Sentences with phrase «for lawyers in cases»

The second school of legal ethics would emphasize the Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers in cases of huge asymmetries of force and resource and stress that lawyers are precluded from instituting proceedings which, although legal in themselves, are brought solely for the purpose of injuring the other party.

Not exact matches

The prospect of winning large damages in a class action can be the only way for consumers to find lawyers to take their cases, so a denial of this certification can effectively end some lawsuits.

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.

In a filing with the federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, lawyers for the plaintiffs called the settlement the «largest ever» in a case alleging excessive fees in 401 (k) litigatioIn a filing with the federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, lawyers for the plaintiffs called the settlement the «largest ever» in a case alleging excessive fees in 401 (k) litigatioin East St. Louis, Illinois, lawyers for the plaintiffs called the settlement the «largest ever» in a case alleging excessive fees in 401 (k) litigatioin a case alleging excessive fees in 401 (k) litigatioin 401 (k) litigation.

Nonetheless, a lawyer for two women injured in Charlottesville said that the leaked chats could form «the crux of the case» because they demonstrated a desire for violence.

Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.

Other occupations are using A.I. in tandem with people: Lawyers use software that can analyze cases and search for relevant past rulings; pharmaceutical firms use algorithms to aid in drug discovery.

The judge in the case, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, had ordered the lawyers to return to Guantanamo on Sunday for a pretrial hearing.

Lawyers and prosecutors say that requiring such proof would make it harder for authorities to pursue insider trading cases, potentially preventing prosecutions in which corporate executives tip friends or relatives without any tangible quid pro quo.

But in Vox's case, there appear to be no mitigating facts to explain why it took down the contract, and neither the company nor its lawyer Lauren Fisher responded to repeated requests for comment.

Many provinces have intervened in the case against Comeau, while a team of lawyers with an interest in the constitutional issues offered to represent him for free, and the Canadian Constitution Foundation volunteered its assistance.

As for whether to consult a lawyer when crafting a warning letter, in most cases it's a good belt - and - suspenders measure if you can afford it, but some experts say it's unnecessary.

Even in the case of professions like law or medicine, which require graduate degrees to practice, not all lawyers and doctors picked the stereotypical political science and biology majors for their undergraduate studies.

Telephone operators at the service center have been unable to provide meaningful assistance and in some cases have provided wrong information, leading to delays and rejections of applications, said legal specialists at the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration SeLawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Selawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Lawyers attack phone system for immigrants By Ann M. Simmons Los Angeles Times A customer - service telephone system run by immigration authorities is frustrating and inefficient and in some cases has provided such bad advice that clients have been detained or deported, according to immigration lawyers pressing to have the service scLawyers attack phone system for immigrants By Ann M. Simmons Los Angeles Times A customer - service telephone system run by immigration authorities is frustrating and inefficient and in some cases has provided such bad advice that clients have been detained or deported, according to immigration lawyers pressing to have the service sclawyers pressing to have the service scrapped.

This should be self - evident There are almost no opportunities for a lawyer in English Canada to argue a case in Quebec - most aren't called in Quebec and when clients have a Quebec case they, quite sensibly, hire a Quebec lawyer.

«A lawsuit opens the door, and judges almost always allow for a plaintiff to have a fishing expedition,» said Robert S. Bennett, the Washington lawyer who represented Mr. Clinton in the Paula Jones case.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

Lawyers for Boeing present the dispute as a classic case of illegal subsidies and dumping, or selling products at below - market prices in foreign countries.

«It was Kafkaesque, and it lasted for years,» explained Peter Kirby, a Montreal trade lawyer who represented Frito - Lay in the case.

For lawyers, fully automatic time tracking, time accounting software, that works in the background and assigns your activites to cases.

In the interest of moving the case along, Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer set a May 4 deadline for Cruz's lawyers to formally request...

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.

A separate arbitration case by Conoco against Venezuela before the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) introduced in 2007 could result in a final decision later this year, a lawyer close to the case said.

Uber has indulged in the slick practice of including its lawyers in meetings and communications and deciding after the fact if a lawyer was actually included for the purpose of providing legal advice, all in accordance with what happens to be convenient for Uber's case.

