such as the Magic Circle firms of London and the white shoe firms of New York City.

Before legal actions initiated by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, which later became known as the Global Settlement enforcement agreement, some large investment firms had initiated favorable research coverage of companies in an effort to aid Corporate Finance departments and retail divisions engaged in the marketing of new issues.

In 1991, Time magazine estimated that the Church spends an average of about $ 20 million per year on various legal actions, and it is the exclusive client of several law firms.

Private property is the employment, control, ownership, ability to dispose of, and bequeath land, capital, and other forms of property by legal persons and privately-owned firms.

It is common in the legal profession and is increasingly seen in marketing, technology, and strategy consulting firms.

While the need to create a legal framework for existing bank securities activities became a dominant theme for the “ financial modernization ” legislation supported by Leach, Rubin, Volcker, and others, after the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 in 1999, commentators identified four main arguments for repeal: ( 1 ) increased economies of scale and scope, ( 2 ) reduced risk through diversification of activities, ( 3 ) greater convenience and lower cost for consumers, and ( 4 ) improved ability of U. S. financial firms to compete with foreign firms.

* Outside counsel ( law firms ) v. in-house counsel ( corporate legal department )

* implies a distinction between it and other firms ' products-of course, within the usual legal constraints

George Winterton provided legal advice to Commonwealth and state governments, other public bodies and law firms.

The LL. B ( Hons ) programme from UiTM is unique in the country in which the students are put in a simulated legal office environment in which they are designated in firms and given case studies.

Most firms offer fixed price services which usually includes costs of searches, legal advice and other outlays.

Law firms and legal departments are cutting costs and increasing access to legal services by hiring paralegals.

The right to use only a title as a legal signature is only permitted to bishops, Peers of the Realm and peers by courtesy.

However, legal title to all land in the City of Berkeley remains based on the original Peralta land grant.

* categorizing and prioritizing rights to property — for example, the same article of property often has a " legal title " and an " equitable title ," and these two groups of ownership rights may be held by different people.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the legal title of The Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church.

In the legal profession, graduates of almost all Canadian law schools receive the LLB degree and are not referred to as " doctor " ( in a growing number of Canadian law schools the degree of Juris Doctor is conferred, but the title is not used in practice ).

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

Guyana regards its legal title to all of its territory as sound.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

John argued that Frederick had no legal authority to make such demands and refused to give up either title.

Henry, reoccupying most of the Lancaster lands, was made constable of Kenilworth and Edward was transported there in late 1326 ; Henry's legal title to the castle was finally confirmed the following year.

Their visit to the Pacific Northwest, maps, and proclamations of sovereignty with medals and flags were legal steps needed to claim title to each indigenous nations ' lands under the Doctrine of Discovery.

According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920: " draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League ... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations ,"

Native American legal materials collection, title 1227.

In 1964 the NSAUHG filed a lawsuit against the National Spiritual Assembly ( NSA ) of the Bahá ' ís of the United States to receive the legal title to the Bahá ' í House of Worship in Illinois, and all other property owned by the NSA.

" In natural resources, he sees two types of property, de jure property ( legal title ) and de facto property ( physical possession ), and argues that the former is illegitimate.

# it counts the factors that connect or link the legal issues to the laws of potentially relevant states and applies the laws that have the greatest connection, e. g. the law of nationality ( lex patriae ) or domicile ( lex domicilii ) will define legal status and capacity, the law of the state in which land is situated ( lex situs ) will be applied to determine all questions of title, the law of the place where a transaction physically takes place or of the occurrence that gave rise to the litigation ( lex loci actus ) will often be the controlling law selected when the matter is substantive, but the proper law has become a more common choice.

Squatters often claim rights over the spaces they have squatted by virtue of occupation, rather than ownership ; in this sense, squatting is similar to ( and potentially a necessary condition of ) adverse possession, by which a possessor of real property without title may eventually gain legal title to the real property.

The trustee has legal title to the trust property, but the beneficiaries have equitable title to the trust property ( separation of control and ownership ).

In particular, ownership of a matrimonial home is commonly effected by a trust with both partners as beneficiaries and one, or both, owning the legal title as trustee.

" This generally occurs due to some wrongdoing, where the wrongdoer has acquired legal title to some property and cannot in good conscience be allowed to benefit from it.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Complementing the political principle of nationalism is the legal principle of sovereignty.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

if he is legal, he may not be good.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

The appeal is going to be to the pocketbook and may be very convincing to those who do not see its relation to political and legal, as well as economic, self-rule.

To think that we can merely relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political or legal autonomy is wishful thinking.

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

My object, rather, is to alert you to an aspect or two of the affair that could have the gravest implications for you, far beyond the legal sanctions society might inflict.