Sentences with phrase «plaintiff lawyers face»

«Incivility: I know it When I See it — Double Standards that Plaintiff Lawyers Face,» AAJ Convention, January 2008, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Speaker)

Not exact matches

Lawyers for the plaintiffs said more than 90 former and current Google employees admitted to facing discrimination, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In the oral arguments, Jim Finberg, a lawyer for the California Federation of Teachers and the California Teachers Association, and Deputy State Attorney Nimrod Elias insisted that plaintiffs have not shown that the statutes are unconstitutional on their face or have caused the plaintiffs any significant harm.

Her face would simply stretch into a sarcastic smile when Knoedler's lawyers tried to discredit the plaintiffs» witnesses.

Exxon and other fossil fuel companies could face «a huge universe of potential plaintiffs» in civil liability suits in coming years, said Carroll Muffett, a lawyer who is president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, with offices in Washington and Geneva.

The risk of an adverse cost award can deter a plaintiff with a valid claim proceeding to trial in the face of an offer to settle which their lawyer advises them is unreasonably low.

However, if the plaintiff faces an adverse cost award, they may remain liable to their lawyer to pay some or all of these disbursements.

Plaintiffs awarded punitive damages by a jury against their insurers should expect to face an appeal, Toronto personal injury lawyer Gary Will tells AdvocateDaily.com.

But the plaintiffs in Flint may face an uphill battle in a civil rights case, according to Peter Hsiao, an environmental lawyer with Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles.

With the ever - decreasing Statutory Accident Benefits available to injured persons in Ontario, many plaintiff lawyers will be facing the dilemma of how to bridge the financial gap for their clients until their tort claim can be settled.

Nursing Home Claims Privilege in Face of Plaintiff's Discovery Request, South Florida Personal Injury Lawyers Blog, published October 5, 2017.

While legal tech faces obstacles marketing to billable hour model firms, they face different hurdles marketing to plaintiffs lawyers.

Faced with what I'm sure was a limited policy given the scope of the tragedy, Plaintiffs» accident lawyer did what good accident lawyers do: they got creative.

Further, if the lawyers are paid based on a percentage of recovery for the group, what incentive do they then have to really consider the unique circumstances facing each Plaintiff?

This means plaintiffs would not need to prove that the defendant's actions caused or materially contributed to the harm suffered, which lawyers say is the biggest hurdle litigants face when trying to bring lawsuits against emitters in Canada today.

One of the biggest criticisms made by plaintiff ICBC injury claims lawyers was that the old Rule 37 was unfair to plaintiffs as a person injured in a car accident was always in a worse financial position to face the consequences of losing at trial than ICBC.

With at least six Florida personal injury lawyers now facing unrelated criminal charges for defrauding auto insurers and the Sunshine State already in the running for this year's # 1 ranking among the nation's Judicial Hellholes, a panel of four federal judges last week imposed nearly $ 9.2 million in sanctions on two Jacksonville - based plaintiffs» firms for their shameless pursuit of more than 1,200 «frivolous and factually baseless lawsuits» against tobacco defendants... → Read More: Two Florida Firms» Fraudulent Tobacco Claims Draw Nearly $ 9.2 Million in Sanctions