Sentences with phrase «do as a litigator»

But making time for the building blocks of your narrative is one of the most critical things you can do as a litigator — particularly when there is a very real risk of (or opportunity for) going to trial.

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«Knowing Coffey's background, as an aggressive litigator who took on powerful corporate interests, strike leaders asked Coffey to write to Dr. Pepper Snapple executives on their behalf, which Coffey promptly agreed to do.»

«You learn more from losing an election than you do from winning it and from losing that election this brilliant litigator Wendy Long, who served as a clerk on the United States Supreme Court for Justice [Clarence] Thomas, by golly she learned a lot and she is ready to go again and give Chuck Schumer a run for his money,» said GOP Chairman Ed Cox.

In the United Kingdom, patent attorneys have the same rights as lawyers do to practice patent law in specialized U.K. courts, and they may take an extra qualification to become patent attorney litigators and also conduct litigation in the U.K. High Court.

I once had the pleasure of watching Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein deliver a presentation (not an argument, but still), and he did this amazingly well, on the fly, as he was given issues to address by the audience.

Litigators don't get the same introductory blast of training, as «they expect you to learn a lot through experience.»

Foreign language skills go down well, as does a passion for travel, especially if you're a future litigator en route to DC: «There's so much travel involved, so people have to enjoy it.»

So it's best to do everything possible to present the client as likeable and sympathetic, as early as possible,» says Bob Knaier, a litigator who frequently writes and speaks about cognitive biases.

135 Nelson, supra note 126 at 775 found the transcripts of his interviews «littered» with the term «asshole», defined as an obnoxious, obstructive litigator; Gallagher, supra note 114 at 325 found on the other hand that it was important to not be perceived as a «jerk», or someone who «made it harder for everyone to do their job.»

CHOWN: I was just going to say that I remember, as a young litigator, the women in our group noticed that every time the men came back from court doing a motion, they would say, standing in the middle of the hall very loudly, «I was great.

For example, if you are a litigator, you probably don't want to be friends with any judges or experts, as it wouldn't look good to your opposing counsel.

CHOWN: And, as Linda says, I remember at law school in the trial advocacy course... if you wanted to be a litigator, you go to this course, and week after week, male litigators would come, and I would be saying, «I don't think that is a model.»

While the expectation for hard billable hours may vary between departments (litigators, for instance, typically don't bill as much as transactional lawyers) they are often the same across the firms for comparable departments.

Slaw reader Kate Odell Stanley M. Tick & Associates has kindly let me know that Westlaw.Canada's Litigator service does indeed make available «complete pleading documentation... extracted from the court files of significant cases in every Canadian common law jurisdiction,» as the Litigator online brochure has it.

The firm has also been working on developing a program where clients with in - house litigators send them to Osler for «boot camp» sessions on skills development in areas such as how to argue a motion, conducting a cross-examination or tips for drafting a pleading, for those who may not have done litigation before or have become rusty.

Worth noting up front: The NLJ does not claim these are the top litigators — it describes them as «some of the nation's top litigators» who are «at the top of their game.»

Jonathan H. Allen began his career as a commercial litigator specializing in commercial collections, and continues to do so.

I didn't believe Ms. Roberts as much, but she was such a brilliant litigator that I was leaning toward her direction,» said Stofferson, who works for the federal government.

I thought it was odd they brought in a litigator, and I started doing it annually because I enjoy talking to corporate lawyers or securities lawyers about what you see as a litigator.

So if you have a litigator who does mostly PI work, but some general litigation as well, he needs to know other possibilities, such as a one year limitation period for defamation or, as I just mentioned, three months for things like employment matters.

Too often, litigation ends up with all the parties feeling bruised and frustrated — no matter what the outcome — so becoming a «trusted adviser» as a litigator can be tougher than in other practice areas, and is all the more rewarding when it does happen.

My background was in corporate law as a corporate attorney and litigator, and then transitioned over to being a realtor and a real estate attorney at the same time because it allowed me a little bit of more of an entrepreneurial feel where I can actually do what I want to do.

Not only do we all keep current with both state and federal criminal law; we have well - earned reputations as aggressive and successful litigators.

Namely, if we, as litigators and litigation consultants, do our jobs correctly, the end product — whether it be a presentation to a jury or to the government — should be simple.

