Sentences with phrase «first lawyer in his case»

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Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

Once the family broke the gag order and got some national coverage there was huge outcry from first amendment lawyers about the illegality of that order, and also others speaking out about having been legally gagged in court cases with big power differential.

Rather than go directly to lawyer in all these cases, most of them aim to work things out in a nonadversarial manner first.

But at the resumed hearing on Tuesday, Metuh's lawyer, Etiaba, insisted that Metuh still wanted Jonathan to first testify before deciding on whether or not he would personally testify in the case.

U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe, who presided over Bruno's first trial, imposed a gag order on the lawyers, saying: «This case is going to get tried in the courtroom, not the press.

The government's lawyers are due to lay out their argument in more detail tomorrow but at an initial hearing earlier this month, they claimed that a first tier tribunal only has the power to identify that legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act - not to rule on a case on that basis.

There is also some input from Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame on the legal and political history of the first petitioner in the case, Nana Akufo - Addo while lawyer, Phyllis Christian, highlights other social dimensions which factored into the petition.

After signing the confession the children go to court, and in many cases, this will be the first time they see their lawyer.

As The Times Union first reported today, lawyers for former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno filed a slew of documents in federal court seeking to dismiss the second indictment of public corruption charges calling the new case «fatally flawed.»

The letters, dated 18 and 19 January, were written for the governor by his lawyer, Mahmud Magaji (SAN), wherein Yari threatened to sue the publications for defamation, in which he would demand N100 billion (in the case of the first publication) and N10 billion (against the second publication) should they fail to retract the publication and tender apology within seven days.

This film, their first together, was Ford's equally poetic and significant follow - up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president - to - be, a novice lawyer struggling with an incendiary murder case.

Slipping during a yoga class, Lee pulls his groin, which puts him in a wheelchair the first time he properly meets Alex (Alexander), a lawyer who specializes in immigration cases.

Ryan Reynolds is not the first actor who might come to mind to play her real - life lawyer, Randy Schoenberg (grandson of composer Arnold) but he does a creditable job as the young attorney and family friend who becomes as driven and obsessed as his client — possibly even more so — in pursuing this case.

Redmayne will play famed lawyer Paul Cravath, in his first major career - making case.

But the union and other supporters of the lawsuit have made no such claim, and Lefkowitz reminded the court that lawyers for the plaintiffs had a chance to make those claims when the case was first heard in circuit court, but declined to do so.

The case was also one of many firsts, as Goodman notes, including the first presence of a black lawyer in a supreme court.

I first went to Alabama in 1997 to work on a civil rights case (I am also a lawyer) and since then have traveled throughout the state, including Talladega, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile.

And here's part of the opening statement by the tobacco lawyers in Cipollone v. Liggett, the first case to award damages to a smoker:

The lawyers hopped across the technicalities like frogs on so many lily pads, from potentially conflicting amendments that first slipped into the law when it was amended in 1990, to a footnote to the Supreme Court's 2011 decision in another climate case, American Electric Power v. Connecticut.

He notes that 50 years ago, lawyers were frequently in court; his first case was worth $ 25 but he fought it out before a judge.

PETA's lawyer said a hearing held in the case this week was a «historic day» as it was the «the first time a court considered the question of whether animals can be enslaved,» U-T San Diego reports (via How Appealing).

Whenever I get a new machine, the first thing I do is install Word and connect my highly personalized Normal.dotx, complete with customized styles (Microsoft installations should include a style set for legal writers, incorporating the excellent advice in Typography for Lawyers), keyboard - shortcut - enabled macros (e.g., homemade wordiness macro [similar to WordRake], replace two spaces with one, sentence case, title case), and keyboard shortcut mapping (e.g., section symbol; paragraph symbol; highlighting in yellow, green, and red).

Typically the situation may arise — as it did in the first of this type of case: A v A (maintenance pending suit: provision for legal fees)[2001] 1 FLR 377, where a wealthy husband, who controls the couple's cash, can make it hard for his wife to raise cash to pay her lawyers before there is a final capital order.

«This is the first case that I'm award of in which a Facebook update has been used as alibi evidence,» Dallas lawyer John G. Browning told the Times.

And Ambrogi has your first case: «Defending Stick Figure in a bias suit for discriminating against older lawyers...»

