Sentences with phrase «counsels in a case over»

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There was a cloud over Kolb's candidacy: He was mentioned in a 2004 civil court case brought by a former female Assembly aide against the chamber's former counsel, Michael Boxley.

In October, Leahy Scott and her deputy inspector general, Spencer Freedman, met with DCJS's top legal counsel, John Czajka, and Executive Deputy Commissioner Michael C. Green to outline the findings of the inspector general's investigation and to turn the case over to DCJS.

The funds, obtained from a parolee who was found by NYS Parole officers to be in possession of $ 16,800 from a personal injury settlement, were secured after the Counsels» Office filed two petitions in Erie County Family Court requesting that the money be turned over to pay arrears accrued in the two cases.

There was tension in the room over the mayor's assertion that certain details could not be revealed so as to not compromise Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's criminal investigation into the case, with First Assistant Corporation Counsel Georgia Pastana in attendance.

There was a cloud over Brian Kolb's candidacy: He was mentioned in a 2004 civil court case brought by a former female Assembly aide against the chamber's former counsel, Michael Boxley.

says Ann Weeks, senior counsel for the Clean Air Task Force, who said that in her 20 years in the field, someone always sues over new pollution rules and the rules typically wind up being upheld, as was the case with rules regulating power plants» mercury emissions.

In King County Superior Court, a case had to be stayed while a party sought new counsel after their attorney acknowledged that he falsified a memo and emails before turning them over to plaintiffs in a nationwide class - action lawsuit.7 Similarly, this spring, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquIn King County Superior Court, a case had to be stayed while a party sought new counsel after their attorney acknowledged that he falsified a memo and emails before turning them over to plaintiffs in a nationwide class - action lawsuit.7 Similarly, this spring, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquin a nationwide class - action lawsuit.7 Similarly, this spring, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquin a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquin an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.»

The guide starts out making the business case for diversity, including a 2011 statement supporting diversity which was signed by over 50 in - house counsel across Canada.

This case was leanly staffed, allowing me to work one - on - one with one of the co-heads of the Los Angeles litigation group and to take on key responsibilities in the case including an ownership role over drafting our motion to dismiss, reply brief, discovery responses and requests, as well as communicating with opposing counsel.

Legal analytics gives litigators an advantage over opposing counsel by providing data - driven insights into how judges, attorneys, and parties have behaved in similar cases in the past, and how they are likely to behave in similar cases in the future.

, USBC, E.D. Calif. — lead debtor's counsel for medical device manufacturer (U.S. subsidiary of insolvent Dutch multinational conglomerate) in liquidating chapter 11 case; structured, negotiated and confirmed compromise plan that provided 85 % cash payment to unaffiliated unsecured creditors while avoiding lengthy and expensive litigation over treatment of affiliates.

Petitioner's conviction was ultimately affirmed by the Illinois Supreme Court, over the petitioner's contention that a line of cases culminating in Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U. S. 25, requires state provision of counsel whenever imprisonment is an authorized penalty.

Our car accident lawyer in Vancouver, Jamie Butler, has acted as counsel in thousands of cases all over British Columbia for 20 + years.

In re Jomed, Inc. et al., USBC, E.D. Calif. — lead debtor's counsel for medical device manufacturer (U.S. subsidiary of insolvent Dutch multinational conglomerate) in liquidating chapter 11 case; structured, negotiated and confirmed compromise plan that provided 85 % cash payment to unaffiliated unsecured creditors while avoiding lengthy and expensive litigation over treatment of affiliateIn re Jomed, Inc. et al., USBC, E.D. Calif. — lead debtor's counsel for medical device manufacturer (U.S. subsidiary of insolvent Dutch multinational conglomerate) in liquidating chapter 11 case; structured, negotiated and confirmed compromise plan that provided 85 % cash payment to unaffiliated unsecured creditors while avoiding lengthy and expensive litigation over treatment of affiliatein liquidating chapter 11 case; structured, negotiated and confirmed compromise plan that provided 85 % cash payment to unaffiliated unsecured creditors while avoiding lengthy and expensive litigation over treatment of affiliates.

Evan Brown's Internet Cases blog flagged an interesting case over the weekend coming out of Morris County, N.J. Brown writes that the courthouse in that county provides wireless internet access, and during jury selection, plaintiffs counsel in a medical malpractice case began using his laptop to «Google» potential jurors to gain additional information about them.

And at the same time, the lawyers accepted a secret side deal, where the firm would receive over $ 6 million from DuPont to refrain from further litigation involving Benlate (the pesticide at issue) and to serve as counsel or consultants for the company in future cases.

In this case, Class Counsel commenced this lawsuit over five years ago and have spent an enormous amount of time prosecuting the lawsuit.

In that case, Rod was class counsel for a neighborhood of over 400 people who alleged that gasoline leaked from a nearby gas station and contaminated the groundwater and indoor air in their homeIn that case, Rod was class counsel for a neighborhood of over 400 people who alleged that gasoline leaked from a nearby gas station and contaminated the groundwater and indoor air in their homein their homes.

In another case concerning a collision on US - 59, we took over the litigation for a family after their previous legal counsel attempted to settle for $ 300,000.

His employment law and directors and officers representation is national in scope and he has been lead counsel in cases in over 45 states.

