Sentences with phrase «been lawyers working»

So far it looks like this has mostly been lawyers working as public defenders.

Her first husband, Frank Dawson, was a lawyer working for the World Bank, and in 1969 he was posted to Venezuela.

Of course MS lawyers worked hard to whitewash the text, but are there any precedents / legal line of action which may be taken?

They are lawyers we work beside and against every day, and it is a great honor for our attorneys to receive.»

Ian D. Scott is a lawyer working in the areas of criminal and administrative law.

In terms of choosing external counsel, Chang said in some cases they are lawyers he worked with at two previous law firms he was employed at, while for other matters he sticks with a corporate - commercial lawyer who left a large firm and is now at a boutique offering «Bay Street services at less than Bay Street rates.»

Before I was a lawyer I worked in capital markets for a US bank.

Paralegals, case managers and investigators VERY OFTEN perform what should be lawyer work in large Orlando car accident law firms.

But his outbursts and temper continued; they were not directed just at me, but for the next year I was the lawyer working most closely with him, and so internally to our firm I bore the brunt of it.

The lawyer is paid for by the carrier, but they're your lawyer working for you to defend against that claim.

One is a lawyer working for the government and the other two are gainfully employed.

Not exact matches

«These three engineers are seeking to ensure that Uber pays women and people of color equally for the hard work they've done — and will continue to do — to help make Uber successful,» said lawyer Jahan Sagafi of Outten & Golden which is representing the plaintiffs.

As immigration lawyer Evan Green asked the Globe and Mail, ``... how do you prove for someone with [little] work experience that there is no Canadian to do the job?»

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«The fact that you have a bankruptcy where the only asset that it owns goes up by 5,000 %, that's pretty unprecedented,» says Daniel Kelman, a lawyer and Mt. Gox creditor who spent a year in Tokyo working on the case.

It's certainly odd work relative to the building's other tenants: government workers, multiple floors of lawyers, and other professionals.

One Bay Street lawyer who specializes in corporate finance and requested anonymity, says that during transaction closings, it's common for the legal team to work 36 hours straight.

If they had a lawyer working for them, at least the lawyer could have said (before they signed the mortgage) maybe this isn't right.»

This was the total of her billable hours for an entire year when she worked as a lawyer.

«I spent all this time hiring lawyers and half of them worked out and half didn't,» she says, «I thought, «there must be a better way to think about this.

«Everybody worries about making mistakes,» he says, «but when it comes to choosing between working 24 hours [and risking] having your mental faculties function at less efficiency, and spreading that out over more time, most lawyers would tell you the former is more likely to result in fewer mistakes.

The reason is that whether the lawyer works for a business or runs one, questions arise regarding the intersection of, and perhaps conflict between, legal ethics on one hand and business ethics on the other.

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.

A lot of people think they're supposed to be a doctor or a lawyer as their parents told them to be, and it doesn't work for them.

People who are teachers might tutor, [and] lawyers who become moms maybe can do legal work on the side,» AOL co-founder Steve Case told CNBC's «On the Money.»

Big law firms are obvious candidates for the technology, but so are in - house lawyers working for large corporations and governments.

Much of it, of course, pertains to educational gifts, but behind his formula for philanthropy — which he's worked out with the help of Gowlings lawyer Robert Finlayson over the past 15 years — are some general principles that could apply to any gift.

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.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

«What you often see is privacy used as a last resort when none of your arguments are working,» says Mark Hayes, a privacy lawyer in Toronto.

Trump, who has branded the probe a «witch hunt,» is growing increasingly frustrated as Mueller's work continues, and the president's lawyers have signaled that they expect the investigation to wrap up quickly.

Though Trump said Cohen's legal work for him was minimal, he said the lawyer «represents me on some things,» mentioning «this crazy Stormy Daniels deal.»

When Chicago lawyer Marvin Bower rescued what was then an accounting and engineering firm from near bankruptcy in 1939 and proceeded to invent the discipline of management consulting, he enshrined a set of commandments that guides McKinsey to this day: put client interest above firm profits; speak truth to power no matter the consequences; our work must have real impact on the client's business; take client secrets to the grave.

Currently they release information on the number of women in their total workforce and in their leadership roles and publish more detailed information about gender balance internally, but are still working with lawyers to navigate the stricter data collection and protection measures in Germany, where the company is based, and other countries where their employees work, SAP's chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenberg told Fortune.

Oliver, a lawyer with an MBA who worked in the private sector finance community before entering politics, was most recently natural resources minister before taking over from Flaherty in March.

«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.

«Mueller recognizes that Russian organized crime and sophisticated financial transactions involving them are going to be right at the center and Page is definitely a leading expert there,» Scott Horton, a US lawyer with experience working in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, told The Guardian.

Those who think the SEC will approve the ETF point to the skillful work carried out by the Winklevoss lawyers, and to the fact that bitcoin is far more mainstream than it was even two years ago.

The officials were FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who often worked with McCabe, and then - FBI spokesman Michael Kortan.

It was wonderful to be his lawyer,» said Lesperance, a former Canadian border officer who has worked as an immigration lawyer for more than 25 years.

«Sometimes issues involving non-bank dealers overlap with end - user issues and in those cases, they can be working with the banks and against the banks at the same time,» the lawyer said.

Corporations just want to make sure their trading costs are contained and are indifferent about who is on their side, said one lawyer in Washington who has worked on derivatives reform.

The confusing stance comes as the Federal Communications Commission under new chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon (vz) lawyer appointed by President Trump to head the agency, is working to roll back the rules.

In certain occupations - lawyers come to mind - the expectation may even be to work 80 or 90 hours during particularly busy periods.

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.

You may also want to check in with your local chamber of commerce to see what names have been reserved, if not yet trademarked, or work with a lawyer.

It was a real treat for me as a junior lawyer to work with him and learn from him,» Smith said in an interview.

You're working as a lawyer for the first time since graduating law school, right?

«I selfishly wanted to spend more time working on product, which is my passion, and I found myself increasingly spending time talking to lawyers and accountants.

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.