What you want to avoid most is «the profound waste of resources» that
come with litigation, he said.
If they had just sat down in the beginning of the process and worked for a resolution, they would have avoided all the painful things that
come with litigation.»
In order to successfully handle all of the meetings and deadlines that
come with litigation, it is important to have an experienced legal advocate.
The government still have time to save the whole nation some embarrassment, by reviewing its decisions and using ADR to resolve this matter and save the country all the cost that
comes with litigation and compensation as we have cautioned earlier.
Not exact matches
«When people finally get to the point of
coming to talk to me, it usually takes another six months for it to sink in that they have to file,» said Cara O'Neill, a legal editor
with Nolo who also is a bankruptcy and
litigation attorney in Roseville, California.
It's the same thing when it
came with BP, when it
comes to these penalties, you want to get the money, so you don't want to break the company that you're doing it
with; it can really cripple it in terms of payments, but you don't want some sort of
litigation or anything like that that is going to completely bankrupt the company, full stop, right in that moment, because you want to get paid.
The provincial government will be working
with Ottawa when it
comes to
litigation over what they both consider unfair duties by the U.S. government on softwood lumber exports from Canada.
«There may
come a point if there is
litigation in Europe that the Church of England is faced
with giving up its duty to marry everyone and therefore its established status is undermined — that's an instability that's been created,» says Hart.
Katherine Snedaker, a Norwalk resident and Executive Director of the non-profit PinkConcussions.com, told Concussion
Litigation Reporter that 75 students in Norwalk public schools have reported concussions
with 19 of them
coming from non-school sports, which were not covered by the state law.
CAIR - NY
came up
with the idea to hold the emergency rally Tuesday night when news reports of the planned executive orders began to break, according to Albert Cahn, CAIR - NY's director of strategic
litigation.
On the Republican side, commercial
litigation lawyer Sarmad Khojasteh, a man who as a young boy fled Iran
with his family during the Islamic Revolution to
come to America, has created a campaign account to run as a Republican for the same seat being vacated by George Latimer, who is leaving to become Westchester County executive in January.
Maertz, an insurance
litigation and trial attorney, said she wants to see more money
come back to Suffolk from the state, adding that Long Island effectively is subsidizing other regions, especially New York City
with the MTA payroll tax, as well as areas upstate.
The plan to close Indian Point, which would take place over the course of the next four years, was announced earlier this year by Cuomo and
came as the product of years of negotiations and even
litigation with the plant owner, Entergy.
They
came up during
litigation over automobile patents and again
with the advent of the telegraph, electric lighting, aircraft, lasers and microprocessors.
Along
with regular record keeping, completing written accident and incident reports while the information is still fresh can
come in handy in the event of
litigation.
Concerning the three student populations
with additional educational needs to be taken into account, more
litigation may be
coming.
Two state teachers unions — the California Teachers Association (NEA's state affiliate) and the California Federation of Teachers —
came out
with a joint press release announcing that they had filed a motion «to intervene in
litigation.»
This past week brought more patent
litigation drama along
with new rumors for the exciting gadgets to
come in the next few months.
According to Jonathan Lovvorn, vice president and chief counsel for Animal Protection
Litigation at HSUS, many of Petland's puppies
come from mills,
with the Hunte Corporation acting as a middleman.
For more than a year, we have been trying to reach an agreement
with Epic to resolve these issues without resorting to
litigation, but were unable to
come to reasonable terms
with Epic.
We are not going to put up
with this nasty fraudulent
litigation coming from the radical nutjobs on the left.
Their release
comes a week after Shell rolled out its Sky scenario illustrating a possible pathway for the world to achieve the goal of keeping global temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius — and sets up a showdown leading into the company's annual meeting in The Hague next month,
with Shell facing mounting pressure from climate
litigation and its own shareholders.
Known as the «Rocket Docket,» this court moves quickly in
litigation,
with most cases
coming to trial (or being otherwise concluded) within 10 months after case filing.
This blawg examines the NBC television series The Office and
comes up
with a per - episode estimate of the value of
litigation claims against Dunder Mifflin.
Ralph Kroman, partner
with WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto, says it's never a bad idea for a lawyer to be proactive rather than reactive, but when it
comes to protecting customer information and the organization from potential
litigation, in - house can never be too careful when preparing for a cyberattack and its aftermath.
Now
comes Bloomberg Law to the mix
with its launch yesterday of
Litigation Analytics.
Medical expert testimony for
litigation doesn't
come cheap in the United States,
with expert fees costing as much as $ 1,000 an hour.
The goal is to ensure your client understands the risks involved
with legal decisions, whether it's
coming to terms
with an agreement or taking a step in
litigation.
A former prosecutor in the Bronx, Li
came to the Journal as a reporter in 2013 after stints
with Law Technology News, The American Lawyer and
Litigation Daily.
