Deal lawyers often seek to insure an outcome using multiple approaches simultaneously; this is colloquially labeled a «belt and suspenders» approach.
Not exact matches
is
dealing with
lawyers (or VCs) who say, «As a firm, we never do a, b, c.» Let me tell you now that
often this line is BS.
They are
often one of the best sources of early - stage
deal flow for VCs because one of the first companies most entrepreneurs do business with is their
lawyers who incorporate their companies.
Other successful acquisitive companies use teams of internal people, outside bankers, consultants and
lawyers to do due diligence,
often over many months to assess
deals.
When Trump needs a
lawyer to wage his thorniest battles, from defamation claims to fights over
deals - gone - south, he has
often leaned on New York litigator Marc Kasowitz, who said he expects to continue representing the president - elect when he takes the White House.
For example, Sarah Judd, a
lawyer with the Vermont Forum on Sprawl who developed the Healthy Kids, Healthy Neighborhoods Program, benefits by understanding what's important in the education world — it's good for the community to understand what schools are
dealing with, what the responsibilities of an educator are, and how teachers are expected to «raise 25 kids» to be responsible adults —
often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.»
Their projects
deal with issues of hospitality, hosting and porousness of identity; while
often working in open collaboration with storytellers,
lawyers specialising in authorship and foreigner rights, an American auctioneer and a group of chess players.
Lawyers and their staff — on a daily basis —
often deal with vast amounts of confidential or sensitive information.
People can not
deal with their legal problems without the help of
lawyers because, the law is now too voluminous, complex,
often based upon technology that must be understood, and requiring one to cope with the large volumes of electronic records made possible by the great automating power of electronic records technology (being the very technology that has created the prohibitively high cost of electronic discovery proceedings).
Attorneys spend a great
deal of time thinking about these things but marketing for
lawyers often doesn't include picking a good domain name for your website.
Because insurance companies rarely have good intentions, it's
often best to let a Cedar City car wreck
lawyer who's used to their shenanigans
deal with whatever complications they bring.
Divorce
lawyers are no stranger to the idea of broken vows, given that they
deal with them every day, even though for married couples they can
often spell disaster.
Our
lawyers are among the leaders in the field who know well and
deal often with the local regulators, as well as claimant law firms.
So, when in need of a precedent, transactional
lawyers often turn first to an in - house database that contains documents from prior
deals.
Often, small to medium law firms contain
lawyers with highly specialised professional experience in
dealing with particular legal issues, which can only be achieved through years of practice servicing a community.
It is caused by at least three other factors: (i) almost every problem law students encounter in law school comes labelled either by the course or by the assigned moot topic; few students ever have to
deal with a simple cry for help from a client; (ii) in my experience at law schools — and it may be different now — almost all research was done in the context of litigation or moots and, while that's obviously an important focus, it's not the only one; and, perhaps the most important factor, (iii) the
lawyers who give the students work far too
often ask the student to «find a case» — this is almost universal focus of litigators — and are uninterested in either context or principle.
Lawyers often forget that while they may be working on many cases at a time, which decreases the amount of attention or emotional investment they can ever give to one individual case, SRLs and clients are usually only
dealing with one case that will have a huge impact on their lives.
i) While
lawyers as a group are
often not popular, most people in fact like (or at least respect) their own
lawyers, if they have
dealt directly with them.
For example, our litigators
often collaborate with our public policy advisers to achieve excellent results for clients, and our transactional
lawyers have completed hundreds of domestic and cross-border
deals, drawing upon complementary practice disciplines when and where needed.
When there are children, long after the dissolution of marriage is done, and the
lawyers are out of the picture, the parties are
often left to
deal with each other for years to come.
Isn't that what we
often ask of our
lawyers in a business context — not to be naysayers, but to be creative and find ways to navigate around legal obstacles to push a
deal through?
Lawyers aren't necessarily looking for the most popular; niche
deals and matters
often have us looking for just a single document or expert.
As a family
lawyer, I
deal with individuals at what can
often be one of the most difficult times of their lives.
Dealing with the aftermath of these situations
often requires the skill of a very capable New Jersey family
lawyer to protect your rights.
Whilst third party funding may
often be the obvious starting point for
lawyers and their clients considering alternative litigation finance, Litigation Insurance should not be overlooked as a complimentary or potentially alternative way to hedge litigation risk, which when used creatively can significantly improve the overall litigation finance
deal cost and maximise the claimant's net recovery from successful litigation.
(A limited scope retainer was
often something that I proposed during initial consultations when it became clear that the client did need the help of a
lawyer but couldn't afford a great
deal of it.
