Sentences with phrase «award after a trial»

This means that the lawyer does not get paid unless you are able to obtain compensation through a settlement or a damages award after a trial.

These obligations go far beyond mere strategic decision making in litigation, such as making offers to settle to maximize the chances and quantum of a costs award after trial, or to simply comply with mandatory or contractual mediation requirements.

Not exact matches

In 2011, a spokesman for Cuomo called Horner «a mouthpiece for the trial lawyers» after he criticized the governor's plan to cap awards in medical malpractice lawsuits.

Attorney - general Dominic Grieve argues on the Today programme that no English law allows for indefinite trial, but stressed that deportation is still the priority, after a judge awards radical cleric Abu Qatada bail:

This vaccine has been at the heart of a controversy in the US after Congress awarded the defence department $ 20 million to test it in large - scale trials in America as an immune therapy for HIV - positive people.

After a trial lasting several weeks, the father, Gary Ramona, was awarded damages of $ 500 000 against therapists Marche Isabella and Richard Rose, who administered sodium amytal to Holly.

Netflix's latest documentary, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, was often colloquially referred to as the «Hulk Hogan» documentary which led many to believe that the sole focus of the film would center on the wrestler's legal entanglement with Gawker — which ultimately led to the news portal being bankrupted and shuttered after a Florida judge awarded Hogan $ 115 million in punitive damages.

After a very lauded run on the festival circuit (From Cannes to Sitges, both of which it won major awards), Julia Ducournau's flesh - eating slash coming - of - age slash trial - by - fire Raw gets a red band trailer.

Yesterday (July 16, 2015), after a seven day trial, Superior Court Judge Andrew P. Banks issued his decision awarding the parents and children who wished to convert their failing public school Palm Lane Elementary into a public charter school under the Parent Empowerment Act (also known as the Parent Trigger Law).

«(1) TIME FOR FILING DEMAND - Within 30 days after the filing of an arbitration award with a district court under subsection (a), any party may file a written demand for a trial de novo in the district court.

A damage award can be agreed upon after a negotiated settlement — among the parties, their insurance companies, and their attorneys, for example — or may be ordered by a judge or jury following a court trial.

After the numerous amounts of trials that Kojima has recently faced within the games industry due to the alleged actions of Konami, including recently refusing him entrance to the Games Awards to accept the award for Metal Gear Solid V, you'd believe he'd be wanting to steer clear from the games industry for some time.

A test and demonstration facility operated by South Africa's main utility Eskom will trial Primus Power's flow batteries, after a local developer was awarded a grant for the project by the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).

According to an affidavit filed by one of the jurors after the trial, the jury unanimously agreed that the plaintiff, Martha Sienkowski, should be awarded $ 336,300 but «we had trouble trying to figure out the verdict form, and sent a note through the bailiff to that effect seeking further instructions.»

Finally, in November 2012, after two trials totalling 15 days, one appeal and several interlocutory applications, I was awarded # 55,000 damages by Mrs Justice Swift arising from sexual assaults by a Jesuit priest in the 1970s.

Stockholders who own company at time of payout knew this was likely outcome at time of purchase of stock or held on stock even after fraud with exposed knowing they would be awarded some damages in future but in reality the only real winners are the trial lawyers but who

The trial judge, albeit observing the lack of time records but based upon 33 years of experience as a practitioner, finally awarded $ 180,880 to plaintiff after a reconsideration motion from the defense — this included a 1.25 multiplier to the lodestar found reasonable by the lower court.

Where the damages awarded after a long trial are modest, it is possible for the adverse cost award to exceed the amount of damages, meaning that the plaintiff's personal assets are at risk.

The jury, after a seven - day trial, awarded $ 5,020,000 for the value of the decedent's life, his pain and suffering, and funeral costs.

the order after trial awarded the claimant $ 193,522.16, and subsequently ordered that the claimant was entitled to double costs on tariff items 34, 35 and 36.

After a four week trial, the jury found for the defendant on all fraud claims and awarded $ 150,000 on the contract claim, an amount which was significantly less than the offer of judgment made by Lightfoot two months before trial.

