Sentences with phrase «former legal client»

I leave this job to my former legal client, Willie...

At least one major contributor doesn't care that Brooklyn state Sen. John Sampson is running for re-election while facing corruption charges — a former legal client with ties to the mob, The Post has learned.

At least one major contributor doesn't care that Brooklyn state Sen. John Sampson is running for re-election while facing corruption charges — a former legal client with ties to the...

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That's the Manhattan law firm perhaps best known (in political circles, anyway) for its key role in the corruption scandal of now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and in legal circles for representing clients suffering from mesothelioma, an asbestos - related cancer.

As former senior government legal and policy advisors with decades of experience, we help clients successfully navigate legislative, policy, administrative, and procurement issues.

The publicity - seeking Staten Island lawyer who once asked a judge to let him settle a legal battle with another attorney using «trial by combat» is now suing «bitter» former clients and people he claims he had business dealings with — for $ 10 million.

The veteran Nassau County legislator, a Democrat from Merrick, suddenly dropped out of one of the year's most closely watched races, one on which the Senate's balance of power might hinge, after his former law firm alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he defrauded a client of $ 2 million by billing for legal services he never performed.

Former Speaker Sheldon Silver's legal troubles stem from his role as being «of counsel» to a firm whose clients had business interests intertwined with the state.

«If you fail to heed this one and only warning, be assured that we intend to pursue all legal remedies... including substantial punitive damages based on the malicious nature of your misconduct,» wrote Tacopina, whose client list has included former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and ex-state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, a former New York state senator who was expelled from the chamber in 2010 after attacking his girlfriend.

A raft of firms including Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters and DLA Piper are facing legal action from Dewey & LeBoeuf's estate over client matters they allegedly took on when recruiting former partners of the collapsed US law firm.

These days, legal consumers who are complete strangers can find what former clients say about you.

As I first reported on May 26, 2016, in a lawsuit filed against him by two former clients, Bluford stipulated to a judgment against him in the amount of $ 559,330 to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and swindling two clients.

As a former attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a special projects team attorney at the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, a law clerk to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and director of the Merrill Lynch Philanthropic SB Program, Mr. Dyson has extensive experience representing major institutions and variety of clients.

Our team includes former litigators, class underwriters and legal and insurance professionals who are recognised as being experts in litigation finance and insurance, with a reputation for pioneering new ideas and consistently delivering results for our clients.

With a number of former general counsels for city, state, and federal environmental regulatory agencies on our team, our agency relationships and insider's perspective enable us to develop innovative legal solutions for our clients» environmental challenges.

Our team includes former litigators, class underwriters and legal as well as insurance professionals who are recognised as being experts in litigation finance and insurance, with a reputation for pioneering new ideas and consistently delivering results for our clients.

Another law firm obtained, by summary judgment, an order for payment of its legal fees in the amount of $ 182,569.63 and an order dismissing a former client's counterclaim alleging negligence against it (2017 ONSC 3391, under appeal).

(For the record, Darren Mack really gets around — he's also the former client of reknowed legal columnist Dahlia Lithwick).

In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than sober observations — such as those of the former chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»

The trial, which is set to begin on Nov. 17, centres around whether or not the plaintiffs, a pair of lawyers who practised together but were not partners, are owed legal fees by the defendants, their former clients.

Chris Bentley, former Ontario Attorney - General and now the Executive Director of both the Legal Innovation Zone and the Law Practice Program at Ryerson University, has created a Social Lab process to engage a range of stakeholders — including SRLs and the clients of legal services — in a discussion about the future of family law in OntLegal Innovation Zone and the Law Practice Program at Ryerson University, has created a Social Lab process to engage a range of stakeholders — including SRLs and the clients of legal services — in a discussion about the future of family law in Ontlegal services — in a discussion about the future of family law in Ontario.

When incidents occur, our team, which includes former officials at federal and state investigatory and enforcement agencies, has the technical, legal and practical experience in conducting data security investigations to identify the root cause, advise clients on how to respond, and develop and implement remediation plans to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.

Gyi Tsakalakis is a former lawyer and the founder of AttorneySync, an online legal marketing agency, to help lawyers be where their clients are looking.

We are well - equipped with a former insurance defense lawyer, who understands the inner workings of insurance companies and how to defend clients against their legal strategies.

We provide the unique combination of former government enforcement officials and in - house counsel as well as regional experts in the laws and legal systems of 47 countries in which we are located, our advisory work ensures that compliance programs are structured to minimize the risk of a government investigation and to put clients in the best possible position in the event of an enforcement action.

An AG, as a politician, advising Cabinet is not the same thing as a lawyer advising an individual client — the former's advice is, ultimately, political advice, or at least, legal advice that is framed by political considerations that will be the subject of scrutiny and vetting by the House and public as part of its adoption.

Current and former chairs of Legal Week's International Private Client Forum are well represented, including Sullivan & Cromwell's Basil Zirinis (pictured above) and Clare Maurice, of Maurice Turnor Gardner, who will co-chair this year's forum at Lake Como in November.

