Now we have the specter of competing law enforcement agencies.
Similar calls for such a high-ranking coordinator have been sounded repeatedly, but have died because of longstanding rivalries among competing law enforcement agencies.
A protest was filed by a competing law firm, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, which complained that this amounted to the government's paying Winston & Strawn to review its own work.
To accomplish these goals, he sought to define the products the school offered, then differentiate those products from competing law schools and, finally, to market the school, its teachers and its offerings.
There are lots of different issues that a variety of people want addressed in the new act, but my guess is that there is a concern about another competing law, the law of unintended consequences.
Regardless, a challenge for a small police department without a dedicated traffic enforcement unit is keeping focus on traffic enforcement during times of reduced police officer staffing, with competing law enforcement issues similarly requiring their attention.
To be sure, deaths like these are not common, but they expose two competing laws: one that requires a county to pay for the burial of indigents, and another that requires the town where the person lived to pay.
Congress could easily resolve the issue of competing laws, if it really cared to, by simply revoking the 2001 joint resolution that authorized the president "to use all necessary and appropriate force".
Gay Americans who visit Canada to marry may revel in their newfound status there, but they will come home to a confusing patchwork of overlapping jurisdictions and competing laws and are likely to face a struggle for recognition, legal experts say.
These have now reached a size where they outgun most law firms: by headcount, PwC's legal arm is the world's tenth-biggest, and all four networks' law divisions are in the top 40 by this measure.The accountants insist that they do not want to compete with law firms, and that legal services will remain a small chunk of their revenues in the medium term.
