Sentences with phrase «clients are in a court»

Speaking after the adjournment, counsel for the claimant, Mr. George Halliday, said his client was in the court to address the issue of non-authorisation of withdrawal of N151.8 m from his account by the bank.

Real estate agents, mortgage brokers: You know how difficult it is to facilitate a sale or purchase of a home when your clients are in a court battle.

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Far more favourable in the courts» eyes are non-solicitation agreements, which prevent workers from actively calling on former clients or co-workers, and confidentiality clauses, which bar people from divulging trade secrets.

Ackman is known for courting publicity for his activist investments but has shrouded his more recent bets in mystery, saying on a recent conference call with clients that one new investment has already risen 30 % and that another, which he also did not name, had already been sold.

The revelation that Fox News opinion host Sean Hannity is one of Michael Cohen's clients was arguably the biggest bombshell to emerge from Cohen's court hearing in New York on Monday.

When Addis was courting European clients, he used the office of a Catenas member in London.

It was recently revealed in court that Hannity is one of Cohen's clients.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a lawyer must personally pay the legal costs of a hospital and a doctor involved in a legal battle with her, over her attempt to remove a client from life support, saying she was «intent on achieving her own personal objective.»

Mr. Stris contends that his client was misled and that the contract was executed under fraudulent circumstances, giving her the right to sue in court rather than proceed in arbitration.

«Irreconcilable differences have developed with the client which make our effective representation of the client impossible,» Gates» trial attorneys Shan Wu, Walter Mack and Annemarie McAvoy wrote in a filing submitted to federal court last Thursday, which was unsealed Wednesday.

Cohen's recent legal works appears to have been limited, with his lawyer saying in court Monday that Cohen had 10 clients in 2017 and 2018, but only three to whom he provided legal services: Trump, GOP donor Elliott Broidy (for whom we found out last week Cohen had negotiated a hush - money payment) and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

The Competition Tribunal appeal hearing between The Commissioner of Competition and The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) began Monday in the Federal Court of Appeal with TREB once again arguing that clients» privacy rights will be breached if certain data is exposed on the Internet on virtual office websites (VOWs).

Cohen's disclosure comes on the eve of a Thursday court hearing in New York where a federal judge is poised to decide whether to appoint a special master to oversee the examination of documents seized from Cohen's office earlier this month to determine if they should be shielded from federal investigators by attorney - client privilege.

The highest standards or expectations our Law Courts put on the quality of service a consumer may receive is in relation to «Full Agency» Client Relationships.

Michael is proud to defend the rights of clients facing charges in mayor's, state, and federal courts.

Based upon this analysis, we provide our clients with recommendations concerning whether they should: (1) move to be appointed lead plaintiff; (2) file an individual non-class action in federal or state court; or (3) take no active role, that is, remain a class member in an action initiated by others.

It was revealed in court proceedings yesterday that Fox talk show host, Sean Hannity, has been Cohen's secret client while Hannity was blasting on air the Russia investigation and FBI raid on Cohen.

Committed to advancing the interests of our clients, both foreign and domestic, irrespective of where they trade securities, Pomerantz is at the vanguard of litigation in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Morrison v. Nat» l Australia Bank, 130 S. Ct. 2869 (2010).

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The fiduciary standard is getting a lot of attention in the United States once again as the Department of Labour's rule requiring advisors to act in the best interests of their clients was denied by an appeals court

Mr. Lieberman is working with the Firm's international clients to craft a response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Morrison v. Nat» l Australia Bank, Ltd., which limited the ability of foreign investors to seek redress under the federal securities laws.

President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said in court that the Fox News host (and frequent Trump cheerleader) was also his client.

In court their lawyer Moshkani Farahani, who had previously argued against the charges faced by each of his clients at the last court session of this trial on 24 November, said they should be released.

Just as sexual self - expression has few limits in a culture where chaste behavior is mocked, lawyers» self - interest is apt to run amok when anyone who places client or court above profit is branded a hypocrite or a chump.

Edwin Graning, who was hired as a driver on April 1, 2009, was «concerned that he might be transporting a client to undergo an abortion» when he was assigned to take two women to Planned Parenthood, according to his lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Austin.

«Paraclete» is a forensic term for the lawyer or counselor who acts for a client on trial.43 Accordingly, the Paraclete was the one who stood up in Jewish court for the disciples under accusation and threat of judgment.

(Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery, is headed to the US Supreme Court over its refusal to bake a cake for a gay client, and the Justice Department previously filed an amicus brief in the baker's favor.)

