Sentences with phrase «few legal terms»

Here are a few legal terms to avoid when speaking to jurors.

Not exact matches

With a few exceptions, our business community is behind the curve in terms of taking advantage of Belt and Road opportunities — opportunities that extend well beyond physical infrastructure to the development of key social infrastructure projects, including education and the provision of medical, legal, financial, and other social and professional services.

Over the course of a few months, there would be legal wrangling, fines, and possibly jail terms for protesters and a few stalwart leaders who refuse to pay.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

A legal system is generalized, Parsons says, to the degree it is «an integrated system of universalistic norms, applicable to the society as a whole rather than to a few functional or segmental sectors, highly generalized in terms of principles and standards, and relatively independent of both the religious agencies that legitimize the normative order of the society and vested interest groups in the operative sector, particularly in government.

But few of the «priority» investors — believed to include Legal & General, Threadneedle, BlackRock, and Fidelity — have been as long - term in their approach as Mr Cable had hoped.

The plan is to keep the SportWagen TDI in our long - term fleet for a few years, assuming VW doesn't buy back and scrap our car if a fix to make it emissions - legal doesn't pan out.

My guess is that very few people would challenge them and, effectively, they will go along with the changes of terms even * if * there are any legal issues for Chase.

By starting off every billing period with a legal assessment that provides the company with a clear understanding of its upcoming legal needs for the next few months, The Food Law Firm is able to establish long - term working relationships with its clients.

A major attraction of [this reform strategy] is that, compared to many other legal reform strategies, it may require fewer government or donor expenditures, at least in the medium - to long - term.

You'd be hard pressed, though, to prove that with a few twists here and there a list wasn't arrived at independently — and, more to the point, perhaps, these are such broad terms and so basic to legal work and promulgation no one should be able to stand in the way of their free use.

The plaintiff had been advised of his lay - off, only to be told a few days later that the company had mistakenly believed it had a legal right to carry out the lay - off, and then offered him his employment back on similar terms.

The article is interesting in terms of putting jury ethics in terms of legal theory, but I do find it lacks a few things and makes one serious mistake.

He notes that even if growth in the legal market stayed flat over the next few years, «about 91 percent of the class of 2016 will find long - term, full - time work, compared with about 72 percent last year.»

This app includes a legal dictionary, but so few terms are included that I doubt most attorneys would consider it very useful, and it is certainly no competition for the other legal dictionary apps in the App Store.

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

We do have to realize that Access to Justice is a blanket term for what are really a series of vertical markets that are silo - ed by legal subject area, jurisdiction, and political will (to name a few).

It's been a few months since I've posted to Slaw (tsk, tsk) so I thought I'd try and redeem myself and share two legal research wikis that I've created using PBWiki, for two courses I'm teaching this term.

«With European law increasingly imposing higher standards in terms of clarity and accessibility of legal information, in data privacy and consumer protection to name only a few areas, we believe the market for Legal Design is at least EEA - wide.&rlegal information, in data privacy and consumer protection to name only a few areas, we believe the market for Legal Design is at least EEA - wide.&rLegal Design is at least EEA - wide.»

There are a few different terms that are in use around the country that fall under the umbrella of what you could consider flexible legal staffing.

Plenty «talk the talk» but few think and deal with their legal information challenges in terms of enabling software such as databases, outliners and other tools that protect the lawyers themselves from complexity, and extend their capabilities.

L. Rev. 887, 894 - 95 (2002)(noting that relatively few law schools offered significant formal instruction in legal writing until the 1980s); Smith, supra note 4, at 22 (2004)(noting that many law schools did not start hiring full - time, long - term professionals to teach legal writing until around 2000); Jo Anne Durako, A Snapshot of Legal Writing Programs at the Millennium, 6legal writing until the 1980s); Smith, supra note 4, at 22 (2004)(noting that many law schools did not start hiring full - time, long - term professionals to teach legal writing until around 2000); Jo Anne Durako, A Snapshot of Legal Writing Programs at the Millennium, 6legal writing until around 2000); Jo Anne Durako, A Snapshot of Legal Writing Programs at the Millennium, 6Legal Writing Programs at the Millennium, 6 Leg.

But let's look this some more: My research has shown that «non legacy» legal sites, that are just a few years old, that never ranked for anything, with almost 100 % of their links from the Findlaw Blog Network, are ranking number one on the first page of Google, for terms like «Los Angeles personal injury attorney.»

Thanks for weighing in, Mike Quite a few legal marketing friends and colleagues have said a similar thing — that a little bit of advance notice would have been nice, and perhaps a training webinar / conference call, ahead of the lawyer outreach, so they are one step ahead in terms of being able to advise internally.

Hearing the complaints about this course gave me a new respect for the Legal Research and Writing instructors who have the courage to teach a course that few students grasp the long - term importance of or even have the courtesy to pretend that they can stand.

The hard truth is that a lot of legal work doesn't really vary that much from firm to firm, in terms of function and quality; there are very few legal tasks that only one firm can offer to an acceptable degree of competence, let alone excellence.

However, at a UCLA conference which took place last weekend, Kathleen Breitman promised to «[go] rogue in the next few weeks» and release the «tezzies» tokens (XTZ) on their own terms, despite legal troubles.

New Hampshire has joined the ranks of a few other states that no longer use the term «custody» to describe the legal responsibilities of parents.

In multifamily property management, for instance, the volume of transactions is higher, there is a higher turnover rate among tenants (67 % turnover every year), shorter lease terms and fewer legal recourses in case someone stops paying rent.