Statutory timelines, technical specifications of police instruments, on - scene presence or absence of roadside screening devices, etc. may affect the lawfulness of the investigation, the obligation to provide a breath sample, and the admissibility of any samples taken; inadequate caution about the right to counsel or opportunity to exercise it might warrant exclusion of evidence; a full strip - search in a routine case might warrant a stay of proceedings even if the accused «blew over».

If it's a large case with different strands which might cross over into employment law, corporate and tax, then I work alongside colleagues, counsel and consultants specialising in those areas.

We have over 130 active cases and growing, primarily in the practice of wage and hour law inclusive of class actions and we are looking for additional counsel to handle the expanding workload.

As lead trial counsel in the no - fault department, Paul has obtained plaintiff's verdicts in thousands of trials as well as settled over five thousand cases during his time with the firm.

Jamie Butler of Butler & Company, our ski accident lawyer in Vancouver, has acted as counsel in thousands of cases all over British Columbia.

Counsel for an international general contractor in over 140 cases involving disputes with owners, subcontractors, and condominium association concerning payment, delay claims, change - order claims, and construction defects.

Roderick Johnson has, for over a decade, practised almost exclusively as leading counsel for the defence in large, complex and high - profile cases — specialising particularly in cases involving drugs, fraud and money laundering.

IBM v Dalgleish [2018] IRLR 4, [2017] EWCA Civ 1212 John was one of a team of counsel acting for the Representative Beneficiaries in this pensions case which was heard over an almost unprecedented nine days in the Court of Appeal in May 2017.

Lead Trial Counsel in over a hundred civil jury trials with only 3 losses; an astounding 97 % case - winning percentage in trial

Once a lawyer is representing a client in court, the lawyer can cease to represent the client, either by «withdrawing» or in a «substitution of counsel» (which is far less regulated), but a lawyer can only withdraw and leave the client unrepresented if the lawyer obtains the permission of the court presiding over the case to do so, after giving appropriate formal notice to the client.

Successfully represented over 30 charter schools in cases concerning per - pupil funding allocations, including serving as lead trial counsel and arguing numerous appeals before the NC Court of Appeals and Supreme Court.

He has been counsel in over twenty reported or digested cases in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

The district's brief in the case involving D.C.'s handgun control ordinance is due this Friday and will carry Morrison's name, as well as that of Singer, who announced her resignation Dec. 17 in frustration over clashes with Peter Nickles, Mayor Adrian Fenty's general counsel.

We have served as arbitrators or counsel in over 500 cases under the rules of all major arbitral institutions, such as the ICC, LCIA, AAA / ICDR, SCC, CAM, CRCICA, NAI, DIAC, SIAC, Swiss Chambers and ICSID, as well as in UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations.

Class actions in Ontario have been permitted since 1992 and over the years, our counsel have been involved on fighting class cases on behalf of people who have been adversely affected by dangerous drugs such Prepulsid in which our firm was central in the recovery of $ 8.75 million for the individuals who were injured by taking this dangerous drug.

With funding from AARP, the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS), and the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, the Legal Hotline has provided individualized advice and counseling by attorneys to clients in over 120,000 cases.

For over twenty - five years Jay has served as lead litigation counsel in a wide range of technology, licensing, trade secret and other business cases in federal and state courts across the country.

Throughout his lengthy career as a defence lawyer, Justice Clifford served as counsel in many high profile and complex criminal cases; since 1997, he served as counsel in over 18 major homicide cases in the Ottawa area.

He has served as lead counsel for an injured client in over 35 jury trials and obtained the highest verdict ($ 620,000) in Clermont County, Ohio for a personal injury motor vehicle crash case.

The case was referred to a hearing in front of a magistrate — which he attended over the telephone without counsel.

Glaspy & Glaspy attorneys have served as national, regional and trial counsel for numerous clients and have tried over 50 asbestos cases to verdict in more than 20 states.

Our hit and run lawyer in Vancouver — Jamie Butler of Butler & Company has acted as counsel in thousands of automobile accident related cases all over British Columbia.

He has appeared in over 40 reported cases in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal and is instructed to appear in the Supreme Court as lead counsel in the much followed case of MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd [2016] 3 WLR 1519.

Our litigation consultants serve as a remote pair of eyes to the GC's office to encourage trial counsel to make easy changes to a case that will, based on decades of experience over thousands of cases, provide enormous dollar returns in litigation outcomes.

Opposing counsel may be hampered in vigorous advocacy against an attorney who wears judicial robes and presides over cases involving that counsel.

Over more than 25 years, Dan has become one of the most prominent lawyers in the country in the areas of freedom of expression and media law, and has been lead counsel on landmark Supreme Court of Canada cases.

Class counsel argued the trial court stated it had seen the «thousands» of hours of time expended by class counsel over the many years the case has been pending and that it did not need time sheets to come to its conclusion in favor of the $ 124 million award.

In R v Ulcay (2007) EWCA Crim 2379, [2007] All ER (D) 296 (Oct), the court gave important guidance in relation to solicitors and counsel taking over a case following the discharge of earlier representatioIn R v Ulcay (2007) EWCA Crim 2379, [2007] All ER (D) 296 (Oct), the court gave important guidance in relation to solicitors and counsel taking over a case following the discharge of earlier representatioin relation to solicitors and counsel taking over a case following the discharge of earlier representation.

In this case, over a series of motions, the judge repeatedly criticized appellants» counsel on matters including their advocacy skills, knowledge of the law and the handling of the matter.

He has appeared as counsel in over 200 reported cases, before all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada and before many tribunals.