Sentences with phrase «hide behind legal»

He doesn't beat around the bush or hide behind legal jargon.

If he says I «m lying then he should disclose the terms of the settlement.How can a «Man of god» hide behind legal terms?

In O'Reilly's case, in addition to hiding behind legal language or vague statements, he has been unapologetic and unrepentant.

These questions included — as Goldsmith put it — whether lawyers are «hiding behind legal professional privilege to allow clients to get away with dodgy acts».

McClean has been able to achieve this by not «hiding behind legal risk» but by being proactive and understanding and managing it.

Not exact matches

Although citizenship - stripping is morally repugnant and ethically suspect, the Home Office will no doubt hide behind the little - noticed 2002 law that permit such activities in the name of national security — at least until a robust legal challenge is launched.

Otto Preminger directs with a sharp clarity, remaining just slightly removed from the drama, the better to watch all sides and take stock of the characters, the conflicts and the courtroom tactics, and doesn't get much better than Stewart and Scott sparring with witnesses: the cagey country lawyer hiding his endgame behind a folksy manner versus the smart, sarcastic, thoroughly urban legal eagle who makes a show of his intelligence and showmanship.

You can't hide behind privacy statements or legal jargon or appeals to company policy to pacify an Internet mob.

Meanwhile, NAMM's campaign is allowing Asian logging companies that have long wanted to weaken or repeal the Lacey Act to hide behind musicians in support of proposed legislation that legal experts and environmentalists say would have devastating impacts for forests and jobs.

He told «The Times» that although it was not seeking to dispense with LPP, the SFO was preparing to target companies «whose lawyers obstructed investigations by hiding behind the shield of legal professional privilege.

As an attorney, you can hide in the sand and be replaced by the likes of Shake Law or other companies that eliminate lawyers, or you can be left behind by adopters of legal technology.

A big corporate practice may hide your painstaking typing behind layers of senior employees and name partners, but a courtroom is compensated by the government for legal aid cases on a per - case basis.

With regard to LPM, law firms are largely building their capability behind the scenes and the report says: «While the LPM concept occasionally enters the profession's consciousness as a result of reports in the legal press and specific law firm marketing initiatives, evidence of this below - the - radar phenomena is more typically hidden away in job adverts placed by law firms and legal recruitment agencies, which are now actively seeking LPM specialists.»

As there is now more confidence in different business structures, and in accordance with the Taskforce's desire to simplify the legislation, the Taskforce proposes a new system that applies consistent standards to law practices of all kinds, while seeking to ensure that legal service providers can not hide behind the corporate veil.

The legal memo also warned Cambridge Analytica that it needed to carefully hide behind a firewall any work it did in a single state or election for a particular candidate and for any of the so - called super-PACs (political action committees) supporting the campaign.