Sentences with phrase «appeal lawyers understand»

Our Vancouver Family Law Appeal Lawyers understand that over 1/3 of appeals are successful.

Not exact matches

Conservative lawyers and judges have had no special reverence for Holmes, but they have backed themselves into a comparable understanding as they have recoiled from what they see as the vice of liberal jurisprudence: a cavalier willingness to appeal beyond the text of the «positive law,» the law that is posited or enacted, either in statutes or in the body of the Constitution.

«As set forth in the memorandum of understanding, any payment to be made by Apple under the settlement agreement will be contingent on the outcome of that appeal,» Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, the plaintiffs» lead lawyer, wrote in a letter to the judge.

The Superior Court of Justice decision, now largely upheld on appeal, was important because it deals with defamation against a lawyer, but also provided salient points for understanding the nuance of online defamation in the modern era.

Trial Budget: Lawyers should prepare a trial budget prior to mediation so that they have a good understanding of the anticipated expenses if the matter were to proceed to trial, including appeal.

Mind you, that's not nearly as harsh as one recent comment by a (B.C.) corporate lawyer, who described the Quebec Court of Appeal decision as «poorly reasoned, spectacularly wrong in its conclusions and generally reflect [ing] a lack of understanding of both corporate law principles and commercial realities», adding that «parties to sophisticated business agreements will be far better served by agreeing to adjudicate their disputes in Ontario, where the courts generally have much greater commercial sophistication.»

The narrower understanding of the independence of the bar which relates it to the lawyer's duty of commitment to the client's cause is the aspect of the lawyer's special duty to his or her client that is most relevant to this appeal.

Whether the case is being reviewed by an intermediate appellate court or the supreme court, our nationwide lawyers understand the strategies that work on appeal and the climate that effects your case in the particular forum.

You can understand, then, retargeting's appeal to lawyer.

While many human resources lawyers anticipated that the Court of Appeal would take the opportunity to address the trial judge's surprising departure from the community's understanding of the law, they instead endorsed his rationale and analysis in a brief decision.

Chicago criminal appeals lawyer Michael O'Meara understands the appeals process, and has built his reputation on his ability to get results for his clients.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.

Margaret Hatwood, an associate at Thomas Eggar LLP, says she is delighted that the appeal court has reinstated the long - held understanding among family lawyers that a decision made after a fully contested hearing could not be overturned by the trustee in bankruptcy.

The person appealing said she did not understand the settlement and that her lawyer was not authorized to act on her behalf, but the Court of Appeal noted that she was represented throughout the entire mediation.