In April 2011 the firm signed a $ 500, 000 contract with the Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives to take on the case of defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage in federal law as the union between one man and one woman, in court for the House, with former Solicitor General Paul Clement, the firm's most prominent Washington, D. C. partner, as its lead attorney.

Elizabeth Head, the firm's first female attorney, was hired.

Its growing budgets, which totaled around US $ 300 million allocated between 2008 and 2011 ( of which $ 190 million had been spent ), came under scrutiny and generated nation-wide controversy when a suspected case of embezzlement by the Chief Financial Officer of Sueños Compartidos, Sergio Schoklender, and his brother Pablo ( the firm's attorney ) arose.

At the helm are the firm's four partners, the founder and senior partner Hannah Crane ; veteran attorney Marty Constable ; the pleased-with-himself attorney Darwin McNeil ; and the former Californian Congressman and newest partner, Tom Montero.

Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times wrote that " Mr. Grisham, a criminal defense attorney, writes with such relish about the firm's devious legal practices that his novel might be taken as a how-to manual for ambitious tax-law students.

The show also starred Christopher McDonald as opportunistic, ambulance-chasing attorney Rex Weller, Julie Warner as Lynn's friend Danni ( and the one member of her former firm's lawyers who did not defect with Lynn's ex-husband ), and Dixie Carter as " pit bull " divorce attorney Randi King.

Its growing budgets, which totaled around US $ 300 million allocated between 2008 and 2011 ( of which $ 190 million had been spent ), came under scrutiny and generated nation-wide controversy when a suspected case of embezzlement by the Chief Financial Officer of Sueños Compartidos, Sergio Schoklender, and his brother Pablo ( the firm's attorney ) arose.

The firm's Chairman, Larry Sonsini, is well known as an attorney and advisor to technology companies.

Financial control tracks and analyzes the capital flows of the firm, the Finance division is the principal adviser to senior management on essential areas such as controlling the firm's global risk exposure and the profitability and structure of the firm's various businesses via dedicated trading desk product control teams.

Where economies of scale refer to a firm's costs, returns to scale describe the relationship between inputs and outputs in a long-run ( all inputs variable ) production function.

It is important to note that a firm's choice of capital structure has a significant impact on how the total value of a company is allocated between equity and debt.

The firm's name arises from the global merger between Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young in 1989.

The firm's coal lands spanned the boundary between Plymouth and Kingston townships, and in 1872, the No. 2 shaft and the No. 2 breaker were constructed, both in Plymouth.

Some researchers have found that the largest CEO performance incentives came from ownership of the firm's shares, while other researchers found that the relationship between share ownership and firm performance was dependent on the level of ownership.

The first Madison Woolen Mill was constructed in 1881 near the bridge between Madison and Anson, with the firm's second mill built nearby in 1887.

In 2006, the company was subject to a proxy fight between billionaires Jim Pattison and Stephen A. Jarislowsky, who owned 30 % and 18 % of the firm's shares, respectively.

Kahn's firm's Moscow office built 521 factories between 1930 and 1932.

A clearing house reduces the settlement risks by netting offsetting transactions between multiple counterparties, by requiring collateral deposits ( a. k. a. margin deposits ), by providing independent valuation of trades and collateral, by monitoring the credit worthiness of the clearing firms, and in many cases, by providing a guarantee fund that can be used to cover losses that exceed a defaulting clearing firm's collateral on deposit.

In most states, a distinction is drawn between knowledge of the firm's general business activities and the confidential affairs as they affect one client.

His firm's designs alternated between revivals of Gothic, Georgian, eighteenth-century French, and classical styles.

According to Andersen, he was fired for refusing to kill a story about a rivalry between investment bankers Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner that had upset Henry Kravis, a member of the firm's ownership group.

If the distance between those isoquants increases as output increases, the firm's production function is exhibiting decreasing returns to scale ; doubling both inputs will result in placement on an isoquant with less than double the output of the previous isoquant.

By the early 1980s, hostilities between the firm's investment bankers and traders ( who were driving most of the firm's profits ) prompted Peterson to promote Lewis Glucksman, the firm's President, COO and former trader, to be his co-CEO in May 1983.