According to the San Francisco legal newspaper The Recorder, Los Angeles - based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges ran an ad in one of its business litigation newsletters boasting of its recent victories, including securing a $ 65 million settlement for its former client, ConnectU in its trade secret theft lawsuit against Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

AMTF asserts that the former clients have breached their contracts by raising legal proceedings against it in Germany and asserting rights under the German law of delict.

Our Pasadena law firm is one of the few firms that represents both lawyers and former clients in legal malpractice and negligence cases.

«Although we may dislike or disfavor an attorney's choice to seek a criminal complaint against a former client in an attempt to collect payment for past services,» Justice John M. Greaney wrote for the SJC, «we can not deny any citizen the constitutional right to petition the courts to seek legal redress.»

Former Holman Fenwick Willan partner Konstantinos Adamantopoulos has been banned from any UK legal practice after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found he charged clients for his own holidays and other personal expenses.

A lawyer who sued her former client for $ 3,937.50 for unpaid legal fees has had $ 7,000 in costs awarded against her, and the matter has yet to reach trial.

Obviously, your former client has completely misunderstood the legal representation and the relationship between you.

Ratings might tell us with a significant degree of certainty whether former clients liked their lawyers, but be much more imperfect in revealing whether clients actually received good quality legal services.

The Toronto securities lawyer has been embroiled in a near decade - long battle with the Law Society of Upper Canada, the body that regulates the legal profession in Ontario, over his «incivility» conviction — basically being rude and disruptive in the courtroom at the trial of his former client, Bre - X Minerals executive John Felderhof.

Washington - based law firm Gilbert is suing a former client for more than $ 6 million in legal fees and expenses in connection with a $ 26 million jury award.

Irish Legal News reporter Kevin Burns meets former lawyer Noah Waisberg, co-founder and CEO of Canadian legal tech company Kira Systems, who is in Dublin to meet Irish clients and spread the word that Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity and not a threat — that it should be embraced and not dreLegal News reporter Kevin Burns meets former lawyer Noah Waisberg, co-founder and CEO of Canadian legal tech company Kira Systems, who is in Dublin to meet Irish clients and spread the word that Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity and not a threat — that it should be embraced and not drelegal tech company Kira Systems, who is in Dublin to meet Irish clients and spread the word that Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity and not a threat — that it should be embraced and not dreaded.

We are reputed among colleagues, judges and former clients, and our firm has more than 75 years of historic legal work, relationships and resources to access in advancing your case.

The former covers dispute resolution in either a court or a tribunal, whilst the latter essentially means that the solicitor helps clients with the legal aspects of their businesses or personal lives.

For over 30 years, Attorney Powers successfully represented clients in the fields of Finance, Economics, White Collar Crimes and other Fraud Investigations, all thanks to her expertise as a (n): 1) Economist (since 1981); 2) Former attorney of the Supreme Court of Greece and European Court of Justice (member of the Athenian Bar Association from 1987 to 2000); 3) Former Foreign Legal Consultant for the State of New York; 4) Certified Fraud Examiner (since 2008); 5) Attorney for the State of California and member of the California State Bar Association.

A former EEOC trial attorney and partner in a management law firm, he founded the training company ELI in 1986 to help clients «translate values into behaviors and reduce legal and ethical risk.»

Afterward, the client filed his legal malpractice claim against his former attorneys.

The Children & Youth Law Clinic (CYLC) is an in - house, live - client clinic that represents children in foster care and former foster youth in dependency, health care, mental health, disability, independent living, education, immigration and other general civil legal matters, ensuring that they have a voice in court proceedings.

In 2012, a discipline panel of Ontario's legal regulator found Groia guilty of incivility for displaying a «consistent pattern of rude, improper or disruptive conduct» in the courtroom during the early part of the trial of his client, former Bre - X Minerals executive John Felderhof.

Led by attorney Stephen Glassman, a retired Navy captain of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and former military judge, Glassman & Michael, PLLC, is well placed to assist clients through legal issues with confidence.

In both hearings, our testimony included legal aid providers and former clients — Jenny and Michael.

Recently, Orr & Brown obtained a jury verdict of over $ 500,000.00 on behalf of a local business client in a case involving complex legal issues, defeated a claim brought by a large materials supplier that a former corporate officer was personally liable for the debt of a defunct corporation based on a signed personal guaranty, and successfully negotiated a high - profile «business divorce» between 2 owners of a very lucrative and profitable North Georgia business.

As former chief legal officers of sector companies, and former lawyers for the FCC, the US Department of Justice, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the White House, we have been at the forefront of the convergence of technology and communications and the explosive growth in the sector, providing a full range of services to clients across the communications, media and technology landscape.

Webb is senior vice president, Business Development and Public Reputation, at Jaffe PR and a former in - house AmLaw 200 legal marketer who offers his clients 21 years of valuable experience in media and public relations, marketing, business development, communications and advertising.