Sentences with phrase «as lawyers in these cases»

So, while they may have legal knowledge, they can not act as a lawyer in your case.

Not exact matches

Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

It came as a surprise to some who know or have worked with Joanna Hendon that she would represent President Donald Trump in the case against his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.

Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.

Signs of Flynn cooperating with Mueller's team surfaced in the past week, as his lawyers told the legal team they could no longer discuss information about the case with them.

This is particularly important in the case of businesses and services where recommendations from other users, such as lawyers, are key.

As in the Tsarnaev case, Malvo's lawyers did not contest their client's guilt.

I'd highly suggest management in every company, no matter how big or small, use the Jian Ghomeshi and CBC case not as a reason to lawyer up, but to wake up.

As for whether to consult a lawyer when crafting a warning letter, in most cases it's a good belt - and - suspenders measure if you can afford it, but some experts say it's unnecessary.

Making a Murderer is one of multiple examples of a true crime narrative so evocative that it revived momentum in a once dormant case, as Avery recently hired a new lawyer in the hope of mounting a fresh appeal of his 2007 conviction.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

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.

Lawyers for Boeing present the dispute as a classic case of illegal subsidies and dumping, or selling products at below - market prices in foreign countries.

Rudy Giuliani is wasting no time as Trump's new lawyer, calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in on the Michael Cohen case and comparing the investigators to «storm troopers.»

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

While Holmes frankly admitted that he hated facts and used them only as pegs on which to hang legal principles, Brandeis, as a practicing lawyer, immersed himself in the facts of a case to show that a particular outcome was the more just.

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

It's a fact; lawyers have intentionally run up the tab filing as many appeals as possible in order to make the claim that death penalty cases are «too expensive».

As Elliott and his lawyers have jostled with the league over the legality of the discipline, Jones has taken aim at the commissioner he once championed, calling his suspension an «overcorrection» after years of weak rulings in similar cases.

A lawyer for Karim Benzema has described his client as «leading 3 - 0 in the 89th minute» after a court gave him a boost in his alleged extortion case.

A lawyer for Karim Benzema has described his client as «leading 3 - 0 in the 89th minute» after a French court gave the Real Madrid striker a boost in the case of alleged attempted extortion of Mathieu Valbuena.

In contrast, OB's are required to carry insurance and as a result, most lawyers will take on a malpractice case if the damages are likely to be adequate to cover the cost of pursuing it.

«I don't think there's any doubt that the crime merited a life sentence, given the amount of damage that Mr. Pollard did to the United States government,» AP quoted Joseph diGenova, who prosecuted the case as a US government lawyer in Washington, DC, as saying.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

In which case, it would be helpful to explain why the Commission as at the date of the alleged petition, has been unable to pay its lawyers for the 2013 Presidential election petition.

As such it fits a pattern of senior people, close to Trump, having contacts with Russian agents, in this case, a lawyer who has some (disputed) connection to the Russian Government.

Only an infantile lawyer like Okudzeto Ablakwa would refuse to cut his losses as I did when he knows that governments in Ghana do not pay for any fees associated with filing and prosecuting civil cases except legal costs, damages, and other awards.

Calls and emails to Howe's attorney, as well as lawyers representing the four defendants in the case, were not immediately returned.

Taub said in 2003 a childhood friend who also had worked as an Assembly lawyer told him, «Shelly wants cases.»

On his part, another defence lawyer in the case, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), described as «irritating» the oversight excuse given by the agency as the reason for the failure to produce the ex-NSA in court on Tuesday.

The twice defeated flag - bearer of the NPP, Akufo - Addo, who claims to be a lawyer and if true, should know better, saw the Woyome case as an issue he could anchor his tottering campaign to for victory in the 2012 elections..

«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.

Gatz noted that the only way to rebut the accuracy of what agents recorded her as saying would be to call Carman as a witness, but a lawyer can not represent a person and be a witness in the same case.

Goldberg, who has known Silver for 65 years, said he had previously paid referral fees to lawyers who sent business his way, but asked Silver if it was legal in this case because of the pol's status as speaker.

Breslin concluded that the case should have been led by Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who is elected, not the Justice Center whose lawyers do not stand for election, as required in the state Constitution.

Now it may be the case that Ahlam Jaoui of her parents» house in Bay Ridge, who is signed up to find work as a trade show brand ambassador, who is willing to pose wearing a hijab and say that she wants to drive a taxi, and whose LinkedIn profile lists her as still working for an out - of - business investment company, is also a well - positioned power broker who can convince lawyers and business owners in Westchester and New Jersey to contribute thousands of dollars to Mayor de Blasio's re-election campaign.

Accra High Court presided over by Justice Barbara Tetteh Charway has ordered lawyers for the Electoral Commission [EC] and the All People's Party, APC, to file their statements of case simultaneously in the suit seeking to quash the disqualification of Hassan Ayariga as a presidential candidate.

One of the lawyers who issued a taxpayer - funded report exonerating New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the Bridgegate affair is co-hosting a $ 2,700 - a-person Los Angeles fundraiser for the governor's presidential campaign — even as her firm continues to represent his office in the ongoing case.

Gloria Allred, a lawyer who worked with Mariann Meier Wang on the case that cost the Assembly $ 103,000 (itemized as «legal services»), said in her own statement that a comprehensive probe of such incidents should always occur.

Carter, a former U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, told reporters outside the court that the case involved «ordinary charges» related to his private life as a lawyer, not «official corruption.»

Publicly, he represented himself as a lawyer who represented «plain, ordinary simple people» in personal injury matters and did not have any cases pertaining to state business, but prosecutors said the work was nothing more than a sham.

To the lawyers reading this article I say the following: if this interpretation does not sit well with your legal conscience, then consider that the Supreme Court has departed from its previous ruling in the previous Abu Ramadan case, as it is entitled so to do.

As The Times Union first reported today, lawyers for former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno filed a slew of documents in federal court seeking to dismiss the second indictment of public corruption charges calling the new case «fatally flawed.»

This week, the families of the Newtown shooting victims plan to be in Hartford, listening as lawyers lay out in state Supreme Court their case that the companies that manufactured and sold the military - style assault rifle used by the gunman bear responsibility for the attack in which 26 people, including 20 children, were killed.

The President said the judiciary was his problem, while the legislature holds the judiciary in disdain, even as lawyers who lose their cases condemn the Bench.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, the head of the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan, recently told the judge that breaking the case into two trials is fair in order to accommodate scheduling conflicts for defense lawyers as well as Ciminelli's health issues.

I took the decision because taking full cognisance of the several cases in court as a lawyer and without delving into any analysis here for obvious reasons, I am convinced Sheriff will soon be vindicated by the court as National Chairman.

Instead we should try to give the reader something more, such as «sources familiar with the thinking of defense lawyers in the case,» or «sources whose work brings them into contact with the county executive,» or «sources on the governor's staff who disagree with his policy.»

«Arbitration is an increasingly common way for state or local and tribal governments to resolve their differences,» said Gabriel S. Galanda, a lawyer in Seattle who has represented tribes in various cases and has served as an arbitrator in state and tribal disputes.

I conduct my cases in Court as plaintiff since I ceased to practice as a lawyer from January 2012.