Sentences with phrase «clients about lawyers»

We hear stories from our clients about lawyers who engage in discovery for discovery's sake and then panic if a matter is not resolved before trial.

A lawyer shall not make a false or misleading communication to a potential client about the lawyer or the lawyer's services.

Whatever means are used by a lawyer to communicate with a potential client about the lawyer or the lawyer's services to make known a lawyer's services, statements about them must be truthful.

Providing more information to clients about lawyer quality is necessary, but not all information is equally useful.

Not exact matches

«Producers should be excited that about what this means for expanding their business,» says Trina Fraser, a lawyer with law firm BrazeauSeller who has counseled clients applying to be medical marijuana licenced producers.

Such price shifts have led lawyers to suggest that clients not worry about fixing a valuation.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

Law firms advance expenses for clients as a matter of course, so there's nothing inherently improper about a lawyer covering a particular payment and then being reimbursed for it.

The lawyers told the court they couldn't provide more details about their specific reasons because that could breach the privileged attorney - client relationship.

MH: Like lawyers defending a guilty client, the Chicago Boys only look for good things to say about their pet project.

It is messy and convoluted and falls apart when you spell it out: Trump didn't know about the specifics, but he did repay because he did know about the general arrangement, but he didn't really know because it's just the sort of things lawyers do for clients and Mr. Cohen didn't want to burden him since he's a busy man.

The Fox News host doesn't get all the fuss about him being Trump lawyer Cohen's mysterious third client.

One question was seldom in the foreground: What had become of the old counsellors» dictum that «about half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would - be clients that they are damned fools and should stop»?

Akin to a lawyer giving all of her clients the best defence she can regardless of what she personally believes about their innocence, a religious scientist can also honestly follow the evidence where it leads regardless of where they want it to lead (with the exception of creationist scientists, who never appear to be be honestly following the evidence).

I'm somehow not feeling too regretful about missing my morning lecture about client / lawyer retainers.

Ron Jenkins, a lawyer for Gateway, said his client notified federal regulators and state and city officials about the ammonia leak when it occurred.

Wong's lawyer pled to the community board that his client, who owns a real estate company, is «in the noodle business... doesn't know much about real estate.»

Steve Coffey, a lawyer for Aiello, said the decision to put his client on the stand could rest with whether «the door is opened» by the judge to permit prosecutors to ask Aiello about Buffalo Billion - related issues.

NEW YORK — Defense lawyers in the trial of Joseph Percoco and three business executives told a judge Wednesday they plan on bringing a full slate of witnesses in an effort to clear their clients — in a case that has brought scrutiny about the inner workings of the Cuomo administration.

Boiled down to the basics, this says that discussions between a lawyer and client about a future crime or fraud are not privileged.

«But, OK, so the lawyer broke the law, what about all the stuff the client told the lawyer that was privileged?»

Howe's lawyer, Richard Morvillo, has said he will not comment on news stories about Howe's work for clients while the investigation is under way.

A spokeswoman for COR declined to comment about Howe, but LPCiminelli's lawyer Daniel Oliverio denied Howe had anything to do with his client's contributions.

On his part lawyer for the accused Justice Sai complained about the behavior of the Attorney General and the state security apparatus whom according to him have prevented him from seeing his client since his arrest till today when the case was called.

Heastie provided few details about new client disclosure requirements for lawyer - legislators, but two sources briefed on the plan told Capital that legislators would be able to seek exceptions from the state's Office of Court Administration.

He met with members of the state Senate about the idea, and very quickly opted for new requirements that lawyer - legislators disclose their clients — subject to exceptions.

Halloran's lawyer, Vinoo Verghese, said his client had been in «purgatory» since he was accused in April of last year and was concerned about the delay and cost of a retrial.

Hoppy's lawyer, prominent Manhattan divorce attorney Bernard Clair — speaking generally and not specifically about the Frankel divorce — said the special treatment leads some high - profile clients to believe that the «court system is somewhere between their private secretary and their private chef.»

The lawyer Tamsin Allen is representing all three claimants, and said: «Our clients have still not been told the whole story about how their names came to be in the papers seized during the phone hacking investigation in 2006 and why they were not warned that their privacy might have been compromised.

There would also be a «rainmaker» provision requiring a lawyer to disclose clients of his firm with state interests if he were more than reasonably expected to know about them, sources said.

Gonzalez's lawyer, «Don't Worry» Murray Richman, was coy about what the guilty pleas meant for his client.

Linda Mangano's lawyer has attempted to show his client did some work for Singh and that statements she made about the work she performed, which the government alleges are lies, could be interpreted as the truth.

Senate majority leader Dean Skelos told reporters after huddling privately with his members that Republicans are still talking with Governor Andrew Cuomo about a specific proposal for client disclosure by lawyer - legislators.

Skelos» lawyer Robert Gage declined to comment about whether publicity about Silver's conviction would adversely affect his client's chances.

«The Republicans should be very careful about attacks related to legal clients considering they're running a trial lawyer,» one Democratic insider said.

The Moreland Commission asked members of the legislature who are lawyers to disclose more details about the clients they serve in their private practices.

President Trump's personal lawyer said he is worried about the confidentiality of roughly three clients since he branched off from the Trump Organization in 2017 — including the president and...

Lawyers for Grant and Milici each said they «deny the allegations» about their married clients.

However, athletes that reach those high protein needs are about as rare as lawyers who under - bill their clients!

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The Devil Inside director William Brent Bell is behind this thriller about a lawyer who discovers her client is a werewolf.

Stormy Daniels» lawyer Michael Avenatti saw Rudy Giuliani's latest interview about his new client, President Donald Trump, and had this reaction: «I can't believe that actually just happened.»

In the first and funniest story, a lawyer (Laura Dern) has to deal with a client on the verge of losing his mind; in the drily observational second tale, a wife and mother (Michelle Williams) meets with an elderly man (René Auberjonois) about buying some vintage sandstone, and has to cope with her husband's tactlessness.

She is talking here about a scene in Molly's Game when defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba) changes his attitude towards his client Molly Bloom.

Making his directorial debut with an adaptation of Molly Bloom's 2014 memoir about running a high - stakes poker game, Aaron Sorkin fills the script with smart (and improbably sassy) zingers, including this put - down, by Bloom's lawyer (Idris Elba), of the cover photo chosen by his client (Jessica Chastain) for her book:

But while many district lawyers see their job as being about risk avoidance, good lawyers are skilled at finding creative ways to help their clients reach their goals.

I really liked what you said about all the things a lawyer does behind the scenes to rep the client.

They should have known better than to take on a lawyer as a client: — RRB - But it also shows that even professional lawyers can be quite badly informed about fraudulent practices in vanity publishing.

I talk to clients about it, I talk to other lawyers about it, I talk to industry experts about it.