Sentences with phrase «better places for lawyers»

«I think he was probably considered one of the best places for lawyers to go on both sides.»

So a much better place for lawyers to spend time is with a detailed analysis of the acquired companies» contracts to facilitate post-M & A integration.

Not exact matches

Although human - rights lawyers have been justified in criticizing gacaca courts for their low standards of due process and selectivity in prosecution, others have shown that acknowledgment, repentance, and forgiveness have taken place widely in the hearings, in good part due to the influence of churches.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

Even the Jewish guy at the passport place has to spell it out when he apologetically acknowledges that Jewish lawyers have better contacts than black lawyers «for systemic reasons.»

«Violent death does not make for good housekeeping,» Stern writes, «nor do lawyers, pathologists, tourists, and guides, but it was clear that this apartment had never been an idyllic place to either live or die.»

Florida school districts are placing their self - interest over what's best for students while using our tax dollars to create a lucrative payday for lawyers.

Based on this interview, it seems that Dorsey & Whitney is a great place to work for women, as well as all lawyers who want an outside life.

Because judges differ from place to place, a lawyer who has practiced in your area for a long time will better know how to adjust their arguments to appeal to a particular judge.

In other words, the traditional law firm operating under the traditional law firm business model is an inhospitable place for many, many lawyers — a place where their success depends not upon their skills as a lawyer but upon their abilities in areas in which they have no training, interest or aptitude, as well as upon their gender and the color of their skin; a place that requires them to sacrifice their personal lives; a place where they do not feel valued or fulfilled in their work; a place and where opportunities are denied to them and only a very small number can reach positions of success.

During her term as President, the SC Bar Young Lawyers Division was awarded an unprecedented 1st place in each of the ABA Awards of Achievement categories as well as a national award for Service to the Bar for their Family Events.

For his IP litigation work, he has been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers or Texas Rising Stars each year since 2010, as well as earning a place in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

If you're self - represented you should be able to pick up the playbook and read the first couple chapters and then jump to wherever you are in your process and have a road map of what to expect, what your options are, different plays you can make in court, what places you can settle, what you can expect in settling, resources for where to find information on what's likely to happen in your case, the best case scenarios and worst case scenarios that any experienced state bar court defense lawyer is going to be able to construct.

Places like CANLII (paid for by lawyers, btw) do a pretty good job of making the «law» accessible to the public to allow for a «basic understanding» — and to the extent they do not, obtaining general legal advice is not a massive burden for most Canadians.

There was a fierce battle for first place between The Clash's «I Fought the Law» and Warren Zevon's «Lawyers, Guns and Money,» writes ATL's Kashmir Hill, but The Clash came out on top — as well they should.

It also calls for soliciting input from attorneys and staff on a regular basis and implementing the best ideas to improve client satisfaction and make the firm a better place to work; focusing on internal recognition of accomplishments of attorneys and staff; scheduling planned social activities for lawyers and staff throughout the year, i.e., Holiday party, firm picnic, birthdays and anniversaries, etc..

While the internet isn't always the best source for unbiased information about lawyers, it is a great place to start compiling information.

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

In the past, Florida was known among hotel owners, supermarket chains, and national stores (as well as insurance defense counsel and personal injury lawyers) as a great place for injury victims to file lawsuits based upon slip and fall injuries.

Calder's brief was to help redefine Setfords» brand and position it as a more attractive place to work for lawyers who are seeking a better work / life balance and greater earning potential through the firm's fee - share scheme.

They may not have taken the most direct route to law, but for a band of lawyers who have made a career change their previous jobs have placed them in good stead

The good news is is that there are so many different, simple tools you can put in place to make a lot of this stuff a lot less cumbersome for both the client and the lawyer.

The takeaway for employers is: if you wish to place your new employees on probation, draft an employment agreement (or better yet, retain an employment lawyer to draft one for you) that specifically sets out what is meant by that probationary period.

Aside from the fact that attorneys make enough money to pay their bills, they also make good clients because many lawyers are attracted to legal work in the first place in order to provide «justice for all.»

In the meantime, a good place to dip your toes into this stuff is via Stanford's new Program for Legal Tech + Design, started by ABA Journal Legal Rebel Margaret Hagan and Stanford research fellow, lawyer and engineer Ron Dolin.

Non-lawyer owners, looking for good returns on their investments, will place ever more pressure on lawyers to generate the cash to fund the returns as proven by economic fact, theory, common sense, and history, but you are not swayed.

Lawyers have a tendency to stack files, papers, books, and cups of coffee all over their desk — leaving lots of good hiding places for a smartphone.

Since we neglected to recognize Austlii's first place showing in the Australia and New Zealand Internet Best Practice Awards, sponsored by auDA and InternetNZ, the Internet domain name administrators for Australia and New Zealand, we take this opportunity to stress how much Canadian lawyers and information users appreciate the great and pioneering work that Graham, Andrew Mowbray and the rest of the team are doing for all of us.