Litigators generally do not have project management skills (as you say) and they are also not even oriented to the basic concept of planning.

I'm not even sure it applies to civil litigators, who don't tend to hang around the courthouse to the same extent as criminal defense lawyers.

One thing we've seen as we lecture is that litigators buy the iPad and only then ask, «How do I use it?»

But that doesn't capture the role of most business lawyers, or indeed litigators as counsellors, when they're not in court.

Even my colleague, Atrisha Lewis, in her article the Top 10 Habits of a Leading Litigator, identifies some of the most important traits for a litigator as: being able to build relationships, act civilly and «be happy, enjoy what you do and stick with iLitigator, identifies some of the most important traits for a litigator as: being able to build relationships, act civilly and «be happy, enjoy what you do and stick with ilitigator as: being able to build relationships, act civilly and «be happy, enjoy what you do and stick with it.»

And of those who do, not all of them decide to go to work at a large firm as a litigator — and somehow survive to tell the tale.

Litigators will often tell us that this step was critical to their success as it was the first time they had to try to convince someone of the merits of the case, and we helped them do this much earlier than they would have naturally done.

Although Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is better known for its power prowess, the firm does house a capable regulatory practice on the oil and gas side, with litigator Randall Block QC regarded as a market leader.

Boehmert & Boehmert's Christian Appelt is a patent attorney who represented Microsoft against Motorola Mobility (offensively and defensively) in Mannheim, as did Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Professor Peter Chrocziel, a patent litigator and antitrust expert.

All kidding aside, I felt this industry would be a good one for me given my law school and Litigation Paralegal background inasmuch as I understood what the Litigators and their Teams were trying to accomplish (since I'd been there, done that).

I don't do a whole lot of litigation, so I am not as familiar with all the products that litigators use for document review or trial presentations.

Kendall is a litigator, and he represented Paramount in their successful legal battle against a group of Wall Street investors who claimed they didn't see returns on their investments in films such as Mean Girls.

The latter have a docket for work distribution and are supervised by one partner, whereas litigators operate in «teams that come and go as cases do.»

As his case results show, Attorney Glotzer is a seasoned negotiator, investigator and litigator who is dedicated to finding justice for his clients and will do whatever is necessary under the law, including going to trial, if it is in his clients» best interests.

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Preface: When I (Eugene) was a younger laywer (Parlee Irving Henning Mustard and Rodney, as it then was, Edmonton; then Honeywell Wotherspoon as it also was, Ottawa) I did, to speak plainly, a crapola worth of Affidavits of Documents — came a time that's what I thought all litigators did.

I suspect that what this does is to make the benchers» composition unrepresentative of the profession as a whole: older, more likely to be male, from smaller towns, dominated by litigators, rather than those with general practice backgrounds.

The view of the committee is that sending hearings in the lower court are remunerated as part of the litigator's graduated fee, and do not fall to be paid from the advocates» graduated fee.

She did not show up when I searched for litigators on the CSM website, but she is most definitely a litigatrix (and is identified in her Cravath bio as a litigation partner as well as chair of the antitrust practice).

I note that during the recession, many litigators rose to the top as managing partners because they had business and corporate did not.

«Litigators don't intuitively see themselves as positively influencing customer experience,» says Elharrar.

Tell your students and younger associates that they can't use the subscription databases until AFTER they've read the relevant summary in (1) the leading texts (2) asked — where that facility exists — somebody who should know if the same question was reaserched within recent memory and where the memo is; (3) consulted a leading treatise such as the CEDs even if only for the case law; (4) asked somebody one or two years ahead of them if they know the most recent case (s), (5) searched CanLII, the other LIIs etc, (6) for litigators, looked at the subject matter indicies for the Advocates» Quarterly and the Supreme Court of Canada law review and (7) signed a written declaration that they did (1) through (6), as required, properly.

«I have difficulty seeing how [Routhier] can negotiate a file with his litigator as mayor while pleading against his own administration,» Rino Soucy, a partner with Montreal's Dufresne Hébert Comeau and co-author of a book on ethical and professional conduct for municipal politicians and employees, told La Presse (although he did not return calls from Canadian Lawyer).

As a litigator, you will have to be experienced at doing research and interacting with many different people.

Turow doesn't believe any litigator starting out today could have it as good as he did.

As for litigators, I don't really know.