Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.

The great majority of Canadian lawyers do not elect to seek further academic degrees in law.

Gilmore's two court-appointed lawyers, Michael Esplin and Craig Snyder, surprised both the prosecutor Noall T. Wootton and Judge J. Robert Bullock by not cross-examining the majority of the witnesses and offering no defense.

Islamic lawyers commented that when the rulers refuse to step down via successful impeachment through the Majlis, becoming dictators through the support of a corrupt army, if the majority agree they have the option to launch a revolution against them.

The vast majority of the Regents appointed by the Governor historically have consisted of lawyers, politicians and businessmen.

Most states test knowledge of the law of negotiable instruments and secured transactions ( Articles 3 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code ), but Alaska, California, Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania do not ; they have recognized that the vast majority of criminal, personal injury, and family lawyers will never draft a promissory note or litigate the validity of a security interest.

The majority of state funded criminal defence work, however, is provided by private lawyers contracted to the Legal Services Commission and paid by the case under the legal aid scheme.

The smallest law firms are lawyers practicing alone, who form the vast majority of lawyers in nearly all countries.

As a practical matter, concurring opinions are slightly less useful to lawyers than majority opinions.

The majority of Small Claims Court matters are heard by deputy judges, lawyers who have been appointed for a period of three years by the Regional Senior Justice to hear these types of cases.

The large landowners in the Commons felt that it prohibited them from making secure wills, while the lawyers saw it as stripping valuable business away from them by simplifying such cases ; with these groups making up the majority of Parliament, these plans came to nothing.

John Bean disagrees, arguing first that many lawyers were landowners, and would have lost more personally than any reduction in fees could have produced, and second that even if they had been convinced, it is unlikely that lawyers made up a majority of the Commons and could have pushed a bill through alone.

In 2006, Jewell said the lawsuits were not about money, and that the vast majority of the settlements went to lawyers or taxes.

Matlow is quoted in the Toronto Star newspaper: “ We ’ ve heard time and time again from our residents that there ’ s an inequitable playing field ... Developers simply have a better chance at the OMB because they have the financial resources, the ability to get planners and lawyers, anything they need to be able to argue their case ,” This proposal should open the door for discussion of the efficiency and justice of the unelected board that controls the majority of Ontario developments.

Not only was his attorney chosen by the court that was prosecuting him, the registrar is officially required to select a counsel ' prudently ' with regard to their cost, and French and Canadian lawyers were initially excluded from the list ( despite these countries supplying the majority of qualified French speakers who have passed the ICTR bar ).

The majority of prospective lawyers studying for the California Bar attend law schools accredited by the ABA or approved by the CBE.

By the end of the colonial administration in 1974, 30 percent of Timorese were practicing Roman Catholics while the majority continued to worship spirits of the land and sky.

The vast majority of full-time practicing ED physicians in Canada are certified via one of these routes.

However, the AICPA retains its considerable standards setting, ethics enforcement and firm practice quality monitoring roles for the majority of practicing CPAs, who serve privately held business and individuals.

And even if communities that practice according to the Rosh or other authorities like him became the majority, they cannot coerce the minority of congregations practicing according to the RaMBaM of blessed memory, to practice like they do.

Although some women relate stories of times they have noodled, the majority of practicing noodlers were and are men.

The majority of Haris are nominally Muslims while practicing what is generally known as folk Hindu beliefs all over rural Pakistan like head tonsuring and sacred thread ceremonies.

In modern Hebrew, the term Judaization is used to describe the cultural life of baalei teshuvah, or ' returnees ', and refers to ' a process through which secular, non-observant, young ( and not so young ) Israelis who have grown up in Israel within the majority culture, have become practicing Orthodox Jews and have joined the minority subculture of Orthodoxy '..

Ernie Isley, who had joined his brothers ' band as a drummer, played bass on a majority of their 1969-1970 recordings before switching over to electric guitar after he had been practicing the instrument for a while.

However, the situation has improved markedly now the majority of fishermen are practicing catch and release with Australian bass.

A practicing attorney, he defeated Superior Court judge Thomas J. Mellon, Jr. in a runoff election held in November 2008 after coming in first, but not obtaining a majority of votes cast in the June 2008 primary election.

La Rouërie was Catholic, too, although not practicing, he criticized the Civil Constitution of clergy, and prepared a the manifesto of the association: They can not conceal that the discontent of the people is spreading more and more, as the distance that generally reflects constitutional for the priests, as also the general desertion of their church announce too clear, that the wish of the vast majority of the people is contrary to the laws that divided the church, and destroyed the French clergy, without any reason of public utility.

It was alleged that the directors had issued a large number of new shares purely to deprive a particular shareholder of his voting majority.

