Sentences with phrase «arcane legal»

Some argue that borrowers are using «arcane legal rules» to get free houses when not paying their bills.

Even when railing against grave injustices, we need to be organized and strategic; we need to include often mundane facts and details; we need to discuss dense, arcane legal precedent.

I once had a bet with another barrister over a particularly arcane legal matter.

Over this time, he continued to present and write for CLE, edit practice manuals, advise on the drafting of the new Family Law Act, teach, research and publish arcane legal doctrine, practice law full time, and publish official materials for the Department of Justice.

Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students how to identify issues or problems, but not how to solve them.

I recall that as a very new lawyer pre-Internet, my «practice of law» consisted largely of researching information that was only accessible to those who knew the arcane legal research system — and very little analysis and application to the client's world.

In fact, you don't even need a citation to retrieve a published case these days.33 And beyond the obvious benefits of ease and convenience, this is excellent news for legal research professors; we no longer need to teach the nuts and bolts of navigating arcane legal sources.

Caputo worked to build public sympathy for MercExchange by reducing an arcane legal case to «kitchen table language,» painting eBay as a corporate monster and finding reporters and opinion writers to publish stories about the matter in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

Not exact matches

The converse worry is that a corporate culture emphasizing ethical values may find employees engaging in well meaning activity that may inadvertently expose the company to legal liability or punishment for failing to observe the often arcane, technical requirements of the law.

Mr. de Blasio argued for less restrictive balloting and petition laws, and called for «free legal aid» for candidates less versed than him in the arcane intricacies of City election law.

If this is Everyday Law, a site designed to make common legal issues intelligible, law review journals are like Never - y - day Law, meant to grind fine legal points completely into dust — and dust bins — as they marinate on shelves, obscure, arcane and unread.

And Bloomberg is coming up with a flat rate, rational pricing structure for its legal materials, a far cry from the arcane deals now worked out on an individual basis by WESTLAW and LEXIS.

And even if they manage to secure legal services, their problems do not end — they have to contend with arcane and complex court procedures, they receive poor customer service from their lawyer, they question if the work could have been done more efficiently and, as a result, more cheaply, they don't understand the information they are given, they are not able to judge the quality of the services they receive, they receive bills they do not understand, for amounts they never anticipated.

It does seem ancient and arcane that version, revised, office consolidation and amendment have very specific meanings in the legal world that are different from other sectors.

Wills and trusts has traditionally been an arcane practice area, known for things like attorneys using legal - size paper and terms like bequest, devise, and residue.

While citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation for every source in which the reference might be found.

It is a complex and arcane aspect of our legal system affecting many hundreds of properties each year that requires specialist advice to navigate.

BBC News - The legal profession is perhaps more associated with bulging files of papers, odd clothing and arcane procedures than with technological innovation.

- The legal profession is perhaps more associated with bulging files of papers, odd clothing and arcane procedures than with technological innovation.

Much of civil legal aid work is financed by the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, an arcane fund generated from the pooled interest paid on small amounts of money that lawyers hold in trust for clients.

A few weeks ago I woke up on a Saturday to a small explosion on my Twitter feed (when you write on an arcane topic like legal operations, small explosions seem significant).

At least for student and desktop reference purposes, it should be replaced with a new, shorter guide, one that is first a guide to legal citation practice, not a compendium of arcane and international legal resources or a style guide manqué.