Sentences with phrase «face than lawyer»

When conflicts arise, principal - teacher - parent - student relationships are more likely to be face - to - face than lawyer - to - lawyer.

Not exact matches

It also faces more than 4,300 claims for compensation from people who said they suffered injuries related to the faulty switches or from relatives of those killed in related accidents, the lawyer overseeing the program has said.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs said more than 90 former and current Google employees admitted to facing discrimination, according to The Wall Street Journal.

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

The lawyer of this guy is in bad shape hiding some thing that is bigger than him... the issue is bigger than just a killing the issue is bigger than you imagine... and can read that on the face of the lawyer answering to media questions....

Rep. Chris Collins, who is facing an ethics investigation stemming from his involvement in a struggling Australian biotech firm, spent more money on lawyers in the past three months than he raised for his re-election campaign.

The 42 - page sentencing memorandum comes after requests by defense lawyers that the two be sentenced to community service, rather than face jail time.

Fresh faced, wearing metal - rimmed glasses and a silky black dress cinched at the waist, she resembles more a neighborhood volunteer than a politician — an identity born out of her upbringing in the Glen Oaks section of Eastern Queens, where she was raised by a father who was a labor organizer and a mother who was a tenant lawyer.

In the Democratic primary in that district, which is more than half Hispanic, Mr. Sabini faced two Hispanic opponents, Nestor H. Diaz, a lawyer, and Charles Castor, a former police officer and aide to Councilman Hiram Monserrate.

Once these producers have many thousands of customers, to a population facing «unaffordable lawyers» services,» law society prosecutions of them for the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) take on the very unpopular appearance of a strategy to eliminate a market competitor rather than protecting the public from faulty service providers.

Technology, however, evolves more quickly than the law, and Groupon has left lawyers wondering if they will face ethics violations for advertising and selling services on the site.

It is truer today than ever before: we live in a global economy, so whether or not a young lawyer intends to practice international law, there is a strong likelihood that, throughout the course of her career, she will face matters of international significance or, at minimum, cases that require some knowledge of the international legal landscape.

While lawyers from Western and Atlantic Canada have to deal with about 125 changes per year to their consolidated statutes in order to stay current, those in Ontario and Quebec are faced with more than 300 changes yearly.

Defense lawyer Mark S. Arisohn argued for leniency, saying jurors seemed sympathetic to his client and believed he would face months rather than years in prison.

This maybe goes hand - in - hand with what you're saying about the problem with mentorship, because while I do think that experienced lawyers have so much advice to give, I think that the world facing new lawyers and what their practices are going to look like are quite different than what those more experienced lawyers, what their trajectory their career has taken.

Vancouver lawyer John Briner has bought Palkowski & Co., the legal practice of Robert Palkowski, who ran afoul of the Law Society of British Columbia last year and agreed to resign rather than face a hearing for serious allegations of professional misconduct.

If they charge your security deposit and you don't think you owe it, you would have to sue them for a return of the part of your security deposit you don't owe, knowing that you face a risk of paying their legal fees if you lose, but will get your fees if you hire a lawyer and win (caveat: there are more nuances to fee shifting in the U.K. courts than I spell out here which are rather technical).

Rather than hear from one speaker for an hour, the participants got to hear and learn from a number of people, all their peers and all lawyers who had faced and addressed these issues in their own practices.

More so than any program I've participated in before, it delved substantively into the nitty - gritty issues that businesses — and their in - house lawyers — face in this brave new world.

Though the lawsuit against Avvo apparently relates to downgrading of lawyers by the Web site itself rather than commentors, because Avvo invites lawyer and client testimonials, it could also face lawsuits by attorneys upset about negative comments.

In her groundbreaking 1993 report «Touchstones for Change», Canada's first female Supreme Court justice Bertha Wilson stressed the difficulties faced by women lawyers with children, urging the profession to measure a lawyer's performance by standards other than hours billed.

Defence lawyers are all too aware of the real jeopardy faced by individuals who, though factually innocent, find themselves charged upon little more than a bare assertion.

The work of judges outside, as well as inside the courtroom, is almost always more time - consuming in proceedings involving unrepresented parties than in ones in which everyone has a lawyer — and the difficulties judges face are compounded if one or more of the parties is also dealing with mental health or other challenges.

However, the firms acknowledge they face many challenges, with compliance the number one concern for more than three - quarters of the 170 lawyers interviewed.