) The one major exception to this in practice is the axiom of choice — unless studying this axiom in particular, the majority of researchers do not usually worry whether a result requires the axiom of choice.

Members of a particular faction in a legislature may use the power of the majority or supermajority ( passing criminal laws, defining the electoral mechanisms including eligibility and district boundaries ) to prevent the balance of power in the body from shifting to a rival faction due to an election.

Plurality voting is also variously referred to as winner-takes-all or relative / simple majority voting ; however, these terms can also refer to elections for multiple winners in a particular constituency using bloc voting.

Because the vast majority of genes are encoded with exactly the same code ( see the RNA codon table ), this particular code is often referred to as the canonical or standard genetic code, or simply the genetic code, though in fact some variant codes have evolved.

A regional party may gain a majority and rule a particular state.

At the end of May 1945, Stalin proposed a victory toast to the Soviet people, and to the virtues of the Russian majority in particular:

Availability of a trial by jury in American jurisdiction usually depends on the availability of a jury trial in a particular type of case under the common law of England at the time of the American Revolutionary War ( which allowed jury trials in its " courts of law " but not in its " courts of equity "), despite the fact that jury trials are no longer available in the vast majority of such cases under modern English law.

In Scots law the jury system has some similarities with England but some important differences, in particular there are juries of 15 in criminal trials, with verdicts by simple majority.

The majority ( roughly two thirds ) of Latvians, under Swedish influences, adopted Lutheranism, while the minority ( the remaining third ) of Latvians under Poland-Lithuania, Latgale in particular, retained their Catholicism.

Following the Roman occupation and the conquest by the English, education in Wales was at a very low ebb in the early modern period ; in particular, formal education was only available in English while the majority of the population spoke only Welsh.

Although the majority of sects within Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not believe that individuals reincarnate, particular groups within these religions do refer to reincarnation ; these groups include the mainstream historical and contemporary followers of Kabbalah, the Cathars, and the Shia sects such as the Alawi Shias and the Druze and the Rosicrucians.

On 23 February 2005, the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) conservative majority at the French National Assembly voted a law compelling history textbooks and teachers to " acknowledge and recognize in particular the positive role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa ".

This and other differences, in particular Steiner's vocal rejection of Leadbeater and Besant's claim that Jiddu Krishnamurti was the vehicle of a new Maitreya, or world teacher, led to a formal split in 1912 / 13, when Steiner and the majority of members of the German section of the Theosophical Society broke off to form a new group, the Anthroposophical Society.

Also in 1979, in the first revised edition of " Real Magic ", Bonewits defined " thealogy " in his Glossary as " Intellectual speculations concerning the nature of the Goddess and Her relations to the world in general and humans in particular ; rational explanations of religious doctrines, practices and beliefs, which may or may not bear any connection to any religion as actually conceived and practiced by the majority of its members.

" In political systems based on the Westminster system, which is a particular style of parliamentary democracy based on the British model and found in many commonwealth countries, a majority party will form the government and the minority party will form the opposition, and coalitions of lesser parties are possible ; in the rare circumstance in which neither party is the majority, a hung parliament arises.

For the first time, judicial determination was sought, but the effort proved futile: the Supreme Court could not find a majority agreeing on any particular principle, and therefore instructed the trial court to dismiss the case.

A series produced by the Alhambra company of Madrid, the majority conducted by the leading Spanish conductor Ataulfo Argenta had particular success.

The majority argued that " a test for liability that depends on the extent to which particular suits would call into question military discipline and decision making would itself require judicial inquiry into, and hence intrusion upon, military matters.

The Church of England no longer had majority adherence in most parts of Wales in preference to Wales-led Protestantism, in particular Methodism.

In " On Authority ", Engels also wrote of democratic workplaces that " particular questions arise in each room and at every moment concerning the mode of production, distribution of material, etc., which must be settled by decision of a delegate placed at the head of each branch of labour or, if possible, by a majority vote.

The majority in the Uitvoerend Bewind ( Gerrit Pijman in particular ) therefore amended the project in a sense that gave re-federalization even more emphasis.

The majority of Orthodox Christians ( Russians, in particular ) follow the Julian Calendar in calculating their ecclesiastical feasts, but many ( including the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Church of Greece ), while preserving the Julian calculation for feasts on the Paschal Cycle, have adopted the Revised Julian Calendar ( at present coinciding with the Gregorian Calendar ) to calculate those feasts which are fixed according to the calendar date.

Congress strengthened these procedures in the 1934 amendments to the Act, which created a procedure for resolving whether a union had the support of the majority of employees in a particular " craft or class ," while turning the Board of Mediation into a permanent agency, the National Mediation Board ( NMB ), with broader powers.