Sentences with phrase «day life of a lawyer»

Through his blog, The Island Attorney, he writes about the day - to - day life of a lawyer in paradise.

Come along to one of our open days to gain an insight into the day - to - day life of a lawyer at an international law firm.

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Keating said Singh «lied every single day of his life,» but the lawyer underscored a conversation secretly captured on an FBI body wire in March 2015 in which Singh says he received «nothing, nothing» from Mangano, Mirabile said.

If after 10 years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us.»

Divorce lawyer at Slater and Gordon, Niamh McCarthy, said: «Although a large number of people have admitted to using dating apps while in a relationship it's apparent it is not something we are all willing to accept as part and parcel of the modern - day dating life.

She lives with her unhappily married lawyer parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) and her younger brothers in the small island community of New Penzance, New England (the film was shot off the coast of Rhode Island), where, as a loquacious onscreen narrator (Bob Balaban) stiffly informs us, a devastating storm is due to hit in three days.

Deborah L. Jacobs, a lawyer and journalist, is the author most recently of Four Seasons in a Day: Travel, Transitions and Letting Go of the Place We Call Home, about her adventures — and misadventures — living in France.

The Kuzios» story of leaving a living legacy is a happy one — and a trend that financial advisers and estate lawyers are seeing more of these days.

«This doesn't mean you live in the property 365 days of the year, but you can't be a visitor either,» explains Albert Luk, lawyer with Devry Smith Frank LLP, a Toronto law firm.

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These girls were lawyers and accountants and now they are living life in a bikini, surfing every day, and helping women across the world to become a more empowered version of themselves.

With lawyers often finding themselves portrayed in an unflattering light through the media and lawyer jokes, this is a special day set aside to show appreciation for the attorneys in your life who help their clients navigate a myriad of legal complexities.

A new website launched today, Attorney at Work, has the mission of delivering «one really good idea every day» for lawyers «who want help and inspiration building successful practices and balanced lives.»

These days, most lawyers are forever in search of that elusive work - life balance.

If you ask any senior lawyer in the City what the best day of their professional life has been, many — perhaps most — would say it was the day that they made partner.

An experienced personal injury lawyer can assist you in providing evidence of how your day - to - day life has been negatively affected, and the changes you must make going forward.

In this game, the players attend law school, and then hang their own shingle and deal with the ins and outs of managing a small law firm, all while juggling their cases and day - to - day lives as lawyers.

Young legal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cases.

But in the day - to - day life of your average lawyer, many of whom use and carry around laptops and other portable devices, Jaar says: «If you do nothing else, encrypt your hard drive.»

It's even harder if you're not the kind of person who normally encounters lawyers in their day - to - day life.

In my own consulting work with law firms, I often encourage them to create materials that highlight the real people who make up the firm and its clients — a description of a day in the life of an associate, a testimonial direct from a client, a bio that provides insight into the lawyer.

Whilst there is no such thing as a «typical day» our diary entries from our current trainees and newly qualified solicitors will provide you with a valuable insight into a day in the life of a junior lawyer.

After all, one of the hazards of life as a lawyer includes an opportunity for weight gain, what with long days spent sitting in the office, expense account lunches and extra meals and snacks consumed as fortification for an all - nighter.

Kathleen Paukert published 2014, 272 pages Many, if not most, lawyers today share a nagging sense of dissatisfaction in their day - to - day jobs, in their choice of career, in the balance between work and personal life.

openDemocracy published this article about how the residence test for legal aid would have denied justice to some of the most vulnerable in society and, finally, YLAL committee member Heather Thomas wrote for Legal Voice about a day in her life as a legal aid family lawyer.

When I working on Regis and Kelly (sometimes at Millionaire I helped out on sister productions), I was on set one day, working with the EP on the resolution of a live on - air contest in front of the audience, Kelly questioned my credentials, claiming I looked too young to be a lawyer.

It reminds us that, at the end of the day, we as lawyers can and do make a positive difference in the lives of real people.

And I can see the lawyers who are headed into the station of no more business as opposed to those headed to phase 2 and one major step closer to the lives they really want in which they are serving the clients they love without stress and not worrying about the day to day details of running their business.

That sort of inconspicuous computing can serve as a kind of model for «inconspicuous lawyering,» in which the lawyer is a permanent but largely unseen part of the client's day - to - day life.