Therefore, given that lawyers with more than 6 years PQE are faced with «fewer roles available commensurate with experience», it's important not to leave it too long if you think an in - house position is the right direction for you.

Some lawyers would rather face a root canal than a holiday party.

The other services listed above are business - facing, so they tend to be used by lawyers to facilitate workflow, but their long - term effect is no less disruptive, and this is where I see a greater threat than self - help divorce, simple wills, and NDAs.

This is a need shared by family lawyers, personal injury lawyers, criminal lawyers, etc. and which is more narrow than the broader compliance requirements companies face.

There are a number of trends currently facing the legal profession (increased client sophistication, fee pressures, stagnant growth, the number of lawyers growing at a faster rate than the general population, succession planning needs and an increased emphasis on non-traditional skills — see the CBA Futures Report for a more fulsome list) that make the traditional practice model difficult (impossible?)

Not being a practicing lawyer, I've required more than a moment to clue into the depth and difficulty of the problems facing law firms and their clients as a result of all of the current forms of electronic data, ranging from emails to material on web sites, or blogs for that matter.

Our lawyers understand better than most the commercial opportunities and the challenges that the owners of farms and rural businesses, country houses and landed estates face.

originally published by The Lawyers Weekly By some estimates, any given billion - dollar corporation faces more than 500 lawsuits every year.

Perlman, however, deliberately turns attention away from alternative structures (as well as, without expressly mentioning them, the general concepts of entity regulation and compliance - based / proactive regulation) in favor of a focus on the provision of legal services by individuals (rather than entities) who are not lawyers and by existing legal service providers, notably «consumer facing automated document assembly companies.»

When more than two dozen banks represented by over a dozen top law firms from throughout the country faced a critical hearing involving billions of dollars in the Court of Federal Claims, they chose three lawyers for oral argument: a partner from a large national law firm, Harvard Professor Lawrence Tribe, and Dan Goldstein of Brown, Goldstein & Levy.

Self - represented litigants face greater demands, doing the work of a lawyer in their case, than they face in their employment outside of court.

The problem here is that the majority of the issues facing the profession identified above largely affect lawyers much younger than that.

And as for the sharp young lawyers who might yet become judges, I can think of few more stimulating challenges to raise their game than facing a retired judge across a courtroom.

Though Granat's firm insists that it is more than a mere «legal forms website» (see this chart), in his ABA presentation, he noted the competition that lawyers, mainly solo practitioners, are facing from companies such as Robert Shapiro's Legal Zoom.

Clifford Chance followed the lead of magic circle rivals Linklaters and Allen & Overy by rolling in base pay and bonuses for junior lawyers to create a package that, while on the face of it is only # 1,000 more than the maximum available last year, guarantees virtually all of its NQ lawyers a salary of # 85,000.

Lawyers in private practice and in - house will be now be dealing with issues and situations they have never faced before — and none more so than general counsel (GC).

In his article, Ambrogi focuses on the challenges faced by small firms (firms fewer than 30 lawyers) and how they are addressing those challenges.

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Law firms whose economic model is based on maximizing billable hours rather than efficiency, who limit (or shrink) the number of partners in order to maximize profits per partner, and who equate «face time» with commitment and loyalty, scoff at younger lawyers as being naïve and unrealistic.

One of the biggest criticisms made by plaintiff ICBC injury claims lawyers was that the old Rule 37 was unfair to plaintiffs as a person injured in a car accident was always in a worse financial position to face the consequences of losing at trial than ICBC.

Lawyers, not unlike their forbears in other industries facing massive upheaval, tend to do more of what they know rather than proactively seek change, and as a result simple techniques to improve client satisfaction and retention — efforts that in other industries are generally called «sales» — are discarded as unseemly or unnecessary for educated professionals to take on.

It is manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing «and / or,» that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus - faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of some one too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients.

In Canada, the issue of violence against lawyers has received little attention yet available research and anecdotal evidence suggest that many law professionals face a higher - than - average risk of work - related violence and threats.

Yet, I've found the resource I often turn to when faced with an unfamiliar concept or difficult situation is my peers — those lawyers not much further along than myself.

In civil cases, it is generally assumed that defendants and their lawyers, facing the limited stakes that they do, will comply with court orders and will cooperate in providing testimony and documents rather than upping the stakes to criminal obstruction of justice charges and civil spoilation of evidence charges.

On its face, the case is about whether Deloitte misclassified the lawyers as independent contractors rather than employees and so wrongfully deprived them of statutory overtime, vacation and holiday pay.