Sentences with phrase «drafted by lawyers»

Agreements reached in the collaborative process are legally binding and drafted by lawyers.

When there is agreement, a document is drafted by the lawyers, and reviewed and edited by you both until everyone is satisfied.

In particular, he observed that the subscription agreement, drafted by lawyers representing both sides, was silent on the distribution strategy.

To give those present a sense of the dysfunction of mainstream contract prose, I opened the proceedings by critiquing a sentence from a contract drafted by lawyers at the London office of one of the UK «Magic Circle» law firms.

2) Privacy policies and terms of services for websites, businesses and governmental entities are more than likely drafted by lawyers, paid to cover all the bases in terms of privacy, liability and as such are legally water - tight (as much as possible) to protect both the entity and the user, like you.

The most lucrative estates files we ever open are the ones featuring wills that were prepared without lawyers (or drafted by lawyers who were dabbling in wills or who swallowed the canard that wills are simple).

When there is agreement, a document is drafted by the lawyers, and reviewed and edited by you both until everyone is satisfied.

Release documents are drafted by lawyers and for lawyers.

In addition, the judgement was critical of Mr Smith's contract which, though clearly drafted by lawyers, was «not fully thought through».

We should be more worried about people attempting to make money from bad web forms drafted by lawyers who don't know what they are talking about.

For example, a bill introduced into the legislature in September 2014 proposing state compensation for Russian citizens «unjustly» affected by the decisions of foreign courts was, although formally sponsored by Duma deputy Vladimir Ponevezhskii, actually drafted by lawyers from the State Legal Directorate — a unit within the Presidential Administration.

Large retailers met with politicians and regulators in Canberra yesterday - a bit of media on this: Eli Greenblat, «Retailers lay down deregulation gauntlet» (The Australian, 28 October 2014), Sue Mitchell and Matthew Knott, «Australian National Retailers Association condemns Harper review's «dangerous» competition law shake - up» (SMH, 27 October 2014) and Joanna Heath, «Retailers slam Harper change «drafted by lawyers» (The Australian Financial Review, 27 October 2014 (paper version 28 October 2014, page 9)-RRB-

According to Bland, forced arbitration clauses are generally enforceable and enforced, unless the terms drafted by the lawyers somehow contain an error.

Therefore, it's prudent to have the release drafted by a lawyer who's familiar with employment law.

Legally, a business contract does not have to be drafted by a lawyer in order to be admissible in court.

Contracts don't have to be drafted by a lawyer in some situations, but it's always a good idea.

It is generally recommended to have your separation agreement drafted by a lawyer, though this is not a rule and will not inherently impact the contract's enforceability.

Then again, there are likely even more stories of messes stemming from documents that were poorly drafted by a lawyer.

Once the terms are agreed upon, they are incorporated into an Agreement to be drafted by a lawyer.

Ideally, it is best to have a separation agreement drafted by a lawyer.

Otherwise, if one side had a contract drafted by a lawyer and the other side didn't, the contract would be construed in favor of the unrepresented party in cases of ambiguity.

The agreement can be drafted by a lawyer, mediator or legal service provider.

Certainly, there is often some paperwork that is simply best drafted by a lawyer (this includes highly specialized Orders that transfer certain retirement benefits from one spouse to the other, for example), but most parties are able to complete the ordinary forms required in the divorce process.

Not exact matches

Have a lawyer look over any agreement drafted by the parent company.

(If drafted by management lawyers, as they are now, these policies are often management - friendly and restrict the board unnecessarily.)

A Formal Trust requires the drafting of highly specialized legal documentation created by a lawyer.

There has been plenty of media on the Harper Review's draft report released last Monday - including two items in today's AFR: Kate Walsh, «Lawyers see green light for mergers in Harper review» (The Australian Financial Review, 30 September 2014, page 15) and an opinion piece by former Competition Minister, Craig Emerson: «There are ill - effects in an effects test» (The Australian Financial Review, 30 September 2014, p 58).

Buoyed by a substantial offer from the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League — reported in the week leading up to the draft to be a two - year, $ 6 million deal — Ismail's bevy of agents, lawyers and advisers, a.k.a. Team Rocket, proceeded to price him out of the NFL.

