Sentences with phrase «firm upper hand»

This undoubtedly gives our firm the upper hand when defending DWI and Refusal charges.

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

Not exact matches

According to real - estate firm Zillow, sellers on the West Coast have the upper hand, while out East, the equation is reversed.

With your hand on your upper chest near your collarbone, begin to massage toward the nipple with your palm using firm but gentle circular strokes.

So far, it seems that users have the upper hand: the giant firm has repeatedly introduced services only to pull them back again.

The less than magical sequel to her enchanting NANNY MCPHEE is at once a story of British stiff upper lips during the Blitz, a bizarrely cartoonish tale of a gambler without the means to pay off his debt to an boldly blonde pair of collectors, a bland story of misbehaving children in need of Nanny McPhee's firm hand, and a brief diversion into the Expressionist Cinema of the Weimar Republic with father and son at odds.

As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»

Lawyers in smaller firms are adept at using the Web to give themselves the upper hand.

In addition our firm's other partner and accomplished lawyer, J.D. Smith, has extensive experience working as an insurance adjuster, giving him the upper hand when negotiating positive settlements against manipulative insurance providers.

But in this new market — one in which legal services providers will multiply, personnel and procedures will make or break organizations, and buyers will hold an equal or upper hand to sellers — law firms must create strategies that:

American firms at the higher end of the market, for example, appear to have gained an upper hand against their UK counterparts in terms of profitability and their capacity to attract and retain top talent.

At Stratos Legal, our court reporters are up to speed with the latest technology in order to provide firms with an upper hand throughout trial prep.

And legal assistance groups, realizing that they have the upper hand, are pumping law firms for contributions.

In those situations (far more common in larger firms than in smaller or sole practices), the billable hour is rife with the potential for abuse by the lawyer, who holds the upper hand in an opaque, awkward relationship.