Sentences with phrase «act as a lawyer»

Her attempts at intimidation as their general counsel were hilarious considering the fact that she was acting as a lawyer illegally.
They don't need Jesus, Mary, or a Saint, to act as their lawyer.
... The election - rigging investigation gets even messier on CBS's The Good Wife (Sunday, 9 / 8c) as Alicia (Julianna Margulies) ropes her partner Cary (Matt Czuchry) into acting as her lawyer at a deposition.
Students act as lawyers and jury members to decide whether God exists or does not exist.
How she acts as a lawyer is due to her unhealthy childhood.
Agents usually have a law degree and act as a lawyer on behalf of their clients.
He will sell your home, act as your lawyer to negotiate the agreement and do your conveyancing, all for a flat fee of AUD 4,400.
These rules provide attorneys leeway in some circumstances when they are acting as lawyers outside of the state where they are licensed to practice.
However, particularly with respect to inside counsel, courts will carefully examine whether they were acting as lawyers (whose communications are protected by the privilege) or as business advisers (whose communications are not protected by the privilege).
The difference is not whether or not the lawyer is acting as a lawyer — they are in both instances — but simply in how they frame their assistance in order to offer the most useful assistance to the client (who will be continuing on alone).
The ONCA upheld the decision but, unless the lawyer was instructed by the client to act as the lawyer did, then I doubt very much the lawyer's conduct «cost... [the lawyer's] client a $ 100,000 deposit» or anything else other than, perhaps, wasted legal fees.
The privilege applies only if (1) the asserted holder of the privilege is or sought to become a client; (2) the person to whom the communication was made (a) is a member of the bar of a court, or his subordinate and (b) in connection with this communication is acting as a lawyer; (3) the communication relates to a fact of which the attorney was informed (a) by his client (b) without the presence of strangers (c) for the purpose of securing primarily either (i) an opinion on law or (ii) legal services or (iii) assistance in some legal proceeding, and not (d) for the purpose of committing a crime or tort; and (4) the privilege has been (a) claimed and (b) not waived by the client.
(Please note: The personnel in the Self - Help Program provide procedural information only and do not act as your lawyer and can not provide legal advice to you.)
Supreme Court Justice George Macintosh, had acted as the lawyer for the inquiry committee members.
We act as lawyers to businesses of all sizes, from Sole Proprietorships to Multi-National Corporations in a variety of types of services and industries.
So also the fact that a former judge exercised administrative responsibility in a court does not prevent the former judge from acting as a lawyer in a matter where the judge had previously exercised remote or incidental administrative responsibility that did not affect the merits.
[1] When a person who has been a continuing part - time judge is no longer a continuing part - time judge, including a retired judge no longer subject to recall, that person may act as a lawyer in a proceeding in which he or she has served as a judge or in any other proceeding related thereto only with the informed consent of all parties, and pursuant to any applicable Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct.
The Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct provides that a part - time judge, judge pro tempore or retired judge recalled to active service, may not «act as a lawyer in any proceeding in which he served as a judge or in any other proceeding related thereto.»
(B) shall not practice law in the court on which the judge serves or in any court subject to the appellate jurisdiction of the court on which the judge serves, and shall not act as a lawyer in a proceeding in which the judge has served as a judge or in any other proceeding related thereto.
They added that he was not acting as a lawyer, nor did he use his lawyer's office to facilitate a transfer of funds.
It said, «Such correspondence is the direct result of a lawyer providing legal advice or otherwise acting as a lawyer, is descriptive of the services provided by the lawyer and arises as a result of the solicitor - client relationship.»
(1) is not required to comply with Canons 4A (4), 4A (5), 4D (2), 4E, 4F, or 4H (3); (2) except as provided in the Conflict - of - Interest Rules for Part - time Magistrate Judges, should not practice law in the court on which the judge serves or in any court subject to that court's appellate jurisdiction, or act as a lawyer in a proceeding in which the judge has served as a judge or in any related proceeding.
He has acted as a lawyer before all Divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada as well as before the Federal Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal.
(2) A person who has been a judge pro tempore should not act as a lawyer in a proceeding in which the judge has served as a judge or in any related proceeding.
Comment [1] to Rule 1.12, states that a judge «is not prohibited from acting as a lawyer in a matter where he or she exercised remote or incidental administrative responsibility that did not affect the merits.»
As Adam is not acting as a lawyer, he can not provide legal advice to either spouse.
So, while they may have legal knowledge, they can not act as a lawyer in your case.