The specialty may not be an area of law —
lawyers practicing in smaller communities and litigators
often deal with a variety of legal questions.
Personal injury
lawyers know too well that insurance companies can be difficult to
deal with and anger can reside when big corporations
often lack sympathy in hope of retaining financial gain.
The lack of sensitivity that
lawyers often demonstrated in
dealing with residential school Survivors resulted, in some cases, in the Survivors» not receiving appropriate legal service.
The third case concerns a very different area, this time one of procedure — where an employer wants to seal a
deal (especially in a multiple case) it will
often offer to organise everything to do with the desired compromise agreement, including paying a
lawyer to give the employee the necessary independent advice.
SRLs find themselves in the midst of a complex and hard to navigate system, trying to interpret forms and documents
often written in what seems to be a foreign language, while
dealing with powerful
lawyers and judges about
often personal and life - altering issues.
For instance, when co-defendants are charged with serious felony counts, the situation
often looks like every man for himself as defendants ask their
lawyers to line up to cut a
deal with the prosecution, even when the
deal will involve snitching against co-defendants.
I think I speak for all family
lawyers when I say it is our wish to
deal with represented litigants because unrepresented litigants
often have the wrong view regarding
lawyers in general and how
lawyers are most
often trying to «trick» or «bully» them.
Tamsin Kaplan, an employment
lawyer at Davis, Malm & D'Agostine in Boston, said she is
often asked by the employers she represents how to
deal with medical marijuana use outside the workplace.
This gives me a little chuckle as I have
often heard him comment, in the context of
dealing with issues of competence of members, that any
lawyer with a practicing certificate is entitled to hang up their shingle and represent clients regardless how long they've been away from day to day legal practice.
What I mean is that it is
often the case that the fact of insolvency can be forgotten where even very experienced
lawyers are
dealing with such separate litigation or tribunal proceedings.
Commenting on the
deal, Peter Jeffery, partner, Moore Blatch, said: «Increasingly, organisations are looking to take their legal services support from
lawyers based outside of London, in the knowledge that the expertise is as good, and
often the terms are much more competitive.
Prosecutors don't have time to try 50 cases and if you have a
lawyer on your side that you respect and have a relationship with they
often will cut a
deal or dismiss the charges.
Because our
lawyers have extensive experience in
dealing with federal and local prosecutors and because we understand prosecutorial perspectives, we can assess situations clearly and develop affirmative strategies,
often creating an option of resolving matters quickly and quietly.
A new guide helping
lawyers effectively
deal with the growth in confiscation The number of confiscation proceedings has been steadily increasing over recent years and it poses a significant challenge for criminal
lawyers who are
often unfamiliar with the legislation and concepts which are more civil than criminal in nature.
Immigration clients have a great
deal at stake, and many pin their hopes on the efforts of
lawyers who
often have little control over the results of administrative decisions.
Press Release NEW TITLE September 2011 Confiscation Law Handbook A new guide helping
lawyers effectively
deal with the growth in confiscation The number of confiscation proceedings has been steadily increasing over recent years and it poses a significant challenge for criminal
lawyers who are
often unfamiliar with the legislation and concepts which are more civil than criminal in nature.
All too
often lawyers must learn to manage their firm's most significant asset — its people — on the fly and without a great
deal of support.
As Vancouver Mandarin and Cantonese speaking family
lawyers we
often have to
deal with property located mostly in BC or mostly outside BC.
I mean you know firsthand how emotional divorces can get and how
often — and you've spoken of this several times — you're really called upon to be a bit of a social worker in terms of how you and other family
lawyers have to
deal with cases.
He has built a reputation as a leading
lawyer, and frequently heads teams in cross-border
deals, the complexity of which
often calls for innovative and ground - breaking solutions.
An editorial published by the American Bar Association calls trial
lawyers «common folks» advocates» and characterizes them as street - smart and intuitive, but
often lack the discipline and patience to
deal with the more mundane details of every lawsuit.
The holiday season can be a difficult time for recently separated spouses, as they navigate new arrangements with their children and
deal with the
often amplified emotions of divorce, says Toronto family
lawyer Richard Diamond.
Even for a Toronto family
lawyer,
dealing with the court registry is
often the hardest part of being involved in a family law dispute.
Many
lawyers and teams I've worked with, once they start thinking about a single bottleneck theory, are
often able to identify their high - level bottleneck (e.g. not enough sales leads, not enough closed
deals, or not enough time in the day to service all of your client demand).