Sentences with phrase «just talking to a lawyer»

But from what I have seen, the companies that are best at serving the legal profession are the ones whose top execs get out in the trenches, where they don't just talk to lawyers, they listen to them.

We were just talking to a lawyer the other day.

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«I even asked my lawyer, «Can you just talk to someone?»

That instead of the Russian lawyer lying about having proof that Clinton was taking money from the Russians when she just wanted to talk about how the Magnitsky Act was impacting adoptions, there was an agreement made whereby someone did something illegal at the behest of Don, Jr. or someone else as a result of a specific agreement.

I am going to talk to a lawyer, this is just stunning to me.»

Legal recourse is certainly one possible option, and if that's the only one you can think of, then go ahead and put that in your answer (that would essentially just be «talk to a lawyer»).

, and I eventually found one lawyer who seems to know what he is talking about... I just wish I could afford him - or the adversary proceeding.

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It certainly is also rewarding to hear from clients and other lawyers who have stumbled on it that they enjoy reading it... And just like the lawyer chatting to the neighbors over a cup of coffee, if these folks come away with the conclusion that you just might know what you are talking about, that can't be a bad thing, for me or them.»

Even so, just to be on the safe side, lawyers should caution their clients not only to refrain from talking to any person about their case, but also anything — particularly a video camera.

Some police, who know it's their last shot to get a confession and know once your lawyer gets there will never talk to you again (and they have enough to go forward without your confession in the event you just start blabbing «you did it» before they can get you to invoke your rights) will keep talking to you and tell you not to comment, just to listen, even while your lawyer sits outside.

Attorneys at 60 - lawyer Levenfeld Pearlstein in Chicago probably meet to talk about pricing at least once a month, and «I'm sure it's not just our firm,» says partner Patricia A. O'Connor, who heads the firm's practice representing community associations.

Lawyers have to talk amongst themselves about it; they need a forum to offer up innovative and (dare we say) disruptive ideas about the path the industry needs to take — not just to protect its entitlements, but to better serve the people who need access to its services.

If you are concerned about someone who has any of the above symptoms, or is just not acting right, talking to highly qualified lawyer may give you information that may help you to understand the victim and his / her family's rights and to thus make more informed decisions about your next steps.

Norm and his team just finished my case and I'm very pleased with how it turned out, At first I was hesitant about seeking a lawyer but after talking with Norm I realized I needed someone to look after my interests and they did an excellent job, I would highly recommend them to anyone!!

So if you are trying to muddle through the court system in BC, and you're wondering how you and your spouse can just cut to the chase and get yourselves a trial date, just fill out Form F44 (but please, talk to a lawyer first!).

But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.

They were just so averse to talking to lawyers because they're always worried that it's like, «It's a cop.

talks to its readers as people, not just lawyers, and we get that there's more to the profession than the billable hour.

Again, like we were talking about earlier where we think that everything's different for lawyers, I've come to realize it's not and tapping into resources about marketing for non-lawyers, just any business, I've learned a lot about things like Google AdWords and the marketing pixels on your website, things that I'm able to do that aren't all implemented yet but they will be part of marketing of my digital product.

Penn's talk appeared to present the best questions of SoLI where she shared some of the tough questions she posed to her firm's partners, including, «What if lawyers could only deliver their services in just three sentences?»

What he's talking about is when you're billing somebody monthly for a service, that's a habit and they just do it because maybe they like you, maybe their loyal to you, but eventually they go while I'm not really getting the value from this, which is why it's so important for lawyers to make sure that clients appreciate the value their giving.

That's all the liaisons, the judges and everybody else and frankly a lot of people just thought I was absolutely crazy but I got a lot of thank you's over time and as we talked about it more, we get a magazine that focused on mindfulness and Jeena Cho, who you know who's now published The Anxious Lawyer, was really getting some traction at the same time and it just kind of ignited and there's been a lot of traction on mindfulness since then and I was glad to be at least a small part of that, introducing the lawyers in this state to mindfulness.

Sam Glover: A lot of lawyers talk about being picky about their clients and I think very few lawyers are actually able to do that so I'm wondering like I mean do you identify like nope this person just isn't a fit for us and then you turn them away?

If instead, you've done a bunch of work, and usually it's working with a mentor, whether formally or informally, and you've met people who are in that practice, and you read all the blogs that work comp lawyers read, and you maybe have gone to some section meetings for the local Bar Association, and you've done a bunch of other stuff, then when you write your cover letter, you say, «Dear John, you know it's funny, I just talked to your partner three weeks ago, and he actually recommended that I apply for this job.

