Sentences with phrase «even plaintiff attorneys»

Penalties can include double damages and even plaintiff attorneys can be liable, Frank Qesada, an attorney with MSP Recovery, a Miami law firm that has filed numerous national class actions on behalf of private Medicare providers, told Forbes.

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Even so, the attorney said the phrase «make this go away» could just as likely be interpreted as direction to make amends with Cater, rather than conspiracy to deprive someone's rights, as the plaintiff alleges.

The plaintiffs» attorney, George Carpinello of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, said Tuesday evening he would «absolutely» appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — the same venue where he previously won a suit that blocked the State Liquor Authority from blocking the sale and marketing of Bad Frog Beer because its label depicted an amphibian giving the middle - finger salute.

Taking audience questions about American Violet at the Telluride film festival, she alleged that even after district attorney John Paschall settled out of court with her and the other plaintiffs in an ACLU suit, he enforced an informal employment blacklist against her in her hometown of Hearne, Texas.

The state education commissioner acknowledges the achievement gap, as does the attorney general and even Gov. Dannel Malloy, who went from plaintiff in the CCJEF lawsuit when he was mayor of Stamford to defendant in the case when he became governor in 2011.

The matter was delayed because the temporary restraining order only applied to the School Board employees, sending the plaintiff's attorney scrambling to quickly sue dozens of independent charter boards, even though he wasn't convinced it was necessary.

Here's what I've learned: A) when the deposition includes a buyer or seller vs. a Realtor, from day one, the Realtor is usually already way behind in the eyes of the court, B) even if «Mother Theresa» wrote the real estate contract, a good attorney for the plaintiff can generally tear it and her to bits... and that usually comes from the buyer or seller saying, «I don't remember «that» (whatever «that» is) being explained to me»... which brings us to «short sales» and all that go with them and what will surely follow.

Dave Anderson, one of the authors, said that the report might «provide fodder» to those such as state attorneys general or private plaintiffs taking legal steps to force the industry to more fully describe the risks of climate change to shareholders, or even to compensate for damages that ensued from emissions.

However, even in the categories where jurors come close to rating both sides equally, the plaintiff attorneys are still not rated as low as the defense attorneys when the verdict is not returned in their favor and they are rated significantly higher than the defense attorneys when the verdict is returned in their favor.

«I learn about the plaintiff, I learn about the plaintiff's strategy, even about the attorneys» strategy,» Tsay said.

Now, as our Delray Beach personal injury lawyers know, while people can be held responsible for personal injuries that took place on their property even if they had little or nothing to do with actually causing the injury, the plaintiff's attorneys in this case successfully argued that the restaurant operator actually had a hand in causing the tragic death.

The Wiretap Act authorizes both criminal and civil suits — and the civil suits provide attorney's fees, statutory damages, and even the possibility of punitive damages for victorious plaintiffs.»»

Recently, the Hawaii Supreme Court reversed a lower court's judgment in favor of a car accident defendant whose attorneys repeatedly raised the question of a plaintiff's «motive» for filing the claim in the first place, repeatedly insinuating — despite a lack of conviction or even formal accusation — that plaintiff had committed workers» compensation insurance fraud.

It takes a combination of the right plaintiff and the right set of facts and even then you could get defensed,» said attorney Barry Zlotowicz.

Oh, and even though the plaintiff was technically challenging the Florida bar's attorney advertising rules as they were applied in this case, the judge invalidated the regulations in their entirety.

Plaintiff employee eventually obtained recovery of $ 43,654.50 in an unpaid commission dispute even though he at one point was willing to accept $ 75,000 to settle which included a $ 30,000 component to reimburse his attorney for fees under a contingency agreement.

But even most plaintiffs» attorneys are starting to charge a higher contingency percentage in their cases, reducing clients» recovery.

These two recent and historic verdicts illustrate the caliber of representation and ability The Cochran Firm, D.C.'s attorneys bring to the cases they take on when they represent injured victims and their families in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, even in jurisdictions that are traditionally thought to be unreceptive to the claims of injured plaintiffs.

This jaded view ignores the history of massive plaintiffs» bar abuses that stack the deck in favor of a select group of opportunistic plaintiffs» attorneys, while shortchanging taxpayers, consumers, and sometimes even the supposed victims these attorneys allege to represent.

But even in a case where they are sometimes plaintiffs, like custody, an attorney can actually cause a * decrease * in filings by explaining to a parent exactly what they need to do to regain custody of their children and work with them to accomplish those goals, rather than the parent filing loads of duplicate motions to modify custody, as they often do when pro se.

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Jones v. Flowers, 373 Ark. 213 (Ark. 2008)(established, on remand from a U.S. Supreme Court victory in a constitutional challenge to state tax foreclosure procedures, that attorney's fees may be recovered under federal civil rights law even when the plaintiff's original complaint did not cite the federal statute)(briefed, co-counsel)

Here's what I've learned: A) when the deposition includes a buyer or seller vs. a Realtor, from day one, the Realtor is usually already way behind in the eyes of the court, B) even if «Mother Theresa» wrote the real estate contract, a good attorney for the plaintiff can generally tear it and her to bits... and that usually comes from the buyer or seller saying, «I don't remember «that» (whatever «that» is) being explained to me»... which brings us to «short sales» and all that go with them and what will surely follow.

Our goal is get a plaintiff and their attorney to drop suit before it is even filed.