Sentences with phrase «clients by other lawyers»

He has been referred clients by other lawyers, judges, prosecutors and police officers, as well as former clients and their families.

Not exact matches

By requiring retirement advisers to either meet a «fiduciary» standard or put other safeguards into place, the rule holds financial advisers to the same benchmark already required of doctors and lawyers — that they act in their clients» best interests.

And if the state can define marriage by diktat, why not other basic human relationships, like the parent - child relationship, the doctor - patient relationship, the lawyer - client relationship, or the priest - penitent relationship?

SILVER claimed through his spokesperson that SILVER found clients by virtue of his having been a «lawyer for more than 40 years,» in a manner that was «not unlike any other attorney in this state, anywhere.»

The annual LSUC filing does not require lawyers to attest that they have abided by the terms of the oath they swore when they were called to the bar, it does not require them to attest that they have generally complied with the Rules of Professional Conduct, nor does it require them to attest that they have sought to advance any other principles or goals (e.g., justice, access to justice, fairness, quality client service, etc.).

Moreover, why should a lawyer pay $ 1,000 to be included in a site that's likely to attract those clients who, quite frankly, have already been rejected as undesirable by other lawyers or who are intent on bringing a suit whether it's meritorious or not?

Comment 16 to the rule requires a lawyer to «act competently to safeguard information relating to the representation of a client against inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure by the lawyer or other persons who are participating in the representation of the client or who are subject to the lawyer's supervision.»

But with the U.S. government making no secret of its subpoenas for personal information stored by Google and other search companies, even temporary storage of a lawyer's files on Google's servers could threaten client confidentiality.

I suppose one might want to distinguish for some of them the lawyer who has a generally accessible online presence (like a web site) and who accepts clients by electronic communications from anywhere, compared to a lawyer who targets a particular jurisdiction other than the one in which he or she is formally admitted to practice.

Without doubt lawyers, accountants and tax advisers want their work to be seen by other advisers but more importantly need to be recognised by actual and potential clients of various kinds.

In some cases those clients are currently being served by lawyers; in other cases those clients are getting little or no help from lawyers.

On the other hand, the comments from the lawyer who charges $ 1,000 an hour to discourage clients from signing up by the hour doesn't hearten me much either.

Clients, prospects, jouranalists and other individuals targeted by a lawyer can only read so many blogs a day (and this includes blogs on politics, gadgets, health, etc.), and will therefore start to become more and more discriminating about which lawyer blogs they follow on a regular basis.

Even where a client accesses personal email on a personal smartphone or home computer, lawyers should be sensitive to issues of access by other third parties, such as family members, particularly in cases such as divorces or will contests.

One point Connecticut made is that outsourced storage is not really a new idea in law; IronMountain and other large paper data storage vendors have been used by lawyers for years to store sensitive client information.

Good lawyers want to help other lawyers by sending them good cases and good clients.

This is where many legal services are heading, especially those for which the outcome is a document or other tangible output: lawyers will help create processes and algorithms by which clients can take on more of the work, corresponding to clients» growing readiness to assume more responsibility for their legal affairs.

The opinion goes so far as to note that a lawyer who becomes aware that the client is receiving personal email on a workplace computer or other device owned or controlled by the employer has a duty to warn that this practice should be discontinued.

Unlike some other professionals, all lawyers have unlimited licenses to practice law yet few, if any, have the competence to practice in all areas of the law» combined with report that the LSUC is reforming referral practices as discussed in the article by Michele Henry, Kenyon Wallace, «Lawyers need signed consent to refer out cases», thestar.com, April 27, 2017, would it not make sense to require that general practitioners be the first point of contact for any client to assess the client's needs and to determine whether those needs require the skills of a speclawyers have unlimited licenses to practice law yet few, if any, have the competence to practice in all areas of the law» combined with report that the LSUC is reforming referral practices as discussed in the article by Michele Henry, Kenyon Wallace, «Lawyers need signed consent to refer out cases», thestar.com, April 27, 2017, would it not make sense to require that general practitioners be the first point of contact for any client to assess the client's needs and to determine whether those needs require the skills of a specLawyers need signed consent to refer out cases», thestar.com, April 27, 2017, would it not make sense to require that general practitioners be the first point of contact for any client to assess the client's needs and to determine whether those needs require the skills of a specialist?

At the same time, seniors lawyers are freed up to spend more time on issues requiring their expertise and on building the relationship with the client, without being tied down by work than can be undertaken by others.

Many law firms will have a recent news section (which might also include links to Client Alerts and other publications by its lawyers) on their website.

Many of Bruce's clients are referred by other lawyers who know the success Bruce has had in trying and settling major cases.

This change, more than any other I can envision, would transform how law is practiced by infusing lawyers and eventually judges, too, with the human compassion that invites clients» stories to be heard and their pain to be seen.

It means being able to stand by assertions made to your clients, the lawyer on the other side and all experts instructed in your client's matter.

Too often when a CT lawyer is accused of embezzlement, fraud, or other wrongdoing by a client their immediate inclination is to offer a quick settlement or stand on their reputation.

If you think about it, it puts us in a rather awkward position because lawyers serve the clients on one hand, but on the other are compensated by the law firm on a billable hour structure.

Based on the decisions of the courts in Alberta and British Columbia, solicitor - client privilege is not waived when an opinion provided by a lawyer to one party is disclosed, on a confidential basis, to other parties with sufficient common interest in the same transactions.

While most lawyers view their firm's culture as an agreed upon set of behavioral norms developed between / among each other, the clients» demands and needs must be served by the culture as well.