In fact, the ECHR was proposed and negotiated for strongly by the UK, drafted mainly by British lawyers and adopted by the Council of Europe (a council first proposed by Winston Churchill during World War II and established in 1949).

that NI executives urged H&L to give them a clean bill of health in the strongest possible terms, that earlier draft letters by H&L were rejected by NI and that lawyers on both sides seemed to struggle to find language that said the review had found no evidence of wrongdoing.

My lawyers are drafting a petition for me and hopefully by Monday I am going to petition the AG and I hope the Attorney General will act with speed.

It was drafted by British lawyers after the second world war to protect the values we fought the war for.

Taub testified that, through his lawyer, he requested a number of key changes to the draft initially sent over by Bharara's office.

County Court Judge Walter Hafner Jr. blocked Fitzpatrick's subpoena for emails, notes, drafts and other communications produced by Syracuse city lawyers, saying the DA made «no showing» that the documents were part of any crime or fraud.

[26] He also claimed that Government lawyers had not forced the judiciary to water down criticism of MI5, despite an earlier, draft ruling by Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a «culture of suppression» that undermined government assurances about its conduct.

According to a draft text from the chairman of the negotiators, Rudiger Wolfrum, an environment lawyer at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelburg, this will «compel operators to exercise care [of] the Antarctic environment by making them financially responsible for environmental damage they cause».

The CEA memo was drafted by the union's Member Legal Services lawyers and released following the CEA's recent Representatives Assembly meeting.

The famously reclusive Lee was ushered back into the spotlight in July 2015 after the controversial announcement that, after 55 years of literary hiatus, Lee would be publishing Go Set a Watchman, an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird that had been rediscovered by Lee's lawyer in 2014.

By June, 2015, it was clear to me that CGSB intended to put out for its mandatory public review stage, a draft standard that had been very improperly created and contained misstatements of law due to the re-writing of the legal section because of CGSB's declared «right of last edit,» i.e., editing without providing an opportunity for the lawyer - drafters of the legal section to review the results of such «last edit.»

No attention was paid to our complaints, including complaints that lawyers can not do their work in the very simplistic way required, i.e., drafting by putting very briefly worded comments in the narrow columns of an on - line template page.

As recently reported by ABA Journal, The Commission issued a draft white paper (PDF) concluding that there is not a need for any adjustment in the rules of professional conduct for lawyers relating to ALF.

In fairness to the committee, they've decided to have a company that manages one of the member's websites, which is run by a lawyer, review the proposed draft advisory opinion.

Obviously, explaining the content of said documents is part of the role played by their legal counsel, but since more than 60 % of litigants are not represented by a lawyer, most individuals are asked to read and / or draft legal documents that they can not begin to understand.

The improper procedure imposed by CGSB caused me as the Chair, and the other senior lawyer specialized in the use of records as evidence, Martin Felsky, [2] to resign from the CGSB committee that drafted what is now this National Standard of Canada: Electronic Records as Documentary Evidence CAN / CGSB -72.34-2017 («72.34 - 2017,» as of March 1, 2017, pdf.).

One week and three posts into its existence, the blog, authored by Kingsley Martin, president of kiiac LLC, has gathered some good information, and raised some interesting questions, bearing on the prospects of lawyers using technology to automate drafting of contracts and other documents.

And because putting one's name to a document means taking responsibility, any lawyer publishing content under their name written by somebody else would be well - advised to review the draft before publication for errors, diction, syntax, etc., and make appropriate edits.

Inspired by a odd contract phrase that has suddenly popped up in a few places, the WSJ had an interesting story yesterday on the lengths to which lawyers are willing to go to be thorough in the agreements they draft.

There is considerable doubt that the Sixth Amendment itself, as originally drafted by the Framers of the Bill of Rights, contemplated any guarantee other than the right of an accused in a criminal prosecution in a federal court to employ a lawyer to assist in his defense.

A motion filed jointly on Friday by the Barreau du Québec and the Montreal Bar, asking the Superior Court of Quebec to issue a declaratory judgment that all of the province's laws, regulations and decrees are illegal because they were drafted and adopted in French only, has stunned politicians, lawyers and legal pundits the province.

By processing this enriched data, lawyers can draw conclusions about opposing counsel, judges, litigation parties, and contract drafts in order to reveal insights that were not previously knowable.