Sentences with phrase «from plaintiff lawyers»

The case we are discussing today rejects one of the major recent arguments from the plaintiff lawyers to try to impose personal jurisdiction where it should not exist — «pendent jurisdiction.»

Another legal blog, A Georgia Lawyer, asked for reaction from another plaintiffs lawyer, C. Andrew Childers.

She walks us through client intake, negotiations, and settlement from a plaintiff lawyer's perspective.

Not exact matches

«And the DoJ lawyers saw themselves as an expeditionary landing party arriving here, just in time, to rescue the state from oppression, obviously presuming that plaintiffs» counsel were not up to the task.»

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

Several legal experts said that it was particularly unusual for a plaintiff using a lawyer being paid on a contingency basis not only to turn down settlement offers (several sizable settlements were proffered by Gawker) but also to pursue a strategy that prevented an insurance company from being able to contribute to a settlement.

Lawyers for both sides in the two - hour hearing veered a bit from the issue at hand which was whether the plaintiffs had legal standing to move ahead in their case.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

The Shanghai SIPG forward is praying the High Court to place a «perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, whether by themselves, servants, agents or assigns from repeating similar or other libelous words against the plaintiff as well as costs, including lawyers» fees.»

Davis also failed to respond to repeated requests from the plaintiff's lawyer for the CRB's file, Miner wrote.

I conduct my cases in Court as plaintiff since I ceased to practice as a lawyer from January 2012.

In an Oct. 30 letter to the judge, lawyer Paul Mullin, who represents Antonacci, complained that county officials denied his requests for certain email records while complying with a similar request from the plaintiffs.

His ruling effectively removes the ID statement from the curriculum and invites the plaintiffs» lawyers to bill the school district for «reasonable» costs.

One lawyer hinted at success in having a school board attorney «from one of our [plaintiff] districts» appointed to the state supreme court (again, Kansas).

The class action was filed earlier this month in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in Washington, on behalf of some 100,000 individuals who attended such schools from 1890 until the present day, said Jeffrey M. Herman, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs.

I will moderate a panel discussion featuring lawyers and plaintiffs from both cases, and an audience Q&A will follow.

Josh Lipshutz, a plaintiffs» lawyer, attempted to undercut her, by referring to an interview she gave to a local newspaper in which she stated «Teachers have expressed a lot of frustration with the lack of support they received from the district administration.»

During moments of frustration with the district's intransigence, I would sometimes say to the courageous disability advocate lawyers representing the plaintiffs that I had a tough time figuring out how students and their parents benefited from maintaining the district at its current size, and that breaking it up into smaller units would better serve students» interests.

Mayor Villaraigosa was joined today by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, Board Member Yolie Flores, lawyers from the ACLU - SC, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, as well as teachers from Gompers Middle School to discuss the details of the settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

News was announced yesterday from the lawyers for the plaintiffs in one of Apple's side lawsuits over ebook pricing that the grand total the company could have to pay out to consumers is $ 400 million.

Under oath, you will recount your version of events as well as answer any questions from the plaintiff's lawyer.

Elijah is one of three named plaintiffs in Ward's lawsuit, which the lawyer has moved from Florida to Washington state.

Colour me cynical but from the posts I've been reading here at WUWT, I'm wondering if the Plaintiffs» lawyers thought «This case hasn't got a hope of succeeding but there's some dough in it so we'll take it on».

The comment from the Clinton - appointee is a stunning blow to the activists, plaintiffs» lawyers, and public officials who have spent several years conspiring to accuse energy companies of misleading the public on climate change and undercut the central premise of the lawsuits.

This is a legal blawg of interest to lawyers who occasionally or regularly deal with clients, plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses from other cultures or who encounter foreign - language evidence requiring foreign - language document translation in the course of litigation.

... the plaintiff received a letter from a lawyer who should know something about the law and who was making an apparently serious threat of legal action if the claim was not paid.

