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To date, much of the discussion about re-inventing legal services has been disproportionately directed at lawyers who serve the corporate market.

Our cover story looks at lawyers who opted out of private practice and are following a career in public service.

Two years ago, when partners at the Schnader Harrison law firm first began talking about setting up a consulting business aimed at lawyers who need help sharpening appeals - court arguments, a threshold question was whether it would make money.

The students have already posted advance looks at the lawyers who will try the case and the judge who will preside over it.

It's not often we profile a legal department the way we have in this issue, taking a look at the lawyers who make up the extraordinary team at Toronto Community Housing Corporation.

Manhattan federal court Judge John Sprizzo ranted in court yesterday at a lawyer who'd...

«It has lurched from strategy to strategy, and aimed itself at any lawyer who would have it.»

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«I think there's some lag with the FEC catching up with the times,» says political lawyer Troy McCurry, who served as counsel to the FEC's Republican commissioners at times from 2010 until this year.

Emma Channing, a lawyer who frequently works with blockchain start - ups, recently raised an alarm about the intrigue at the I.S.O. standards group.

Always an excellent student, Gates scored a 1590 out of 1600 on his SAT and enrolled at Harvard University, pleasing his parents who encouraged him to pursue a career as a lawyer.

Be it hiring an assistant or bringing on a professional accountant, recruiter or lawyer who could solve the problem at hand, I was forced to take the steps needed to rectify the situation.

A key presumption of the system is that we are most likely to arrive at a just outcome if all parties to the dispute are represented by lawyers who vigourously pursue their clients» interest.

Still another dilemma: «You have teachers, lawyers, doctors and engineers who have studied at Cuban universities, but many of them don't necessarily have practical expertise, because the engineer hasn't actually built a bridge, or the architect hasn't built a building,» Periu says.

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.

«What happens with Facebook is you don't know what you don't know,» said David Lopez, a former general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who is one of the lawyers at the firm Outten & Golden bringing the age - discrimination case on behalf of the communication workers union.

OneOne is aimed at business executives, lawyers and even doctors, according to Abosch, who said professionals could use the app to send sensitive documents and messages to each other.

«But I think she's obviously a very, very good lawyer,» said Koenigsberg, who is a partner at Menz Bonner Komar & Koenigsberg.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

Distributors generally didn't identify suspicious orders and the DEA didn't investigate them, says Larry Cote, a former lawyer for the agency who now represents the industry at the firm Brady & Quarles.

«I do think clarity is particularly important in this context, and right now there is a lack of clarity,» said Stephen Ascher, a lawyer at Jenner & Block who backs a broad definition.

On March 28, after a seven - year investigation, the RCMP's commercial crime section filed criminal charges against three of the firm's principals: former CEO Daniel Potter, who built the software developer into a TSE - listed firm with a market value of $ 100 million at the height of the dot - com bubble; Halifax securities lawyer Blois Colpitts, 48, a former director and the firm's legal adviser; and Bruce Elliott Clarke, a 65 - year - old former broker with National Bank Financial.

He was more careful in buying his new house, which is owned by an LLC whose registered agent is Audrey Scott, a lawyer at Cooley LLP who specializes in counseling company founders on wealth management and estate planning.

«This case is of particular importance because so many working women are now working well into their pregnancy,» says Katherine Kimpel, a lawyer at Sanford Heisler who specializes in gender and race discrimination and who filed an amicus brief in the case supporting Young.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 - Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

The resulting revolving - door culture has made it tempting for government lawyers, law firms, and corporations to take it easy on people who perpetrate boondoggles at major companies.

Mr Drake - Brockman who is National Workplace Relations Partner at Gadens Lawyers said that this exemption had already attracted widespread comment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters)- Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

Akhmetshin, a Russian - born lobbyist who since at least last year has been working with the lawyer, Veselnitskaya, to try to overturn a US law sanctioning Russians, confirmed his participation in the meeting to the Associated Press on Friday.

So Trump's tax return could tell how much income they made, offering fresh information about the financial health of his organization, according to Robert Kovacev, a lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson and former Justice Department Tax Division official who represents taxpayers in high - profile tax disputes with the IRS.

TORONTO — Purdy Crawford, a lawyer and a businessman who once headed Montreal - based Imasco Ltd., died Tuesday at age 82.

So Carl Icahn will sleep until 4 p.m. and then go to the negotiation at 6 p.m.. On the other side of the table are exhausted lawyers who have been working all day.

Prosecutors involved in a criminal investigation of Uber learned of the tactics from a former manager of the company's global intelligence unit who had documented them in a letter to an in - house lawyer at the ride - sharing firm.

Thankfully, at the time, I was a consultant for one of the «Big Four» accounting firms who could afford lawyers for the work visa process.

Now back at Breitbart, Bannon is quoted in the book as saying that if such a meeting needed to take place, Trump Jr. and Kushner should have set it up «in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people,» according to The Guardian.

Many lawyers who practice in this area have relationships with individuals at the PROs, and they may be able to leverage that relationship into a favorable license fee for you.

The surge of big transactions — with more than 20 deals worth at least $ 10 billion — has been bolstered by a desire by boards to head off disruptive technological threats and accelerate growth, according to bankers and lawyers who spoke to the Financial Times.

Telephone operators at the service center have been unable to provide meaningful assistance and in some cases have provided wrong information, leading to delays and rejections of applications, said legal specialists at the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration SeLawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Selawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Matthew Leib, a former New Yorker intern, and Lauren Ballinger, who worked at W Magazine, are represented by the same lawyers in both the Black Swan suit against Fox Entertainment and former interns at Hearst's Harpers» Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.

Dunphy acknowledged the request of Uber lawyer John Keefe, who asked if the judge were to grant the city's injunction, would he consider issuing a stay to allow Uber to continue to operate, pending an outcome at the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Lewis Cohen, a lawyer at the law firm Hogan Lovells who advises many virtual currency projects, said the document, because of the careful way it was phrased, did not prove that the Tether coins are backed by dollars.

Before coming to the Times in 2014, he was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal where he wrote about housing, public pensions and a corporate bankruptcy lawyer who moonlighted as an energy healer.

«Facebook clearly has a regime where they're tracking who's buying ads, how much they're buying, etc.,» said Greg Xethalis, a lawyer at Chapman and Cutler who specializes in financial services and emerging technologies.

Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyers do not.

This is the same Prime Minister who threatened a flurry of lawsuits if the RCMP even tried to take a peek at Mulroney bank accounts in Switzerland and who received $ 2 million from the government for his troubles, one for himself, one for his lawyer.

White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who will leave at the end of the month, was one of the few at Trump's side urging the president to refrain from personally attacking Mueller and to comply with the prosecutor's requests.

Mr. Cohen is a longtime lawyer and fixer who, in a decade at Mr. Trump's side, has served as a reliable attack dog against real or perceived threats to him.

«It actually presents a relatively clean issue for the court,» said Lawrence M. Noble, a former top lawyer at the Federal Election Commission who is now the general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group.

In the blur of news coming out of Washington, the legal maneuvers involving a pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with President Trump and the president's lawyer who paid her hush money may seem like just another reality - show - ready spectacle at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Even the U.S. government's leading antitrust enforcer — Makan Delrahim, a competition lawyer who arrived at the DOJ this summer — at first expressed an openness to the merger.