Sentences with phrase «practice of law often»

Practice of law often differs greatly from theories found in law books and from mock trials in a law school.
I think the practice of law often demands something a little bit more fluid where mentors, really, just someone you call when you have a question or you have a crisis.

Not exact matches

«We do this very often for high - net - worth individuals,» reports Daniel Mielnicki, the national coordinator of the wealth - preservation practice of law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP.
What annoys me about this behavior, which is practiced very often today as well, is that for some reason corporate managers seem to act like these buybacks — when they are earmarked for the purpose of offsetting stock options — exist in a vacuum where the laws of economics are suspended.
Certainly William Blackstone and Christopher Columbus Langdell, often cited as Holmes» targets, were as alert to the value of experience as Holmes was; it ought to be clear to any practicing lawyer that the life of the law requires both experience and logic.
Does the fact that the humaneness of bonded child labor, often tied to the caste system, is disputed within India mean that «no unifying demands» should be placed on that country to halt the practice, or that India should not pass laws on the subject (as it has) until its citizenry is of a common moral mind?
They often include provisions about religious practices for the couple and for any children who may arrive; whether or not they plan to have children; what they will do in the case of a pregnancy not wanted by one or the other; what will happen if the couple decides to separate; what the financial arrangements will be in such a case; what provision will be made for the children; how in - laws, relatives, and friends will be included in the relationship; what sexual practices will be followed; under what circumstances the couple will move from one home to another; whose job will take precedence; and what kinds of freedom each partner is to have.
It is also interesting to note that where customary law — adat — deviates from religious law and can not be reconciled to it even in a formal way, it is often customary law which is observed, and such observation is not derogatory to religious sentiment nor to the conscientious observance of the religious obligations and practices of Islam.
RACHEL JACKSON: Ok, my name is Rachel Jackson I am the mother of two boys ages three and five years old I've been practicing law for about 16 years and was often travelling for work and struggling with breastfeeding and pumping and trying to find a sanitary place to pump and I ended up having so many bouts of mastitis and plugged ducts because of it, that I ended up, I started giving up a lot of work because it was just too hard to pump.
Arguably, state officials with a legislative role who are not members of the state legislature aren't covered, but this does not reflect common practice and this hole is often filled by a state constitutional provision or a state law or a local government charter.
In an article recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), investigators on The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice's Open Recordings Project explain the often - confusing laws around recordings clinical visits.
What sounds good in concept often stumbles in practice, which is why it's important to revisit laws regularly (that hasn't happened with No Child Left Behind because of the stalemate in Washington).
Obama gave these views in signing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the latest amendments to ESEA.3 The President also noted that the goals of the former law were right; but, in practice, it often fell short.4
The practice of law is often about conflict: winners and losers, suing or protecting against suits.
My Journey presents Why I am Not A Big Proponent of Revocable Living Trusts posted at My Journey to Millions, saying, «In both my law practice and day job Revocable Living Trusts come up often, however, I am not a particularly big proponent of using them for one specific reason discussed below.»
What annoys me about this behavior, which is practiced very often today as well, is that for some reason corporate managers seem to act like these buybacks — when they are earmarked for the purpose of offsetting stock options — exist in a vacuum where the laws of economics are suspended.
Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.
«First Wind is not always going to agree with us because we want the Cadillac of all best - management practices, and to go above and beyond what the law requires,» Koffman said, but «they're often very willing.»
Under Indian law, upon inheritance, sons and daughters should get an equal share of the parent's assets, but in practice, the sons often take all of the land.»
Associations often have sections for substantive practice areas, and they may also have sections for other aspects of practice such as law practice management, technology in law, or solo practice.
Hilland said feedback from Aboriginal lawyers and law students found they often faced specific cultural challenges and lacked experienced mentors to provide counselling to address their concerns about the practice of law or career advancement.
The TBD experience requires you to think outside of the box and challenges the barriers that we often build to limit our law practices.
Those systems are very often poorly managed and very error prone in both their records management and in their software; see: «Records Management Law — A Necessary Major Field of the Practice of Law.
These are usually cleared up fairly easily, by providing the non-Native courts the law and authority upfront, but there are many jurisdictions that have no experience in Native American law and are often surprised when the see the complexity of the practice and the high quality of the work that is being done in tribal courts.