The other lawyer representing the plaintiffs is B.J. Wade from the firm Glassman, Edwards, Wade & Wyatt in Memphis.

The lawsuit is the latest effort by pension - fund plaintiffs and private lawyers to extract penalties from banks for alleged wrongdoing including anticompetitive actions.

Under the financing agreement, plaintiffs were only to receive payment from the settlement after eight different groups of lawyers, funders, and advisors received their payouts.

The Plaintiff's lawyer chose not to order a report from the neuropsychologist following the assessment.

Personally, as a Maryland accident lawyer who has seen up close the harm that can come from speeding and running red lights, I hope the Plaintiff's appeal fails.

The plaintiffs» lawyers get anywhere from 30 % to 40 % in fees.»

Professor Brickman argues that the BP suit is representative of a larger trend in American class action litigation whereby the plaintiffs» lawyers are hired on a contingency fee basis and end up reaping enormous sums from the settlement.

A blunderbuss request for employment that doesn't even acknowledge that you're writing to a plaintiffs» firm or an insurance - defense firm, a labor lawyer or a family lawyer, is doomed from the start to be ineffective.

«Expert Witnesses: Competing Views from the Plaintiff and Defense Lawyers» Perspectives,» NCBA Annual Meeting, June 2010, Wilmington, NC (Speaker)

Our guests are two prominent lawyers representing plaintiffs in these cases, Thomas V. Girardi of Girardi Keese in Los Angeles and J. Paul Sizemore from the firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles in Montgomery, Ala..

And even where non-English-speaking Hispanic plaintiffs are represented by an English - speaking lawyer, if that lawyer can't speak any Spanish, then he can't communicate directly with the client and share the kind of advice on those seeming trivialities — like how to answer a question or what tone of voice to use in the courtroom or what to do to keep from forgetting what to say — that put clients at ease and make them more effective witnesses in court.

Toronto privacy lawyer Gil Zvulony says McIntosh is a reflection of the limited damages courts are likely to award unless the plaintiff can prove substantial harm from the breach.

The plaintiffs will be eligible for compensation from the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, but no specific Iranian assets have been secured, according to Cohen Milstein lawyer Robert Braun.

On the civil side, lawyers for both plaintiff and defendant breach their duties to their client if they put the interest of justice, or some other person, ahead of their client interest without instructions from the client to do so.

At trial The Master who heard the motion at first instance ruled in favour of the defendant, declining to remove the plaintiff's lawyer from the record.

The attorneys at our firm come from professional backgrounds that make them more effective in their current roles as plaintiff's personal injury lawyers today.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the unrepresented plaintiff's appeal from Justice Perell's judgment, which summarily dismissed the plaintiff's action against lawyer D. Walcott retained lawyer D to collect a $ 248,000 unsecured loan.

In another decision (2014 ONCA 608, dismissing appeal from 2014 ONSC 1300), the Court of Appeal agreed that the plaintiff's action against a criminal lawyer should be struck out as an abuse of process.

Attorneys with the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association say the court needs to keep the issue of the plaintiff's immigration status separate from the injury lawsuit.

Plaintiff gets what their case is worth and Defendant feels like their lawyer saved them from catastrophe.

The report makes incomplete points, such as when it condemns judicial campaign contributions by plaintiffs» lawyers without mentioning contributions from business groups.

Because of attorney - client privilege, it is impossible to know how often those plaintiffs» lawyers advised their clients to take the offers and stay away from trial, but I suspect that it wasn't very often.

In our book, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality, we offer a comprehensive analysis of the system of employment civil rights litigation, using both statistical data from a large random sample of cases and in - depth interviews with plaintiffs, plaintiffs lawyers, defendant employers and defense lawyers about their experiences with and perspectives on discrimination lawsuits.

Finally, the Firm has a substantial practice involving environmental insurance coverage — a lawyer from our Environmental Group represented the plaintiff in New Jersey's leading Supreme Court environmental insurance case.