Sentences with phrase «cases than a lawyer»

It is true that often immigration consultants charge less for some cases than a lawyer would, but not always.

Law firms who advertise with a vanity number such as 1 -800-LAW-3000 or 877 - VICTIMS for their mass tort campaigns undoubtedly receive more calls and more cases than those lawyers who advertise with a regular numeric phone number.

Not exact matches

In its court filing on Monday, Waymo said it recently learned that a former Uber security analyst sent a letter to an Uber in - house lawyer more than six months ago, which contained important facts about the case.

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

That is why defense lawyers rely heavily on DNA evidence rather than eye witnesses in major cases.

My high - powered lawyers are on stand - by in case things go beyond the denial strategy, but here goes, a Pomocon exclusive: Lena Dunham: Well, the thing I mentioned yesterday is actually much further along than that.

Your whole «car sales» thought is dumb too... Romney was never a car sales men but Obama was a lawyer... talk about someone that can convince you of anything... even, like in this case, that YOU are better off than 4 years ago... but them yet perhaps YOU are!

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

Rather than go directly to lawyer in all these cases, most of them aim to work things out in a nonadversarial manner first.

Lawyers representing Joe Percoco and three executives accused of bribing him promised for days to mount a vigorous defense case, complete with documents, videos and more than 20 potential witnesses.

IBT also reported that Vance received more than $ 42,000 from lawyers at a criminal defense firm whose clients received plea deals from Vance's office that let them avoid prison, including another high profile sexual assault case.

«I have no comment on this story other than to question how a felony distribution case magically turned into a misdemeanor, as O'Connell's own lawyer admitted to the New York Post.

Lawmakers voted to have Rural Law Center handle appeals from people who can't afford their own lawyer at $ 2,250 per case, which is lower than what it's been costing the county to hire local lawyers

It features toned arms, slinky outfits, a cat fight, titillating e-mails, a military more consumed with sex than violence, a plot with more inconceivable twists than «Homeland,» and a Twitter's - delight lexicon: an «embedded» mistress named Broadwell, a biography called «All In,» an other - other woman of Middle East ancestry who was a «social liaison» to the military, a shirtless F.B.I. agent crushing on the losing - her - shirt - to - debt Tampa socialite, a pair of generals helping the socialite's twin sister with a custody case, and lawyers and crisis - management experts linked to Monica Lewinsky, John Edwards and the ABC show «Scandal...»

More than 2,000 doctors referred their pain cases to Dr. Eugene J. Gosy, and other pain specialists in the region don't have the capacity to take on the indicted doctor's 8,000 to 10,000 active patients, Gosy's lawyers said.

In Onondaga County, the average assigned case gets less than four hours of attention from a lawyer.

In 95 percent of cases, the lawyer spends less than one hour investigating the facts, said Gary Stein, who led the pro bono representation by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

Prosecutors told Wood they had hoped to retry the case earlier than June, but Wood deferred to Robert Gage, Skelos» defense lawyer, who said he was tied up on other cases.

Publicly, he represented himself as a lawyer who represented «plain, ordinary simple people» in personal injury matters and did not have any cases pertaining to state business, but prosecutors said the work was nothing more than a sham.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were no plans to review cases she prosecuted for them as decisions on disclosure lay with CPS lawyers rather than instructed barristers.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

There are few things Hollywood loves more than an underdog tale about a down - and - out lawyer trying the case of a lifetime.

This is one where the members of the U.S. Supreme Court are blurred out, where their actual disembodied voices call upon the lawyers, with the ramifications of the case on point rather than the machinations of the brash lawyers.

Nick Kroll plays a young ACLU lawyer in over his head, whose commitment to justice is at times hampered by seeing the Lovings as case precedent rather than human beings.

Lawyers familiar with the case said last week that because some 12 states have laws with provisions stronger than those of the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Law, P.L. 94 - 142, the ruling could have...

DOJ's attempt to shoehorn its regulation of the voucher program into an entirely unrelated forty - year - old case represents more than ineffective lawyering.

The department was unable to produce evidence to support their claim, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals observed, «DOJ's attempt to shoehorn its regulation of the voucher program into an entirely unrelated forty - year - old case represents more than ineffective lawyering.»

