Sentences with phrase «hired gun lawyers»
Because of an «unfit for purpose» system, their claims take years to resolve, wasting untold amounts of taxpayers» money as other bureaucrats and Johnson's hired gun lawyers fight them to the bitter end despite the mountain of evidence that Iraq is a death zone for gays.
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Yale legal scholar Robert W Gordon wrote a nice piece a few years back called «Why Lawyers Can't Just Be Hired Guns.»
I recall a conversation with a lawyer friend who defends worker's comp claims who spoke in naively sincere praise of a number of doctors widely regarded as «guns for hire.»
She's about given up on getting her guns back, figuring that hiring a lawyer would cost her more than the value of the weapons.
Many law firm and lawyer blogs run on Word Press, which we find is an excellent platform if you (or an employee or hired gun) have the technical skills to deploy and manage it.
At the same time, I don't see how Yoo acted any differently than either (1) the way that we train lawyers to think in law school (i.e., to cleverly create arguments like «torture is self - defense») or (2) the way that some of us want lawyers to conduct themselves — as hired guns, rather than naysayers who are too willing to put the kibosh on new ideas.
Maybe they have a perception that lawyers are mostly mercenaries: Hired guns who will work for any side as long as they get paid.
By abandoning the role of hired guns and thinking of themselves as honorable warriors, lawyers can develop a mentality and pattern of conduct that is more conducive to achieving an ethical and proud standard of professional esteem.
Some matrimonial lawyers present themselves to clients as legal «sharks,» hired guns who can make the kill and rip up the opponent's counsel and the client.
Meeting out of court with only their lawyers, both sides reveal their assets and debts and jointly retain neutral experts, rather than hired guns, to appraise a family business or evaluate their children's needs.
Collaborative lawyers do not act as hired guns.
This does not sit well with many lawyers but I am not a hired gun.
When I started this business 25 years ago, lawyers freely described themselves as «hired guns».