Sentences with phrase «contested proceedings»

We also advise clients in government enforcement actions, federal court litigation, government contracts litigation, bid protests and other contested proceedings.

They typically only become an issue in hotly contested proceedings, when spouses can't agree on custody terms and their inability to do so forces the court to decide.

However, to avoid contested proceedings in court, the spouses can choose to sign a written agreement that establishes each person's marital property rights.

They can not represent either party in future contested proceedings.

Each spouse has his and her own attorney, who are contractually barred from participating in contested proceedings, and so all energy and resources focus on the future and on helping the parties reach an agreement.

What is certain is that if things go wrong, an order — whether by consent or after contested proceedings — is not easy to unscramble only because inflation has reduced its fairness.

contested proceedings relating to children, including applications for contact, residence, leave to remove and prohibited steps orders.

The new AIA contested proceedings share many features with district court litigation and the prior USPTO interference and inter partes reexamination practices, which are being phased out.

He has worked on numerous contested proceedings within the Patent Office, including inter partes review (IPR), covered business method (CBM), and ex parte and inter partes re-examination proceedings representing both petitioners and patent owners.

They each retain attorneys who pledge to focus solely on helping the spouses reach a full out - of - court settlement; the attorneys are contractually - barred from engaging in costly and destructive contested proceedings (they can not file contested pleadings or motions, and they can not appear at trials or other hearings where the parties are not in agreement).

In Collaborative Practice, the attorneys are contractually barred from appearing in contested proceedings, which provides everyone more of an incentive to reach a private agreement outside of court.

If a creditor knows that the debtor is almost certainly going to contest those proceedings or the debt is complex then, subject to the amount involved, it may make more sense to engage with the Protocol to avoid criticism at a later stage.

He has also lectured on family law issues and on evidence and procedure in contested proceedings.

Fund v. Rowe, 472 So.2 d 1145 (Fla. 1985), the Florida Supreme Court adopted the federal «lodestar» method for determining the amount of reasonable attorney's fees and costs in contested proceedings.

Micah has also been involved in the negotiation of complex remedies and orders with the Competition Bureau and has appeared before the Competition Tribunal in contested proceedings.

Following an application by the Commissioner, the Competition Tribunal granted an interim injunction requiring Parkland Industries to preserve and «hold separate» six gas stations and eight supply agreements that it acquired from Pioneer pending the outcome of the contested proceedings.

The old adage «time is money» has never been truer than when applied to the English civil courts, and the relative expense of expert evidence in contested proceedings is a matter that has been uppermost in the minds of those charged with reforms to the justice system.

In Collaborative Practice, the attorneys are contractually barred from appearing in contested proceedings, which provides everyone more of an incentive to reach a private agreement outside of court.

Each spouse has his and her own attorney, who are contractually barred from participating in contested proceedings, and so all energy and resources focus on the future and on helping the parties reach an agreement.