Charles Harder, a lawyer representing Trump in the Daniels case, did not respond to a request for comment Sunday.

In the Texas case, plaintiff's lawyers are going for multimillions in damages, and to get that kind of money are claiming that not only the diocese but the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its operating arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), are liable for not properly supervising the priests in questioIn the Texas case, plaintiff's lawyers are going for multimillions in damages, and to get that kind of money are claiming that not only the diocese but the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its operating arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), are liable for not properly supervising the priests in questioin damages, and to get that kind of money are claiming that not only the diocese but the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its operating arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), are liable for not properly supervising the priests in questioin question.

But generalist lawyers, for whom the case is strongest, are in increasingly short supply.

(CNN)- A 14 - year - old Pakistani girl who had faced life in prison for allegedly burning the Quran will have her case heard in juvenile court, the girl's lawyer told CNN.

Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect «unborn persons,» and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments.

I, (and Scot McKnight and many others), stand with Boz Tchividjian, a lawyer who has worked on cases related to child abuse for most of his career and the founder of G.R.A.C.E (Godly Response to Abuse in a Christian Environment).

Catholic News Service: Pope names Boston priest to be Vatican's abuse investigator Pope Benedict XVI has named a canon lawyer from the Archdiocese of Boston to be the new promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position that includes monitoring and investigating cases of priests accused of sex abuse.

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

I have written in this space about «Grasping for Gold» (November 1998), especially in the case of lawyers exploiting the Holocaust, and have commended Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and others who protest the unseemliness of those who play the guilt game for their own enrichment, with little or no benefit to those who suffered the crimes for which restitution is demanded.

(For example, information on the number of lawyers, law schools, and so forth in a society could be a substitute measure of legal development, but in that case the relationship with societal complexity would be well - nigh tautological.)

While the second is technically true, it should be pointed out that defense lawyers have, for years, intentionally run up the cost to the state by presenting multiple appeals, even based on little to no actual legal cause, in order to drive up the cost of death penalty cases.

A lawyer for Karim Benzema has described his client as «leading 3 - 0 in the 89th minute» after a court gave him a boost in his alleged extortion case.

A lawyer for Karim Benzema has described his client as «leading 3 - 0 in the 89th minute» after a French court gave the Real Madrid striker a boost in the case of alleged attempted extortion of Mathieu Valbuena.

Lawyers for the network filed to transfer the case, brought last month by Beef Products Inc, the leading producer of the product, from of a state court in South Dakota and to a federal court in the state.

LINCOLN PARK — A lawyer for a residents» group fighting construction of a soccer field in Lincoln Park said Latin School and the Chicago Park District had approached them about settling the case before it goes to court.

For example, if the default is to favor the defending party, then you might see anti-abortion lawyers taking the pro-abortion side in a case hoping for a tie that would give the anti-abortion side the effective wFor example, if the default is to favor the defending party, then you might see anti-abortion lawyers taking the pro-abortion side in a case hoping for a tie that would give the anti-abortion side the effective wfor a tie that would give the anti-abortion side the effective win.

Even before the May 23 adjourned date for the case to be heard, lawyers for the five suspects hurried to court in a desperate attempt to secure bail for the suspects.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

In which case, it would be helpful to explain why the Commission as at the date of the alleged petition, has been unable to pay its lawyers for the 2013 Presidential election petition.

Only an infantile lawyer like Okudzeto Ablakwa would refuse to cut his losses as I did when he knows that governments in Ghana do not pay for any fees associated with filing and prosecuting civil cases except legal costs, damages, and other awards.

Percoco's lawyer didn't respond to requests for comment, but pretrial filings cite one possible glitch in the case — some accusations focus on a period in 2014 when Percoco temporarily left to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

A lawyer for the longtime Hillary Clinton aide submitted paperwork in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday just a few hours before a scheduled 2:15 hearing in the case with Judge Michael Katz.

Lawyers for former state Senate leader Dean Skelos told a federal appeals court in Manhattan that the recent decision reversing the corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has strengthened Skelos» case for same treatment.

On his part, another defence lawyer in the case, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), described as «irritating» the oversight excuse given by the agency as the reason for the failure to produce the ex-NSA in court on Tuesday.