I can't tell you how many times just anecdotally... We'll talk to lawyers about how they're fielding inbound phone calls.

I'm just telling you from talking to these lawyers, the expectations of clients is changing.

Sam Glover: Okay, and we're back, and Brad you just hinted to me what we're talking beforehand about you're working on some mobile legal clinics which is interesting because I've always wanted to just drop in and be a lawyer for free in a neighborhood, or a park, or library, or something and usually it always seems to make sense to do it with more structure behind it.

One of the things, if I may, to just stay on the [inaudible 00:40:04] that I didn't cover that I think is extremely important when we talk about what type of limit or how high of a limit do you need is the fact that typically, lawyers» professional liability insurance limits are written so you have a per claim limit.

Maybe this touches on something else we wanted to talk about which is maybe lawyers just are innovative enough and there isn't enough incentive for non-lawyers to innovate.

Sam Glover: But you could assist one side, and you just talk to them, or can you negotiate with the other party or the other lawyer as well?

But I like to hear that the courts are coming down harder, because maybe that will make any lawyer who's about to do something on purpose, or what I'm about to ask you in the next segment is maybe bringing more attention to the types of violations or complaints that they don't even realize or are possibly doing and maybe it's just going to make us think about it a little bit more if we're talking about it a little bit more and hearing about harder sorts of actions being taken against these lawyers.

You will talk to a Glenview lawyer, not just an admin person.

Even if the police tell you that you have not been charged and that they «just want to talk,» invoke your right to counsel and immediately get help from an experienced lawyer.

But what we always tell lawyers when we go — and I speak around the state and I talk to people — is just return a phone call.

I am planning on talking to a lawyer before doing so, but just wanted some quick advice.

Two years ago, I started talking to lawyers in the in - house community about what they thought of an awards program that would recognize departments that approach how legal works differently — innovating for the future, for the businesses they support, and just because it made sense to do so.

«I began the Black Female Lawyers Network because when I was called to the bar I, too, had some unique experiences, just like my dad, because of the intersection of race and gender and wanted to talk to another black female lawyer about it.

In just the last few weeks, I have talked to two lawyers dealing with hacked email accounts.

Today, we were going to talk about search engine optimization, which we haven't talked about in the podcast in a while, but we're going to talk about it from a very nuts and bolts perspective and maybe it's always probably worth backing up and saying what is search engine optimization, and we'll probably just call it SEO from here on, so what is SEO and why should lawyers care about it?

«When we are short of time, we just say it is Siri for lawyers,» says Ross team software engineer Jimoh Ovbiagele, 21, referring to the Apple iPhone's talking concierge program.

Talk to the managing partner of any firm about AR, look at the cars in the lawyer - only spots, visit the average partner's home, then tell me that the profession isn't motivated by money just like any other industry.»

I talk to law firm leaders every day and I am sometimes talking to a CMO who has just made a $ 10 million investment in a technology piece, or a CIO who is desperately telling me how they are trying to convince their lawyers to work differently.

Then you can present that to your client and you feel confident that's the right number, they feel confident because of the reasons we had just talked about and I think you'll find that a lot of lawyers will get over that hurdle is whatever system or tools you have, whether it's an Excel file, whether it's your billing system, figure out a wan na to lay out all your tasks, assign your rate to it, and then track in real time, so you can really tell, «Does it really take me two hours to do this task, I always thought it did», but as it turns out it usually takes me three.

We can talk about what that means under the ethics rules, but just to know the reason I bring it up now, it's just to point out that the freelance lawyer need not be admitted in your jurisdiction, and in fact, over my career, I've worked with lawyers all over the country.

Sam Glover: Okay we're back and okay so we've been talking about what millennial clients want from their lawyers and I'm sure we just scratched the surface of it but let's flip that because many of us have to work in the world and as we started out with millennials are now real people who have jobs and things.

Maybe I am totally wrong and both clients and lawyers have just been waiting for an easier way to talk about billing.

It's just that enough lawyers have added alternative fees to their toolboxes — without giving up on the billable hour entirely — that it's no longer interesting to talk about them.

I think they apply whether we're talking about individuals who definitely are under - served by lawyers today, but I think it goes all the way up to the largest clients, too, where there are large corporates that have all these legal needs that aren't being met because it's just not either packaged or priced in a way that works for them to get these problems solved.

And honestly, when I have listened to the judges talk about how dissatisfying it is to observe and question a lawyer over a video feed, I think most of their concerns are answered by doing some form of augmented or mixed reality and meeting in a shared space rather than just meeting across flat screens.