Sentences with phrase «older lawyers often»

Older lawyers often view any kind of social media as a waste of time.

Older lawyers often dismiss the sites as unbecoming, or they may be less comfortable posting comments, says Pera, who chairs the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems.

Not exact matches

BB was a nice old gentleman and a lawyer with a J.D. Unfortunately, whatever skills he may have possessed in the courtroom did him no good in the classroom, which often resembled a British soccer riot — pure mayhem.

She talked of suicide often, and in 1987, at the age of 71, Sheldon shot her 84 - year old husband in the head, phoned her lawyer and her stepson, and then shot herself.

While wearing my publishing lawyer hat, authors often ask me about how to terminate an old (or unprofitable) publishing contract and obtain a reversion of their rights to the relevant works.

As a publishing lawyer, I often hear from authors hoping to terminate old (or unfortunate) publishing contracts and obtain a reversion of rights to their works.

So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.

Mark Britton Mark Britton, the 51 - year - old lawyer and entrepreneur who founded the often - controversial legal marketplace and lawyer - rating site Avvo in 2007 and served as its CEO ever since, is leaving the company.

In the old days, buying legal services meant hiring a lawyer to represent us in court, but nowadays we can often get bite - sized legal services at bite - sized costs.

Lawyers recognize profound changes to the legal market, but firms are largely sticking to their old business models — often showing a lack of understanding of the forces driving those changes, according to a study released this week.

In the good old days, which weren't really all that long ago, colleagues often knew about another lawyer's drug or alcohol problem but not much was said about it, a few friends may have tried to help but the problem was kept hush hush.

I believe that many younger associates are willing and do work hard but often it doesn't look that way to older lawyers.

This is done by dragging things out when in the old days the lawyers would have told their respective clients not to sweat the small stuff (and that allowed the lawyers to settle earlier and more often and move on to their other files).

(My children often point out to me when I identify issues like this I express them in a manner as confusing as the message in a fortune cookie, which I could accept until the characterization was recently refined to say this would only be the case if the fortune cookies were baked large enough to house the pompous verbosity of an old lawyer.

Although my new position and my old one have many things in common, they are quite different in a number of ways: one of the most interesting distinctions stems from the fact that, as a trial lawyer, I was keenly aware that relevant and determinative facts often emerge from literally millions of pages of documents.

Often times, the old people responsible for the car accident tell our lawyers that it's the first time they've ever been involved in a car accident.

Lawyer marketing often offends older lawyers used to a more genteel approach.

It requires an analytical approach and one should bear in mind the rather harsh old adage that the lawyer who acts for himself has — all too often — a fool for a client; in short, anger may obscure essential facts.

«Software or business method patents are typically broad patents that often cover basic methods of doing business,» said Brian LaCorte, a lawyer at Ballard Spahr, who is skeptical about patents that describe using a computer to implement age - old ideas such as escrow accounts.

As we've noted before, Google's non-aggression pact is no magic bullet to stop nuisance cloud - based lawsuits, in part because it provides little deterrent to so - called trolls — shell companies, often backed by lawyers and private investors, that do nothing but acquire old patents in order to file lawsuits.