The Court's decision began, in part, «DOJ's attempt to shoehorn its regulation of the voucher program into an entirely unrelated forty - year - old case represents more than ineffective lawyering.

Good doctors earn more money than their less talented colleagues; good lawyers command higher fees than those who regularly lose their court cases, etc..

It seems that the key point in certification being denied was that the plaintiffs» lawyers failed to demonstrate that the alleged actions (essentially shady selling of marketing services) were a company - wide / directed practice, rather than isolated cases.

Judge Denise Cote of Manhattan gave final approval, which stipulates Apple will need to pay $ 400 million to more than 20 million consumers and another $ 50 million to the lawyers involved in the case.

In most cases, the collection agency may not explain your situation of owing money to anyone other than you and your lawyer..

Even if win the case in court, you will still be left wondering who ended up being better off than you, the borrower or your lawyer.

If your claim is more than your province's limit for small claims, then your case goes to Superior Court where a lawyer will likely represent you.

Having a skilled MN Bankruptcy Attorney at your side throughout the bankruptcy process can considerably reduce the amount of time and effort involved in the filing process and in many cases hiring a lawyer can be more affordable than tackling such an undertaking by yourself when you consider the time and effort you will need to invest in your bankruptcy filing on your own.

Those that do should have a lawyer look over their handiwork — a job that likely will take less than an hour and will provide peace of mind in case problems later arise.

Rather than provide any real smoking gun evidence to the case, this last citation of Oreskes only begs for a pair of really troubling questions: are the lawyers for the San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach plaintiffs committing legal profession suicidal by citing evidence which is not available to read?

Though some it his lawyers will be able to claim back, he's still likely to lose # 60,000 of his own money as a result of his brave, principled decision to fight the case rather than cave in earlier.

As to the problem of underperformance, MacEwen correctly diagnoses it as an issue that afflicts some lawyers irrespective of age — and should be treated on a case by case basis, rather than with a broad mandatory retirement policy.

«Rather than seeing the Avvo ratings for what they are — «that and $ 1.50 will get you a ride on Seattle's new South Lake Union Streetcar» — plaintiffs Browne and Wenokur want to make a federal case out of the number assigned to them because (a) it could harm their reputation, (b) it could cost them customers / fees, or (c) it could mislead the lawyer - hiring public into retaining poor lawyers or bypassing better lawyers.

Yes, those people might be more attenuated than your somewhat - real - life Facebook friends, but they still do not need you to tell them every hour that you are a lawyer who handles bankruptcy cases.

After all, we would argue that being able to read at an advanced level, or having access to a lawyer are far greater advantages than access to a computer and, if such is the case, then the status quo is much more problematic with regard to the equality of arms principle that is a building block towards access to justice than any well conceived online platform could ever be.

One of Brook's examples is an ACLU lawyer, but that case proves my point — under its Gen - X president Anthony Romero, the ACLU ramped up its starting pay for lawyers from $ 36,000 to $ 59,000, which is not competitive with firms but enough to make it possible to be an ACLU lawyer if you actually want to be an ACLU lawyer, rather than just pretending that you might want to do something socially useful but can't.

The Twamley case is being put forward as a test case for more than a dozen similar ones the lawyers are preparing to file against the company.

Less than a third of those who responded said that the lawyers in a case were effective in helping them understand the dispute and the legal issues involved.

It is truer today than ever before: we live in a global economy, so whether or not a young lawyer intends to practice international law, there is a strong likelihood that, throughout the course of her career, she will face matters of international significance or, at minimum, cases that require some knowledge of the international legal landscape.

As a result, it now provides much more than legal research support for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

Currently operating only in Maryland and the District of Columbia, the free service uses data from nearly 5 million state court records covering more than 70,000 lawyers and allows searching for 180 case types.

If you are lucky enough to have that big case walk in the door, there are plenty of lawyers who will be more than happy to help you.

In my experience, competent litigators know they have to tell their clients not to discuss the case with any other than the lawyer, the lawyer's representatives (and immediate family if appropriate) regardless of the media used.