We have been successful throughout the United States in providing representation to our clients in both state and federal courts.

Although the work is more fulfilling, the job comes with its own stresses — being entirely responsible for preventing a family's eviction, navigating the hot mess of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.

WineGavel Founder Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement: Former WineGavel online auction house founder and president Joshua Krummenoehl, who was arrested in New York in July on charges of grand theft by embezzlement for auctioning clients wine and never sending them the proceeds, has pleaded guilty in a Napa court...

Now, attorneys for former Adidas executives James Gatto and Merl Code and former sports agent Christian Dawkins are expected to argue in court that what their clients are accused of doing does not constitute a federal crime.

Well, there's a reason that they don't let engineers talk to the clients directly... Conversely, while the occasional person is foolish enough to think that they know better than lawyers and try to represent themselves in court or other legal situations, few people are foolish enough to believe that they know better than engineers and that they should be able to build their own airplanes free from the restrictions of conventional avionics.

Lawyer Effah Dartey's client is among the seven out of the 12 High Court suspended Judges implicated in the judicial scandal by the Tiger Eye Private Investigation.

And we weren't asked for our input before Jeremy led on air pollution at PMQs: an issue we'd been doing a lot of work on, challenging government complacency and inaction in the context of the Client Earth court case and the Volkswagen scandal.

His lawyer Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, SAN, while arguing Amosu's bail application after he was arraigned before Justice Mohammed Idris before a Federal High court in Lagos, said his client had returned «collossal sums».

The money announced Monday will be used at immigration courts in Batavia and Napanoch, while the IDC plans to push for $ 11.1 million in funding for the program in order to have full representation for indigent clients in immigration court.

At sentencing in Manhattan federal court, Weiner attorney Arlo Devlin - Brown said his client likely exchanged thousands of messages with hundreds of women over the years and was communicating with up to 19 women when he encountered the teenager.

He was indicted on several felonies in March and his lawyer said over the summer in federal court that his client was «seeking to resolve» the case and hopes to be «working something out.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has some harsh words for state lawmakers who are fighting his commission in court regarding subpoenas that would force legislators to reveal their outside business with private legal clients.

Leaders of the New York state legislature are in court fighting a request from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ethics commission that they turn over details about their private law clients.

Defense attorneys in court papers contend Singh was the mastermind in the scheme alleged by the government, while maintaining their clients» innocence.

During a brief court appearance with the jury absent, Morvillo told the judge he has built a solid legal reputation by «being intent on doing everything I can in my power to ensure that my clients testify truthfully, even those who, like Mr. Howe, have had a history of not always telling the truth.»

To do that, Cuomo is proposing a five - point plan that starts with what he said would be the strongest campaign disclosure rules in the nation — including revealing client lists from outside businesses, which he said are not protected, as lawmakers have claimed in court.

At the resumed trial before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, counsel to Suswam, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN, informed the court that his client was currently on admission in an Abuja hospital.

In court documents submitted earlier this week, attorneys for three former executives of Buffalo development company LPCiminelli, called for charges against their client, at minimum, be tried in Western New YorIn court documents submitted earlier this week, attorneys for three former executives of Buffalo development company LPCiminelli, called for charges against their client, at minimum, be tried in Western New Yorin Western New York.

While «information» may include the identity of a client courts have found that revealing client identities does not breach ethical obligations because attorneys may be obligated or permitted by law to provide this information,» the report, issued in January 2010, found.

Meanwhile, the legislature has been challenging some of the subpoenas issued by the Moreland Commission in court, saying the Cuomo - appointed panel does not have the right to look into details of their private law clients or political campaign operations.

In an unrelated discrimination case filed by a client in 2015, he told a Brooklyn Federal Court judge that the mob was after him, potentially on the order of Staten Island Democratic Party Chair John Gulino, the Staten Island Advance reporteIn an unrelated discrimination case filed by a client in 2015, he told a Brooklyn Federal Court judge that the mob was after him, potentially on the order of Staten Island Democratic Party Chair John Gulino, the Staten Island Advance reportein 2015, he told a Brooklyn Federal Court judge that the mob was after him, potentially on the order of Staten Island Democratic Party Chair John Gulino, the Staten Island Advance reported.

«This office is investigating the above stated case against one Usman Okai Austin who is your client who is currently standing trial in a similar case before the Federal High Court, Lokoja.

His counsel, A.A. Ossai, however, pleaded with the court to allow his client to remain in the EFCC custody pending when his bail application would be heard.