Early in 2009 the firm's contract was terminated with the owner, and all construction activity was halted, due to undisclosed differences between the two parties.

* In financial analysis, intangibles refer to the difference between the book value per share and the share price, or the firm's accounting value and its publicly traded market value ( established through the Stock Market, or through mergers, acquisitions, etc.

The relationship between marginal revenue and the elasticity of demand by the firm's customers can be derived as follows:

These involve managing the relationship between a firm's short-term assets and its short-term liabilities.

There were also technical problems with the Panzer III: it was widely considered to be under-gunned with a 37 mm KwK L / 45 and production was split between four manufacturers ( MAN, Daimler-Benz, Rheinmetall-Borsig, and Krupp ) with little regard for each firm's expertise, and the rate of production was initially very low ( 40 in September 1939, 58 in June 1940 ) taking until December 1940 to reach 100 examples a month.

The Breguet electric car was produced not at the firm's principal plant at Toulouse but at a smaller plant at Anglet ( between Biarritz and Bayonne ).

Franchising is the practice of using another firm's successful business model.

In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the United States after being found guilty of criminal charges relating to the firm's handling of the auditing of Enron, an energy corporation based in Texas, which had filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and later failed.

: Franchising is the practice of using another firm's successful business model.

After leaving the Senate he joined the law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge, as a non-lawyer professional in the firm's national Government Affairs practice.

He worked as a consultant and project leader with the Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ) ( 1979 – 1984 ); instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice.

The firm's principles have been in practice for more than 30 years, Girvin's size has ranged from the founding in the 70s with only several people, to well over 80 employees in the 90s, to a current size of more than 22 creatives, in NYC and Seattle, along with an alliance in Tokyo.

Bobby originally opens his practice with idealistic dreams of protecting the innocent, but during the firm's early days of financial struggle, Bobby quickly learns that drug dealers and other undeniably guilty clients tend to be the ones who provide the business that keep the firm running.

He received a much higher salary and headed the firm's litigation department that had a large corporation and estate practice ( including J. P. Morgan's interests ).

Randt was formerly a partner with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong, where he headed the firm's China practice.

He then lived in Hong Kong for 18 years, most recently as a partner with the international law firm of Shearman & Sterling where he headed the firm's China practice.

* The Legal 500 United States 2010 edition recommended the firm's Finance: Asset Finance and Leasing practice.

* The Legal 500 United States recommended the firm's Real Estate: East Coast practice in its 2010 edition.

In 2005 Carr became Of Counsel at DowLohnes PLLC, a communications law firm in Washington, DC where he works in the firm's Government Relations and Legislation practice as a lawyer and a lobbyist.

There are several professional and government certifications that indicate the firm's trustworthiness and conformance to industry best practice.

The expansion of the scope and nature of the firm's practice required Sullivan & Cromwell to have lawyers in locations more convenient to clients.

Building on the legacy of John Foster Dulles and Arthur Dean, the S & C chairmen during this period, John Stevenson, John Merow and Ricardo Mestres, all aggressively expanded the firm's practice in the United States and around the world.

Partners Rich Morrissey in London and Chun Wei in Hong Kong lead the firm's non-US mergers practice.

The firm's core areas of practice are corporate, litigation and real estate, with specialized areas of focus that include financial services, private equity, leveraged finance, technology, real estate investment trusts ( REITs ) and real estate capital markets, intellectual property and products liability.

Peer group analysis is the practice of comparing a firm's results to those of similar companies or competitors.

In February 2012, Clifford Chance opened a new office in Casablanca, giving the firm's Africa practice its first permanent on the ground presence in the continent.

When, in the 1890s, Penty joined his father's architectural practice, now renamed as Penty & Penty, " a marked improvement in the quality and originality of the firm's work " ensued.

Two early negotiations helped establish the reputation of the firm's sovereign practice, which represents a large number of nations, particularly in the former Communist and other emerging markets.

Five years later he was headhunted by M & A specialists Skadden Arps to develop the firm's European practice from scratch.

Since 1997, he has also headed the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP and is currently of counsel at the firm's Washington, D. C. office.

The main purpose was to build a commercial practice but the firm's reputation was made as a result of George Allen's role as advisor to King Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936.