This little excursion may be but another day in the life of a child support lawyer; but by what strange and wonderful political standards can it possibly be justified — especially where the poverty of children from single parent homes is at stake.

We have a licensed lawyer standing by 24 hours a day, seven days a week to take your call and to help you realize what options you may have moving forward if an accident has left you hurt or has claimed the life of someone you love.

42 teams from universities around the UK were given the opportunity to develop their practical skills by living a day in the life of a tech lawyer.

The presentation chronicles a day in the life of a family lawyer and her firm from client intake to collections using Rocket Matter legal practice management software.

That was when she realized lawyers have the capacity to profoundly impact the lives of every day Americans.

Criminal lawyers work every day under the mandate of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: «Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice».

It's a business tool, a way to keep up with colleagues, friends and families and a way to find distractions from the day to day pressures of a busy practice and an equally busy life serving the lawyers of Florida through The Florida Bar Board of Governors.

It should not come as surprise in this day and age of 24/7 work commitments that lawyers aren't the only ones craving time for their personal lives.

Maybe lawyers and paralegals don't encounter racism within the professions as much as members of the public do in their day - to - day lives?

For this day on which we remember the great loss of life on September 11, 2001, we offer you an inspiring story about a lawyer who has materially helped to save life, specifically the life of an infant in the Dominican Republic who needed surgery to correct a congenital heart defect.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

Students lived a day in the life of a tech lawyer last week at the inaugural Student Tech Law Challenge, held by the Society for Computers and Law at the University of Law's London campus.

We will get to you in five hours (at which time you will (a) probably catch the flu from someone else waiting, and (b) get a lousy will from a harried, distracted lawyer who would see you as an intrusion into her day rather than as the life - blood of her private practice).

Without exception, I found the courses taught by practitioners to be far more interesting — the focus wasn't on the principles derived from cases, or the progression of historical development of the law — but on real cases and the day to day issues that they faced — what kinds of cases come up most often, what procedural issues delay cases, and how to work around them, real life ethical issues of clients who lie, or don't pay, or harass their lawyers — which judge thinks (or decides) which way — how to help a client that won't do what they need to do to get their kids back (and not get too involved at the same time).

Same clients, same challenging work, better work life balance, control of my own destiny is a compelling pitch to some lawyers these days.

From my perspective (and I admit to canvassing none of my colleagues), the law society responsible for lawyers in Ontario seems far - removed from my day - to - day life as an in - house lawyer.

• The Top Ten Legal Technologies — What Every Solo and Small Law Firm Should Be Using • Collaborating and Communicating with Clients in a Web 2.0 World • Speech Recognition Software and Digital Dictation — Talk to Your Computer — it will listen • Moving to a Paperless Office — It's Easier Than You Think • Your Bottom Line and PCLaw — How it Can Make Your Life Easier and Your Firm More Profitable • Identity Theft and Fraud — Protecting Client, Firm and Personal Data in a Wired World • Adobe Acrobat and PDF Files — The New (and only) Standard for Sharing Information • Microsoft Office — Word, Excel and PowerPoint — Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most Out of These Essential Tools • Surviving and Thriving in Tough Economic Times — How to Buld and Maintain a Better Clientele and a Successful Practice • Productivity Tools to Help You Attain Work - Life Balance in Trying Times • Hiring, Evaluating, Retaining, Firing — Managing Human Resource Issues in Small Firm • E-Discovery for the Rest of Us — Dealing With Electronic Information on Smaller Matter • Email Emancipation — How to Cut the Time that Email Takes Out of Your Day • Mobile Lawyers and the Remote Office — Maintaining Productivity from Home, the Cottage, and Overseas • Succession Planning and Retirement — Preparing for the Day You Stop Lawyering

Lawyers love to hate the billable hour — our days and sadly our lives have been measured in terms of our yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily targets.

We may yet live to see the day when a comic regales an audience with his tales of woe regarding the airlines, big box stores and the like, and is summarily handed summonses by a phalanx of lawyers sitting ringside.

It was always our aim to improve the lives of both lawyers and their clients and I feel very proud that we achieve that goal every day.

And then I read of the many ways in which lawyers use this day to educate people in their communities about the importance of law in their day - to - day lives.