«I have always been outraged about the California bar's often overzealous paranoia about «UPL» (unauthorized practice of law)-- and attacking efforts by paralegals and others to help out the underserved.
In a similar way, larger law firms often struggle to effectively create and distribute legal content, because they too are full - service «bundlers» of specific legal expertise that is actually based in their individual practice or industry groups.
Private law librarians (ie, law firm librarians) are closely attuned to the practice in their firms, often specialized in one area of law (eg, labour or criminal or business law) and removed from the hurly - burly of court.
Often lauded as «practical» by her clients who appreciate her «realworld» advice, Jill focuses her practice on HIPAA and other federal and state privacy and security laws, the implementation and use of electronic health records and health information technology, and compliance with the federal Stark Law and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute.
New Hampshire litigation encompasses many complex legal areas and attorneys often devote their practice to certain type of litigation, utilizing specific knowledge and experience of the law that enforces the dispute.
Private law practice is a business and lawyers are motivated by profit; the success of a law firm's business often correlates with the success / quality of its law practice.
Much of his practice focuses on large - scale commercial litigation, often with a significant international element, involving conflicts of law and foreign law systems as well as issues of jurisdiction.
Even if you are a lawyer, the law is so complicated that to understand niche practice areas you often need the help of yet another lawyer with suitable training.
There is often overlap between the areas of practice engaged in by Mr. Winkler and Intellectual Property law.
Despite the importance of legal research in legal practice, I'm often surprised at how many first - year law students (and sometimes others) seem disinterested in the topic.
However, attorneys have often expressed skepticism that the practice of law would benefit from such advances.
I've often thought there should be a sort of Myers - Briggs Type Indicator for legal practice that guides lawyers into career paths in the law according to their personality type.
But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.
The family law professional most often needs to be a skilled litigator, with talents in and out of the courtroom, in mediation, depositions, and every other forum where attorneys practice their trade.
growing practice by unscrupulous residential tenants to manipulate the law improperly, and often dishonestly, to enable them to remain in their rented premises for long periods of time without having to pay rent to their landlords.
[1] My recent experience sitting as a single judge of this Court to hear motions has convinced me that there is a growing practice by unscrupulous residential tenants to manipulate the law improperly, and often dishonestly, to enable them to remain in their rented premises for long periods of time without having to pay rent to their landlords.
Lawyers in a range of practice areas — from tort to IP to biotech and beyond — can attest that scientific research is often an important aspect of law practice.
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.
Administrative law as a practice area sometimes gets a bad rap for being comprised of Byzantine rules of procedure (often completely unique to the specific tribunal in question), frustrating decision makers, and shifting standards of review.
In a Divisional Court decision released earlier this month, Justice Matlow noted the «growing practice by unscrupulous residential tenants to manipulate the law improperly, and often dishonestly, to enable them to remain in their rented premises for long periods of time without having to pay rent to their landlords» and called on the Ontario Government, the Landlord Tenant Board (the «LTB») and the Courts to respond.
For a law practice, typically the blog is a critical piece of SEO strategy, and one that is so often overlooked.
We often work with clients on their employment agreements, policies and handbooks, and conduct audits of personnel policies and practices ranging from specific issues to comprehensive audits of all the company's employment law practices.
Meyerson added that when he asked young law firm recruits what kind of law they wanted to practice, he was often disappointed by their answers.
In my law practice I often began morning instructions to my staff with «In the middle of the night, I remembered that we need to...» One day, my paralegal responded, «Don't you ever sleep through the night?»
As for the rest of what you just wrote, were it possible to send you back in time, you'd find that there is no practical difference between being in law school then and being in law school now other than that you've far more options in what to take including practice - focussed courses, the modern facilities are far better and the men often had hair as long as, or longer than, the women — even amongst the professors.
The feasible responses seem to be (i) move into higher - end work, often of an advisory or highly specialist nature: Jeremy Robinson, aviation and competition law partner at Gates and Partners, solicitors, believes that the competition in his practice area does not come, and is unlikely to come, from PLFs or ABSs anytime soon; (ii) form collaborations short of ABSs or multi-disciplinary practices with complementary non-solicitor businesses (Martyn Taylor, MD of respected solicitors agency, Ashley Taylors, has noticed a huge increase in the number of solicitors» firms looking to work on litigation - related joint projects with Ashley Taylors; (iii) to the extent possible adopt the practices of more successful competitors; (iv) innovate.
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