Sentences with phrase «because litigation work»

Not exact matches

Contract and property law are useful far beyond their role in litigation because they allow people of good faith to coordinate their activities by following pre-announced legal forms rather than having to work out their plans (even in good faith) on a case - by - case basis.

These experiments with non-litigation documents lead me to think that the CARA AI - assisted research tool works better with litigation documents because they contain more precise discussions of facts and issues.

The service / marketing model for lower priority clients because of lower - revenue combined with difficult clients re payment, other reasons, wouldn't necessarily work for all types of legal practice areas or evolving areas of litigation where law is being shaped / not defined well yet because of new technological applications, etc..

Among other things, outside counsel can retain experts and shield portions of the investigation from discovery in litigation because of the attorney - client privilege or the work - product doctrine.

Develop a Markman Hearing Presentation: Because patent litigation has always led the industry in adopting the latest litigation consulting techniques, because patent case filings are rising at record rates and because one of our senior litigation consultants is a successful patent litigator, about half of our work continues to involve patent litiBecause patent litigation has always led the industry in adopting the latest litigation consulting techniques, because patent case filings are rising at record rates and because one of our senior litigation consultants is a successful patent litigator, about half of our work continues to involve patent litibecause patent case filings are rising at record rates and because one of our senior litigation consultants is a successful patent litigator, about half of our work continues to involve patent litibecause one of our senior litigation consultants is a successful patent litigator, about half of our work continues to involve patent litigation.

For the first two years, I had a mailbox at the UPS store and worked from my dining room table, and did strictly transactional work because I was too afraid to do litigation, business contracts, copyrights, trademarks.

And that is a really good piece of advice, because I do litigation work but I'm not a rambo litigator.

We focus on building key relationships with law firms and managing legal affairs as best we can and the type of legal work that Navistar Canada is involved in doesn't really warrant a large department because it's defendant - side litigation on the product liability side and some corporate - driven transactions, be it tax or finance, that are not routine.

The media are partly to blame because, whenever they rant on about the high cost of lawyers, the only examples they ever give are the court / litigation based examples (barrister work).

Because «whistleblower» lawyers work on a contingency basis, Bentham IMF's program «is not funding the cost of litigation but is primarily aimed at providing whistleblowers with cash while they wait for their claim to wind through court.»

They include: (1) regulatory law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while health insurance companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green» law, i.e., representing companies that deal in green technology, whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.

It might work if you were playing a lawyer on TV... but that's only because your opponent (and the judge, if it's a litigation file) would be actors, too.

«Ediscovery is a growing issue in Canada but we haven't seen as much of it as they have in the US because we don't have that extent of large complex litigation,» said Ontario Justice Colin Campbell, Chair of the Sedona Canada Working Group.

Better to increase the attractiveness of legal services by enabling lawyers to provide related services accompanying their legal services, e.g., family law lawyers providing financial planning advice, and law firms providing accounting and tax advisory work, and litigation lawyers working with experts who improve and maintain their clients» electronic records management systems, because records are the most frequently used kind of evidence and are completely dependent on their records management systems for everything, particularly their «integrity» （ which is what the electronic records provisions of the Evidence Acts require be proved for admissibility; e.g., section 31.2 （ 1 ） （ a ） of the Canada Evidence Act - see: Ken Chasse, «Electronic Records as Evidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free download ） 。

Dentons» focus is on commercial litigation — including regulatory issues, corporate and commercial work because «that is central to what our clients do», and banking and finance.

Because all litigation cases follow the same basic path, the work can become monotonous and repetitious.

Some individuals prefer commercial or transactional work over litigation because it is less conflict - ridden.

Litigation Financing: Relationships with litigation financing firms allow us to work at a reduced rate since they can be a frequent source of trial consulting work for A2L and because we refer them clients Litigation Financing: Relationships with litigation financing firms allow us to work at a reduced rate since they can be a frequent source of trial consulting work for A2L and because we refer them clients litigation financing firms allow us to work at a reduced rate since they can be a frequent source of trial consulting work for A2L and because we refer them clients regularly.

Corporate legal departments are no longer excused from the metrics used across the rest of the company just because their work falls under «legal» (except perhaps for high - stakes bet - the - company litigation).

As is often the case with public decision - making, the unintended consequences of encouraging «no win, no fee» litigation have been a disaster and we can now see that one of the results is the diminution of the supply of competent lawyers who are unable to work because the businesses they had been employed in have had to stop doing personal injury litigation.

employment because of the variety of work, the nature of the litigation and the opportunity to experience both contentious and non-contentious work.

So we're getting some traction on teaching electronic discovery, but frankly not as much as we should have because e-discovery really has become the guts of the civil litigation process and if it's done right, everything works well.

The work - product doctrine is both narrower than the attorney - client privilege, because it relates only to litigation preparation, and broader, because it covers the attorney's work product and not just his or her communications with a client.

But the move away from hourly rates for litigation specifically is newer and perhaps even more significant because trial work has always been viewed as the last vestige of the hourly billing model.

And because we thoroughly understand the complex ownership, commercialization and enforcement issues faced by these organizations, it's no surprise that leading academic and research institutions such as the University of California, The Scripps Research Institute, the University of Washington, Vanderbilt University, Harvard, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory rely on Fenwick for a full range of IP and technology transaction services, including strategic IP counseling, patent prosecution, patent infringement and enforcement counseling, dispute resolution, IP litigation, licensing and other transaction work.

Because the defining feature of collaborative practice is that attorneys can not engage in litigation tactics, they are especially suited to help a couple come to a prenuptial agreement that works for them.

While hiring a fully staffed Collaborative team may be expensive, the process may be much less expensive than litigation because the team works together to get to the root of underlying emotional and mental health issues hindering resolution.