Unlike some other professionals, all lawyers have unlimited licenses to practice law yet few, if any, have the competence to practice in all areas of the law» combined with report that the LSUC is reforming referral practices as discussed in the article by Michele Henry, Kenyon Wallace, «Lawyers need signed consent to refer out cases», thestar.com, April 27, 2017, would it not make sense to require that general practitioners be the first point of contact for any client to assess the client's needs and to determine whether those needs require the skills of a speclawyers have unlimited licenses to practice law yet few, if any, have the competence to practice in all areas of the law» combined with report that the LSUC is reforming referral practices as discussed in the article by Michele Henry, Kenyon Wallace, «Lawyers need signed consent to refer out cases», thestar.com, April 27, 2017, would it not make sense to require that general practitioners be the first point of contact for any client to assess the client's needs and to determine whether those needs require the skills of a specLawyers need signed consent to refer out cases», thestar.com, April 27, 2017, would it not make sense to require that general practitioners be the first point of contact for any client to assess the client's needs and to determine whether those needs require the skills of a specialist?

Founding father John Adams was the first president to be a lawyer and his son, John Quincy Adams, was the first to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in the famous Amistad case.

Back in November I learned about the alarming case about one Josh Monson via a post on Lowering the Bar that was aptly titled, «Man Who Stabbed His First Two Lawyers With a Pencil Stabs Another Lawyer With a Pencil.»

I was the first private lawyer to represent countries, in this case 77 countries from the ACP group, before the panel and appellant body of the WTO in the very long running and famous banana dispute.

The very first thing a lawyer should do when he takes in a new case is diary, in several places, including in a computer tickler system, the time limitations for filing suit.

From the very first moment our lawyers take on your personal injury claim, we are methodical and dutiful in the development of a winning case file that can prevail in court.

The first issue that the prospective lawyer will look at in any given case is the issue of liability.

In this case, instead of referring my client to lawyers, or pestering my colleagues for help, I decided to see if I first could find some answers myself, through research, and assistance from duty counsel or counter staff at the courthouse.

First, find out about the lawyer's areas of specialization, as well as how long they've been practicing in that area and what kind of experience they have with cases that are similar to yours.

From your first free initial consultation with a lawyer from the firm all the way through to the conclusion of your case, you will not be asked to pay any money until your case has been successfully settled or won in your favor.

When looking for the best Vancouver car accident lawyer for your injury case you first have to understand that in British Columbia there are no specialized certificates personal injury lawyers can receive to reward specialized knowledge in car accident injury claims.

If you're self - represented you should be able to pick up the playbook and read the first couple chapters and then jump to wherever you are in your process and have a road map of what to expect, what your options are, different plays you can make in court, what places you can settle, what you can expect in settling, resources for where to find information on what's likely to happen in your case, the best case scenarios and worst case scenarios that any experienced state bar court defense lawyer is going to be able to construct.

Even if you are a brand new attorney, just licensed and taking your first case ever, you can still sell the fact that you went to law school and passed the bar, just like every other lawyer licensed in your jurisdiction.

Partners from White & Case and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe have topped a new ranking of the UK's most active deal lawyers by volume in the first half of 2017.

«It reported on changes in the state rules governing lawyer advertising, marketing and solicitation, cases that interpreted the lawyer's First Amendment rights, ethics opinions that interpreted the rules and novelties in client development.»

I was asked, by a defence lawyer, in the first case!

First case: Defending Stick Figure in a bias suit for discriminating against older lawyers.

Phoenix lawyer Larry Hammond, who has helped free three men wrongfully convicted of arson, including Taylor, says it's fair to say that a lot of progress has been made in fire investigations in the 35 years since he took on his first arson case.

I concur that when some lawyers are faced with this decision they may have wished they never took the case in the first place.

In addition to CLE materials (the «Educational Notes»), Annotated CPR uses for its annotations digests of cases evaluated, selected and prepared by a roster of volunteer lawyers and published first in the Nova Scotia Law News and then in the Nova Scotia Case Law ServicIn addition to CLE materials (the «Educational Notes»), Annotated CPR uses for its annotations digests of cases evaluated, selected and prepared by a roster of volunteer lawyers and published first in the Nova Scotia Law News and then in the Nova Scotia Case Law Servicin the Nova Scotia Law News and then in the Nova Scotia Case Law Servicin the Nova Scotia Case Law Service.

The first and most vital step in pursuing a wrongful death case would have to be getting a lawyer.

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

It begins by talking about how the problem came about in the first place, discusses some of the specific disclosure and transparency concerns lawyers face, and then reviews the case law on disclosure and transparency.

In doing so they have already decided that «unscrupulous» clinical negligence lawyers are to blame and fired the first shot with a sensationalist and gross misrepresentation of the realities of clinical negligence cases.

In order to write even the most basic précis of recent cases and new legislation, the lawyers must first be reading caselaw and perusing legislation.