Sentences with phrase «court than any other lawyer»

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A letter that Cohen's lawyers sent to the court on Monday morning states that more than a dozen electronic devices and other items were seized.

Lawyers for Kentucky's Department of Insurance are encouraging a judge to hold Medi - Share, a cost - sharing ministry that helps pay medical bills for Christians who don't smoke or abuse alcohol (among other qualifications), in contempt for continuing to operate in the state more than a year after a circuit court judge ordered the Florida - based group to stop until it meets Kentucky insurance regulations.

Well, there's a reason that they don't let engineers talk to the clients directly... Conversely, while the occasional person is foolish enough to think that they know better than lawyers and try to represent themselves in court or other legal situations, few people are foolish enough to believe that they know better than engineers and that they should be able to build their own airplanes free from the restrictions of conventional avionics.

Acea M. Mosey, who raised more than $ 900,000 to become Erie County's Surrogate's Court judge, will run unopposed after loaning her own campaign half that money and the other half coming from lawyers and law firms that would likely appear before her.

The Court also specified that the order must provide supervising counsel with the ability to authorize the Appellant to direct correspondence to a lawyer in the Civil Litigation branch other than the one named in the order.

There is considerable doubt that the Sixth Amendment itself, as originally drafted by the Framers of the Bill of Rights, contemplated any guarantee other than the right of an accused in a criminal prosecution in a federal court to employ a lawyer to assist in his defense.

Our lawyers argued six cases in the most recent US Supreme Court term and, in the 2015 term, five different WilmerHale lawyers argued eight cases in the Supreme Court — more than any other firm.

Family lawyers and the courts are interested in fairness; financial remedy proceedings are not a game to make one party richer than the other.

The firm defends more suspects held in police custody than any other law firm in England and Wales; and the daily experience of our lawyers at the Magistrates Court, Crown Court and Youth Court is second to none.

Lawyers typically operate in reactive, rather than proactive mode; they are constantly putting out fires, responding to requests (or demands) placed on them by others, whether those demands are made by clients, adversaries, partners or the Court.

With recent small - firm victories at the Supreme Court, looks like Biglaw will have to look for a different approach other than criticizing solo lawyers» competence to attract Supreme Court cases.

In her groundbreaking 1993 report «Touchstones for Change», Canada's first female Supreme Court justice Bertha Wilson stressed the difficulties faced by women lawyers with children, urging the profession to measure a lawyer's performance by standards other than hours billed.

Some of the other overall findings include the statistical fact that plaintiffs in English courts win their cases 75 % of the time, which is more than double the US figure and that self - represented litigants i.e. litigants without a lawyer, generally beat expectations and were often very successful in court.

With only a dozens of professional trial lawyers, TianTong has represented more appeal and retrial cases before the Supreme People's Court than any other law firms in China, and has been keeping one of the highest winning rates among all Chinese law firms before the Supreme People's Court for many years.

They have no choice, other than to do nothing about the legal problems that otherwise compel them to go to court without lawyers.

Similarly, one of the most common reasons for a lawyer to withdraw other than not being paid is that the client simply stops responding to telephone calls, stops showing up to meetings with the lawyer, doesn't respond to mail or email, fails to appear at court for hearings, or at mediation sessions, or at probation officer meetings, etc..

(4) Such cartelization is certain to lead to higher prices to the public (see, to cite only one example among many, many, what happened when a handful of US title insurers replaced 100,000 US real estate lawyers — a «dysfunctional» per the State of California and «invidious» per the Supreme Court of Iowa industry «in which the public pays too much» per the State of California (about four times more than what the lawyers used to charge) while delivering services that are «shit» per an employee of a US title insurer who used to be an independent lawyer until she and all the other real estate lawyers in her city in Florida were put out of business by predatory pricing that lasted only as long as it took to kill the lawyers).

Boston - based Norm Pattis has been called one of the last slash - and - burn trial lawyers by none other than F. Lee Bailey, who is also the author of the new book «Taking Back the Courts.»

Of all the municipal courts, the lawyers of Cowan Kirk Kattenhorn perhaps make more appearances in Kirkland than any other municipal courthouse.

[54] Of course, unlike state supreme courts, if any of these bodies did attempt to assert their authority in this manner, it would not go unchallenged: the bar, and notably the ABA, has on a number of occasions formally challenged the right of any governmental body, other than state supreme courts, to attempt to regulate lawyers in any manner.

Lawyers who appear in First Nations Court have said that time slows there, and the process certainly sounds more time intensive than it does in other courts.

In this case, an English Lord Chief Justice decided that the courts would not tolerate lawyers pronouncing Latin phrases in any way other than according to the courts» immemorial practice.

The legal battle has raged for years through numerous courts, chewing up more than $ 1 billion in fees for lawyers and other advisors.

The problems I encountered were: (1) obfuscation ensured lawyers were the only conduit into the system (the process is now easy to understand with all of the new services and interactive flowcharts); (2) most of my legal fees where for services that did not require a law degree; (3) the most expensive errors were legal errors and there was no reasonable recourse for recovery; (4) the court administration was unable to handle the volume; (5) simple but essential administrative tasks, like filing documents, required either half a day or $ 100 + for every single filing; (6) Security and privacy are completely ignored, unlike every other profession; (7) there is no incentive, nor is there a governing body to ensure the matter is handled in an ethical, humane, timely manner; (8) lawyers have a monopoly and charge more than the market can bear for personal litigation.

In addition to members of the Court, panelists can include judges from courts other than the Ontario Court of Justice, academics, lawyers, and experts from various professions.

For example, in my firm's family law practice, an enormous amount of time is needlessly wasted by lawyers, clients, and pro se parties traveling to and from court for hearings for no reason other than to appear in person before a judge — even when no oral testimony is provided.

«Given that supreme courts in the U.S. are beginning to consider the adoption of regulatory objectives and given that providers of legal assistance other than lawyers are already actively serving the American public, it is especially timely and important for the ABA to offer guidance in this area.»

If he's devoted the time required to learn the subject, and the context which is other areas that could affect the subject, he's probably more competent to do what he's done than many a lawyer taking cases to court.

During the previous term, lawyers from the firm's Appellate practice represented parties in more than 10 percent of the cases before the Court with practice Co-Director Neal Katyal arguing seven cases — more than any other firm or lawyer on the list.

Vancouver Support Averaging Income Lawyers explain that the BC Court of Appeal just ruled that there is no set rule for what income is to be used for cases where income fluctuates other than it must be fair.

In the civil and criminal courts where ordinary Americans appear the most, we should streamline complex procedures and assume that parties will not have a lawyer, rather than the other way around.

Similar functions to those of law firm research lawyers are also carried out by dedicated individuals in government departments, courts, tribunals, and other organizations; these persons are often referred to as advisory lawyers, counsel, or some other term conveying the same meaning — to provide advice to their colleagues rather than directly to external clients (although they may do that also).

The Collaborative Law Rule of Professional Conduct holds collaborative attorneys to a higher standard than traditional divorce lawyers, while the Collaborative Family Law Rule of Procedure, among other things, specifies when collaborative cases begin and end and defines the interaction between the courts and the collaborative process.

It can not be shown to anyone other than the parties to the court case and their lawyers.

Decision Making: After participating in New Ways, parents should immediate work with a New Ways lawyer, coach, mediator or other ADR professional to come to their own agreements, rather than returning to court asking the judge to make decisions for them.