What sets him apart from every other injury lawyer is that he provides medical care by booking appointments for his clients with the best specialists and doctors who can help.

(a) A lawyer shall not reveal information protected by the attorney - client privilege under applicable law or other information gained in the professional relationship that the client has requested be held inviolate or the disclosure of which would be embarrassing or would be likely to be detrimental to the client unless the client consents after consultation, except for disclosures that are impliedly authorized in order to carry out the representation, and except as stated in paragraphs (b) and (c).

Our lawyers have significant experience in assisting our clients protect and develop the full value of their intellectual property by prosecuting and defending copyright and trademark infringement cases, unfair competition actions, Internet and technology disputes, franchise disputes, false advertising claims, litigation concerning trade secrets and restrictive covenants, and other claims relating to intellectual property.

The Committee then listed six different situations where lawyers might consider a more secure communication method than email, including when: 1) communicating highly sensitive or confidential information via email or unencrypted email connections, 2) sending an email to or from an account that the email sender or recipient shares with others, 3) sending an email to a client when it is possible that a third person (such as a spouse in a divorce case) knows the password to the email account, or to an individual client at that client's work email account, especially if the email relates to a client's employment dispute with his employer 4) sending an email from a public computer or a borrowed computer or where the lawyer knows that the emails may be read on a public or borrowed computer or on an unsecure network, 5) sending an email if the lawyer knows that the recipient may access it on devices that are potentially accessible to third persons or are not protected by a password, or 6) sending an email if the lawyer is concerned that the NSA or other law enforcement agency may read the email, with or without a warrant.

True, the basics involving the breakdown of marriage, divorce, custody and child support matters — still dominate family lawyers» time — but most family lawyers benefit their clients most before marriage, before sharing a residence, and before other major life events, addressed by power of attorney, Wills, Trusts, Living Wills, etc..

Our discussion this time around focused on the frustration some research lawyers still feel in their role not being fully understood by others in their law firm or by clients.

A Virginia lawyer who ran afoul of discovery requirements in a major wrongful - death trial by allegedly encouraging a client to clean up his Facebook account has paid his $ 544,000 share of a $ 722,000 legal fee award to opposing counsel and seen an $ 8.5 million award to his client and other plaintiffs in the case upheld by the state supreme court.

When I suggested ten years ago that email would become the principal means by which clients and lawyers would communicate, many people suggested I was dangerous, that I was possibly insane, that I should not be allowed to speak in public, and that I certainly did not understand anything about security or confidentiality but [email] technology and many other emerging technologies have now firmly taken hold.

While all other financial institutions and professionals are still bound by the law and must track their clients» money trails and may be subjected to warrantless searches by government authorities, the unique role of lawyers and the legal profession's independent role in the justice system has been recognized.

«Number of lawyers recognized by lawyer ratings organizations compared to size of firms, strong client service, international network with other boutiques via L & E Global.»

We have all encountered these «grape expectations» in our careers — the perception by clients, potential clients, judges and others that the higher the price, the better the lawyer.

Lawyers typically operate in reactive, rather than proactive mode; they are constantly putting out fires, responding to requests (or demands) placed on them by others, whether those demands are made by clients, adversaries, partners or the Court.

In my experience as a family law lawyer, however, it has seemed to me that the bell curve modeling the impact of legislation on my clients has perhaps a higher standard of deviation than the norm, giving the bell curve a greater population at the extremes and thus fatter tails than suggested by the normal distribution; in other words, my impression is that quite a bit more than 5 % of separating couples experience an unfair or very unfair result from the application of family law legislation.

They include «failing to disclose that the legal work is routinely referred to other lawyers for a fee rather than being performed by the lawyer;» «misleading about the size of the lawyer's practice or the areas of law in which the lawyer provides services;» «referring to fee arrangements offered to clients without qualifications;» and «advertising awards and endorsements from third parties without disclaimers or qualifications.»

Dentons» model disrupts the traditional «pay - to - play» legal referral industry by ditching membership fees and allowing multiple firms from the same jurisdiction to participate, benefiting smaller firms that are typically priced out of other referral networks and increasing the chance of connecting clients with the best lawyers for the job.

It is caused by at least three other factors: (i) almost every problem law students encounter in law school comes labelled either by the course or by the assigned moot topic; few students ever have to deal with a simple cry for help from a client; (ii) in my experience at law schools — and it may be different now — almost all research was done in the context of litigation or moots and, while that's obviously an important focus, it's not the only one; and, perhaps the most important factor, (iii) the lawyers who give the students work far too often ask the student to «find a case» — this is almost universal focus of litigators — and are uninterested in either context or principle.

In the Kitchener style («your country needs you»: 1914) of much modern code drafting (and even court forms, harrumph) the rule states: «If you are a lawyer... and you personally hold, or your firm holds, confidential information in relation to a client or former client, you must not risk breaching confidentiality by acting, or continuing to act, for another client... where: (a) that information might reasonably be expected to be material; and (b) that client has an interest adverse to the [other] client, except where proper arrangements can be made to protect that information [as set out later in the rules].»

That prohibition exists to protect «a person who has chosen to be represented by a lawyer in a matter against possible overreaching by other lawyers who are participating in the matter, interference by those lawyers with the client - lawyer relationship and the uncounselled disclosure of information relating to the representation.»

Our experienced lawyers provide value to clients by considering the impact that credit support or other structural terms can have on cash flow or credit risk, by highlighting the impact of complex transactions.

Other directory - style organizations cited by clients in the survey include Avvo, Best Lawyers / US News & World Report, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, and Super Lawyers.

She has distinguished herself from many other lawyers by her personal attentiveness and quick responsiveness to clients.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10