Other factual aspects that often help this exercise work more effectively include aspects such as an existing relationship between the parties and / or a desire to develop or continue a relationship; a situation in which an apology could realistically help a party
come to terms
with a harm; a situation in which one or both parties wish to limit publicity; and a situation where one or both parties are concerned about
litigation costs.113
Otherwise, human rights tribunals and the courts will have to define that phase on an ad hoc basis as specific cases
come before them,
with the corresponding uncertainty, expense and delay of
litigation.
Contact the estate
litigation lawyers at Eisen Law in Toronto to learn how our knowledgeable lawyers will provide you
with the peace of mind that
comes with knowing the best possible resolution of your estate, trust, guardianship, or elder law matter was reached.
We understand the needs of a modern day
litigation practice and where circumstances dictate we are able to
come in house to deal
with your matter.
But it is on mandatory use that the revamping
comes into its own
with a table of various obscure
litigation covered including claims under the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966 and for a detailed assessment of a returning officer's account under the Representation of the People Act 1983.
Ian R. MacDonald, a partner and senior litigator
with Field Law in Calgary, has devised a «roadmap to resolution» to help parties navigate a
litigation plan under Alberta's new Rules of Court that
came into force in November 2010.
For example, Walmart's contracts
with its vendors have provisions of that type (I
came across it in IP
litigation between two of its vendors).
King & Wood Mallesons» (KWM) China arm is in talks to take on large teams of lawyers from the firm's Dubai, Germany, Italy and Spain offices as well as City corporate and
litigation teams,
with the news
coming as former partners have been emailed about potential liabilities they may face relating to the firm's pending January tax bill.
«I think there was a realization that a consensus model would be a way to effect the change that we need to make,» says Stockwoods LLP's Brian Gover, chairman of The Advocates» Society's civil trials task force that
came up
with the 16 best practices for civil
litigation in Ontario.
Andy McGregor, banking
litigation partner at RPC, says: «The banks will have been negotiating
with the regulator for months trying to
come to a settlement to reduce the size of their fine, but also trying to limit the extent to which the FCA's final penalty notice includes any admissions or evidence that could be used against them in a potential civil claim in the future.
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.
Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time
litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal
litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has
come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible
with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.
A disturbing number of the hours I billed as an attorney
came about because my firm got involved in a case where a lawyer
with a creative theory of business - competition - through -
litigation initiated a suit that ultimately cost his or her client more money in the long run.
Shearman's international arbitration practice only takes in one or two juniors a year, but there's a wide variety of work on offer as «after arbitration
comes enforcement (of the arbitral award), and we do some of that as well, usually in conjunction
with litigation.»
His years of
litigation experience provides him
with the perspective to tell the parties if they are taking an unreasonable position, a skill that is helpful in
coming to the resolution of complex matters.
However, I have found this laissez - faire attitude sometimes
comes with a cost, usually in the form of a
litigation lawyer's letter demanding the client immediately cease using the software in question, or pay additional licensing fees / upgrade its software to account for the client's additional usage / misuse or face the (dire) consequences.
I don't regularly see
litigation that spawn overnight
with no back and forth that
came before them.
The feasible responses seem to be (i) move into higher - end work, often of an advisory or highly specialist nature: Jeremy Robinson, aviation and competition law partner at Gates and Partners, solicitors, believes that the competition in his practice area does not
come, and is unlikely to
come, from PLFs or ABSs anytime soon; (ii) form collaborations short of ABSs or multi-disciplinary practices
with complementary non-solicitor businesses (Martyn Taylor, MD of respected solicitors agency, Ashley Taylors, has noticed a huge increase in the number of solicitors» firms looking to work on
litigation - related joint projects
with Ashley Taylors; (iii) to the extent possible adopt the practices of more successful competitors; (iv) innovate.
«The panel finds that Justice Matlow participated in controversial political discussions, inappropriately used the privileged platform of judicial office, publicly offered legal advice and criticism, took a role in
litigation that was likely to
come before his court, communicated
with the press in the course of advancing a specific point of view in a legal and political dispute against a party that was imminently to appear before him in
litigation, and failed to ensure that his actions and the extent of his involvement in the dispute
with that party were disclosed to his co-panelists [on Divisional Court] and to the parties,» said the panel.
It is important for the trial team before and during trial to feel comfortable
with the way the case is progressing, so at the client's request our
litigation consultants will
come to your office or the location of your trial to provide in - person services.
With this expansion has come an enhanced vision for CLSMF of a cohesive regional law firm with the capacity to engage in high - impact litigation for the benefit of low - income persons, minorities, veterans, and the elderly in Central Flor
With this expansion has
come an enhanced vision for CLSMF of a cohesive regional law firm
with the capacity to engage in high - impact litigation for the benefit of low - income persons, minorities, veterans, and the elderly in Central Flor
with the capacity to engage in high - impact
litigation for the benefit of low - income persons, minorities, veterans, and the elderly in Central Florida.