Not exact matches

When interests between management and shareholders become adverse, even through the regular course of events, it's important for boards to have their own set of lawyers who are independent from management and seen as objective and willing to act in the interest of directors, not management, and ultimately shareholders.
It is entirely correct that Ford ought to have had the opportunity to speak as a matter of procedural fairness, as his lawyers argued, but that was not what the Act read.
«Sellers need someone who is going to act as a genuine advocate, like a lawyer,» says Blackburn.
It's important because it draws attention to the fact that, unlike doctors and lawyers, many financial advisors are not legally obligated to act in their clients» best interests (this concept known as the fiduciary standard).
We already know Cohen said he didn't inform Trump about the Daniels payment, which experts say means he wasn't even acting as Trump's lawyer.
In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.
To help run EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance — responsible for enforcement of environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act — Pruitt chose Patrick Traylor, a longtime lawyer who has worked helping such clients as «Koch Industries, Dominion Energy and TransCanada, responsible for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline» avoid and rebuff environmental enforcement lawsuits.
On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.
President Donald Trump's former New York doctor says Trump's lawyer and private head of security «raided» his office and took the medical files relating to Trump, an act described by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as «standard operating procedure.»
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars, physicians / doctors and family members of effected individuals who suffered some sort of brain desease etc.... lawyers, so crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain)... NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY WHOSE FATHER EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT LIKE AMERICA TODAY (soon to be success based on deliberate sabotage which is nothing else than grand treason / betrayal with acts of genocide against targeted white population)!!!
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians as well as family member of health efected individuals... Why lawyers!!? So crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY»S FATHER WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!!!
The lawyers may have as much of an aversion as I've had to Donald Trump, but they are the ones who are sent into court to resist the mandates of Obamacare and to defend the Little Sisters of the Poor, the owners of Hobby Lobby, or the doctors and nurses who are invoking their rights under Hyde - Weldon Act not to be forced to participate in abortions.
His conclusion: Evil is multicausal, brings together individual and social factors (Robespierre probably would have lived out his life as a harmless provincial lawyer if not for the French Revolution), and is particular (every act of evil has its own story).
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR number 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians... lawyers, so crime per physicians can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!!!
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians... lawyers, so crime per physicians can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY) = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason!!!)
If we are lucky enough to be chosen, then we have the good fortune of having the resurrected dead man as an advocate, a heavenly lawyer that continually pleads our case to the creator so that he doesn't act on his overwhelming urge to kill us on the spot for being exactly how he made us.
The deists — there are plenty of them around still — held to the lawyer's definition of the acts of God as things that can not be otherwise explained.
In a statement, it said:» [Pray] for wisdom and peace for [the defendants] and their lawyer as the legal proceedings continue, [and] that the judge will act fairly and acquit all men.»
But we now have a third - rate lawyer as head of the FCC — a man who has done more to jettison the intent of the Act than anyone else.
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians... lawyers, so crime per physicians can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) ROMNEY»S FATHER ALIKE WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason!!!)
It seems like they could save a lot of money (particularly the early round picks) by going the Lamar Jackson route of having your mom act as admin and getting a lawyer to look over any contract you sign, but I don't see a need for an agent until the player is a FA.
Netsch said the new lawyer would run the park district «s legal department, while attorney Alexander Polikoff would continue to act as legal adviser to the board.
The human rights lawyer had asked the court to restrain the FederalGovernment of Nigeria, the EFCC and all other authorities from recognizing Magu as the chairman of EFCC, either in acting or substantive capacity.
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