The trial court awarded $ 91,635 to buyers, but found nothing was owed after offsetting the $ 275,000 settlement with dual agent.

After a four - day jury trial, the two men were awarded $ 42,000 in unpaid back wages and damages.

The modification of spousal maintenance, however, may depend upon whether alimony was awarded by a judge after a trial or was based upon an agreement of the parties.

Alternatively, we have seen spousal maintenance awards granted by judges after trial only because the person ordered to pay spousal maintenance was poorly represented and the judge did not hear relevant evidence which, if presented, may have resulted in an entirely different outcome.

After a trial, the jury awarded our clients a verdict of $ 23.2 million.

In the case, Riley v. Ford Motor Company, the court determined that the trial judge properly adjusted the damages award in favor of the plaintiff after the jury returned a shockingly inadequate amount.

The parents of the victim sued for wrongful death, and after a lengthy trial the jury awarded a $ 26 million verdict for the plaintiffs.

After a damages - only trial, the company was awarded more than $ 9 million for the loss of the value of the start - up business.

After a 39 - day trial, a jury awarded $ 360,000 in total damages, with $ 130,000 against District.

As a consequence for failing to satisfy one or both of these obligations, the court is required to consider the insurer's failure when awarding costs after trial.

After Caminiti rejected a $ 60,000 settlement offer and a $ 152,000 arbitration award, the case went to trial on March 1 before Judge Isabel Stark.

After a four week trial, the jury awarded $ 150,000 on the contract claim and found for Orkin on all fraud claims.

How does this rule apply to an award of spousal maintenance that was not agreed up by the parties in a settlement agreement but, instead, was ordered by the court after a contested trial?

After a one - week trial, a federal jury awarded $ 4.5 million to Eckerberg for severe injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident.

After a two and a half month trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Computers Plus and awarded it damages for the full value of its business.

The ICBC claimant had sought an award of damages exceeding $ 2 million and after 33 days in trial almost all of... Continue reading →

The numerous honors and awards he has received throughout his career are just a sampling of the reasons why Eglet Prince's Senior Partner, Robert Eglet, is the most respected and sought after trial attorney in Nevada.

Tenant requested attorney's fees based on a $ 150,000 lodestar but the trial judge awarded only $ 10,000 after observing that there were questionable billing practices by the prevailing party's attorneys, only about $ 25,000 in claims were involved on both sides, tenant was unsuccessful on some claims, and there were contentious skirmishes of an unreasonable nature.

It may not apply in the present case where the parties did not settle; instead, the judge awarded spousal maintenance after a trial.

The judge, after a four - day trial at which the defendant alleged fraud and dishonesty and failed on both, awarded # 1,000, # 400 and # 600 respectively.

After a week - long trial, the jury awarded GreenLeaf $ 2.3 million.

After a four - day bench trial, the Circuit Court awarded the prevailing party $ 0 in attorney's fees in response to our argument that the prevailing party had been overcompensated by the original judgment.

After a day - long trial involving numerous medical witnesses and social workers, the Juneau County Circuit Court (Judge Roemer) ruled in favor of Curran Law Office's client and awarded permanent guardianship of a minor child.

The Court has awarded $ 411,158.00 after a 2 week trial in Vancouver to a claimant involved in a motor vehicle accident while... Continue reading →

After graduation from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he tried his first case as a student with the local Public Defender, he was awarded a judicial clerkship with a state trial court judge.

After trial the Jury awarded damages including $ 32,000 for cost of future medical care.

In my view, such a reading of s. 95 is not harmonious with s. 98 of the Act, as amended, which seeks to award «damages for the income loss suffered after the accident and before the first day of trial of any action brought in relation to it, [of] not more than the net income loss that the person suffered in that period as a result of the accident».

[1] After a thirteen day jury trial on a pedestrian motor vehicle accident case, the plaintiff was awarded damages totalling $ 481,000.

[1] On March 1, 2013, after an eleven day trial, I awarded judgment to the plaintiff for $ 16,042,669 plus pre-judgment interest and costs.