Or doing anything that teaches them about how to be a lawyer rather than doing administrative work for journals that don't appear to be that well put together in the first place...»

However, while there will always be a need and a place for lawyers who do high - powered, high - prestige work at premium rates, it is clear that much of what lawyers now do can be done less expensively by other well - trained individuals and specialized companies.

That is the new market in which legal firms find themselves; you are no longer competing only with the Magic Circle firms to attract the crème de la crème, you're up against Tesco, the Government Legal Service, anyone who has a good place for an in - house lawyer — and when talking to students or school children you're up against every other potential discipline into which they might throw themselves.

It has argued that it is well placed for an advisory role due to its expert technical committees and specialist lawyers, which could help «advise on critical legal issues».

So while you and I (and USNWR, which labels NCCU as «Tier 4») may never have heard of NCCU, Newton concludes that, «if you want to be a lawyer, graduate from a good quality law school, with practice - ready skills, with no or little debt, and pass the bar the first time out of the gate, then this might well be the place for you.»

And then the other social media platforms I think are a good and easy place for lawyers to start, but it does depend on who your clientele is.

For legal marketers, there are helpful sections explaining the Best Lawyers methodology, and editorial timelines for both the Best Lawyers peer review process and the US News «Best Law Firms» survey, as well as a place where you can nominate attorneys for consideratiFor legal marketers, there are helpful sections explaining the Best Lawyers methodology, and editorial timelines for both the Best Lawyers peer review process and the US News «Best Law Firms» survey, as well as a place where you can nominate attorneys for consideratifor both the Best Lawyers peer review process and the US News «Best Law Firms» survey, as well as a place where you can nominate attorneys for consideratifor consideration.

Although Jim believes the methods taught by Gerry and the College provide essential tools necessary to be an effective trial lawyer, other programs and training programs provide other «arrows» to place in Jim's quiver to use to obtain the best chance at a positive outcome for his client's cases.

The lawyer should have this in place as well as educational handouts and checklists that will guide the client through the process of unbundling as well as through what they will be responsible for completing on their own.

The Wolters Kluwer team used their experience to offer best practices and point out potential challenges that we had not originally identified; for example, what processes to put in place should a lawyer leave VEON.

A good place to start finding out about the laws that determine whether you may be entitled to compensation for this type of accident, is by talking to a reputable rental car accident lawyer.

The National Association of Consumer Advocates, at naca.net, is a good place to look for a credit report lawyer.

While all of these approaches have a place on the continuum of access to justice, they can never come close to fully substituting for the legal services good lawyers provide.

Most firms that place a premium on revenue from partners» personal production find that partners tend to hold their client relationships too close to their vests; they frequently hoard client work rather than spread it around to other partners — because the former wants to receive full credit; partners perform work that could be performed by associates because the former wants to receive full credit; partners do billable work when their higher and better use for the law firm is to generate additional business from existing and potential clients; and lawyers may perform work outside of their principle areas of expertise that others in the firm could perform more effectively and efficiently.

So for the law society's point of view, that's a great point to step in if there's going to be harm befalling the public from a lawyer falling off the rail for one reason or another, and it's a good measure to put in place.

We are regularly instructed by clients for advice on fraud prevention — our lawyers deal with cases where fraud has occurred we are well placed to advise clients how to stop it, minimise the risk, spot the potential warning signs of fraud and make a potential fraudster think twice.

Even if you were trained as a lawyer, if you are in pain or debilitated because of something a medical practitioner's negligence caused, you are likely not in a good place to try to fight for your rights.

These free resources are likely the single best place on the Internet to learn how the best trial lawyers prepare for and win at trial.

The roles responsibilities include (but are not limited to) providing first line support to the practice group, ensuring that the strategy, plans and structures are in place and aligned to the firm's strategic goals; supporting the annual budgeting and forecasting activities within the practice group; providing in - depth analytical support on financial performance at practice group and team level; be the business advisor to the practice group and helping the group effectively manage their financial performance; providing training for groups of partners and lawyers, recommending improvements in efficiencies and practices; working with partners, heads of department and others to encourage best practice in relation to accounting and profitability, pricing and matter management; being the finance representative, working closely and collaboratively with business services teams; and developing a best practice approach within the practice and improving the efficiency of processes.

I started Legal Ease Consulting, Inc. to prevent good lawyers from leaving the profession and to help lawyers rediscover their reasons for going into law in the first place.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

Even before the ABA Opinion was issued, we at Zola knew that lawyers need to have the best technological security measures in place to uphold the duties they owe their clients, to ensure continued client confidence, and to protect their reputation for always keeping their clients» best interests in mind.