Sentences with phrase «case than an attorney»

A solo lawyer could handle fewer cases than an attorney working for a big law firm, which made it hard to generate revenue and stay in business.

A lawyer who has assisted in the claim from the start or the initial appeal may have more knowledge of your case than an attorney coming in at the last minute trying to help.

Not exact matches

He also spent more than three years as a federal prosecutor at the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, where he focused on insider trading and other financial fraud cases.

Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.

The attorney representing the plaintiffs in this case, Bruce Afran, estimates that Princeton's tax bill should be around $ 40 million, which is 264 % more than what it currently pays.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Small claims court cases are much cheaper than superior court cases for both the plaintiff (the person doing the suing) and the defendant (the person being sued) because the parties are not allowed to have any attorneys represent them and other rules that simplify the lawsuit process, making the whole thing much cheaper, faster, and easier.

Wives were far more likely than husbands to report attempting to enlist the help of outsiders, from divorce attorneys to in - laws, marriage counselors, and psychologists (and in one case a bankruptcy attorney), to solve marital problems.

You can of course, but it could end up costing you a great deal more money than if you hired a good attorney and you are not likely to win if it is a complicated case.

Agnifilo has sought to argue that former town attorney Leonard Genova was much closer to the Singh case than Venditto.

Governor Cuomo is in the unique position of having served as the State's Attorney General when the tragedy happened and is more than familiar with the case.

The Kings County District Attorney's office is one of the nation's busiest prosecutor offices and handles more than 80,000 cases a year.

Menendez's attorney Abbe D. Lowell said in a statement that after Wednesday's court decision, «the decision of the DOJ to retry the case makes even less sense than it did last week and we hope it would be reconsidered.»

Schneiderman said Abelove rushed the shooting case in front a county grand jury that cleared the officer less than a week after the shooting — and after the attorney general's office said they wanted to review the case.

Maziarz's plea to a lesser charge follows the expenditure of more than $ 400,000 in his leftover campaign funds on attorneys and accountants associated with the case.

Our secretary to attorney ratio is competitive with, and in most cases significantly less, than that found in similarly sized law firms.

Silver received millions in referral fees from Weitz & Luxemberg, and his attorneys tried to suggest he did more than refer mesothelioma cases from Taub.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

Russell, who was arrested, believed his fight for freedom of speech was bolstered when Albany County District Attorney David Soares refused to prosecute more than 100 cases.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove presented the case to a grand jury in less than a week, and the officer was cleared.

The governor said federal laws provide prosecutors with more tools to handle corruption cases than do state laws, and district attorneys often turn their cases over to the feds.

Kelly Kramer, a white - collar criminal defense attorney at the Mayer Brown firm, said the Supreme Court has scaled back the «honest services fraud» statute, as it is called, in deciding the case of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling, limiting such prosecutions to cases involving bribes or kickbacks, rather than mere self - dealing.

As the Donald «Dontay» Ivy case hangs in limbo, Albany County DA David Soares appears to have more options than ceding power to New York's attorney general — if that's what he wants to do.

«This case was nothing more than a media event, set up by the District Attorney who acted with reckless abandon.

According to Kindlon, more than $ 167,000 in taxpayer money had already been spent since February on outside attorneys hired to defend Soares in the civil lawsuit filed as a result of the DA's high - profile Florida steroids case.

As released by the attorney general's civil rights bureau, the policies outline the limits local law enforcement can participate in federal immigrant enforcement efforts, including refusing to enact non-judicial warrants in civil cases, denying requests by federal officials in holding people longer than 48 hours and limits on the access Immigration and Customs Enforcement or border protection officers can have with those currently in custoy.

Attorneys on both sides of the political corruption case will deliver closing arguments — each of which are expected to last more than an hour — starting at 9 a.m..

The Times Union's story noted Percoco offered to provide draft statements to the commissioners he contacted, including several district attorneys, and in some cases encouraged them to communicate with him through personal email accounts rather than using their government email.

Earlier this year, Cuomo signed another order that allowed Schneiderman's office to expand that investigation and examine Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove's controversial handling of the 2016 shooting, including his decision to rush the case before a grand jury that cleared the sergeant, Randall French, less than a week after the shooting.

Wells said he served as an assistant criminal district attorney in Fort Worth, Texas, where he successfully prosecuted more than 50 cases — including cases involving murder, kidnapping and rape.

As attorney general, when he was the one investigating crimes rather than running the executive branch, he sought increased powers for public corruption, pressing legislators to pass a bill granting his office broad jurisdiction and subpoena powers to pursue such cases.

The order empowers the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to conduct a public corruption probe of Abelove's conduct, including his decision to present the case to a grand jury that cleared the officer of wrongdoing less than a week after the shooting.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said the marijuana prosecutions will halt starting Aug. 1, other than in cases where there is a clear public safety concern, which, he predicts, will reduce the yearly marijuana prosecutions in Manhattan from 5,000 to 200.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

Since he first ran for office in 2014, Sen. Marc Panepinto, a Democrat, received more than $ 74,000 from at least a dozen attorneys or law firms that had active cases before his wife - state Supreme Court Judge Catherine Nugent Panepinto - according to campaign filings.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, D - Buffalo, received more than $ 74,000 from at least a dozen attorneys or law firms that had active cases before his wife - state Supreme Court Judge Catherine Nugent Panepinto.

David's letter noted the governor's appointments represent «far less than a majority» and that the panel negotiated the deal with Nicolla and settled on a price well below market value, saving taxpayers more than $ 500,000 — a point that was also made to the newspaper by E. Stewart Jones, an attorney who represents Nicolla in his unrelated criminal case involving SUNY Poly.

Out of 20 cases against correction officers opened by the Bronx district attorney's office in the last five years, only four resulted in prison sentences, three of them for less than two years.

Save Gansevoort's attorney, Michael Hiller, specializes in landmarks preservation cases and has said that his caseload more than tripled under Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.

Less than a week after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, to temporarily authorize him to investigate and prosecute future cases where a police officer's actions lead to the death of an unarmed civilian.

As the Donald «Dontay» Ivy case hangs in limbo, Albany County District Attorney David Soares appears to have more options than ceding power to New York's attorney general — if that's what he wantAttorney David Soares appears to have more options than ceding power to New York's attorney general — if that's what he wantattorney general — if that's what he wants to do.

A high - powered attorney returns to her rural hometown to get a major pharma client off the hook in a case involving some sick high school girls, but discovers there's much more than meets the eye.

A couple of abolitionists (Morgan Freeman and Stellan Skarsgård) believing the slaves are entitled to their freedom team up with Roger S. Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), an unrefined young attorney approaching the case from a legal rather than moral standpoint.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt, whose office represented the state in the case, said that's less than 1 percent of annual school funding and not enough to justify closing the schools.

Attorney General George Jepsen, with the support of Governor Malloy, moved to destroy the most important school funding case in more than half a century, despite Malloy's earlier promises to support the case.

All told, the case and bargaining have cost the district more than $ 418,000 in legal bills to date, district officials said, not including $ 550,000 in attorney's fees paid to the plaintiffs.

During the course of the litigation, the school board paid for three sets of attorneys (for Martin; for the LSC; and for the Board of Education) in a case that cost more than a quarter of a million dollars.

He has been retained by numerous public offices, courts and private attorneys as a forensic psychiatrist and has consulted in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases in both state and federal jurisdictions.