Sentences with phrase «lawyer about making changes»

If you feel that the current contact arrangement with parents is causing problems for you or the child, talk to your child protection agency or lawyer about making changes.

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The AGW true believers apparently have, by their sad reaction to Gleick's failings, helped Gleick make some more very poor decisions: «Gleick's lawyer John Keker, «Heartland no doubt will seek to exploit Dr. Gleick's admitted lapse in judgement in order to further its agenda in the ongoing debate about climate change, but if it wants to pursue this matter legally, it will learn that our legal system provides for a level playing field.»

In her 18 years of legal practice, Shana has also made brief forays into academia, and cherishes the prospect of helping the next generation of activists and lawyers develop strategies to bring about social change.

«Recent law grad over $ 250,000 in debt blogs about trying to make it as a small practice public interest lawyer — all within the context of broader changes happening within the legal profession.»

To be successful at making a change from the billable hour to alternative fee arrangements, lawyers should be clear about the benefits to their clients and the consequences for failing to make the change.

But the proposed changes call attention to the fact that you'll want to be careful when using these sites to be certain that the comments you and others make on your site do not contain information about you «the lawyer» or your «lawyer services» that could be considered false and / or misleading — even if that means deleting an overly flattering testimonial that could deceive potential clients.

The legal system and Web 2.0 still seem largely unaware of one another, although that is starting to change as lawyers and consumers make inreasing use of sites like Avvo, Facebook, Wikipediaand mypractice to find lawyers, to network, and to get information about the law.

Patrick: I really enjoy, nothing's changed about me or my personality, but from outward appearances I make a lot more friends now than I used to being a suited clean shaven lawyer.

The joke made explicit what is implicit in so many discussions about lawyers and change: that lawyers can't change.

First, there is no question that Flaherty is right about the fact that many, if not most, lawyers are shockingly bad at the things really are very basic skills, like making changes in Word documents, de-duplicating Excel spreadsheets, and redacting PDF files.

If you are in the midst of separating, speak to your lawyer about your estate planning documents and any changes you should be making.

For example, our observation of the upward trend in litigation claims encouraged us to focus on communicating about forthcoming changes to the administrative dismissal regime, while the stability of the rest of the pattern made 2015 a good year to publish a LAWPRO Magazine issue devoted to stress management and career satisfaction, issues relevant to lawyers from all practice areas.

These changes therefore will seek to make it easier to allow white collar crimes to be identified, About Dennis Miralis Dennis Miralis is a leading Australian criminal defence lawyer and adviser who specialises in complex white collar crime, including national and interna - tional criminal investigations and pros - ecutions, with a focus on money laun - dering, tax evasion, bribery, corruption, cybercrime and regulatory offences.

I will close with an observation an audience member made about Rod Macdonald, «mentor to generations of lawyers», to the effect that academics should strive to embrace new ways of communicating our work as modes of communication change.

It is this transparency — the ability to take data, analyze it and then use the analysis to make predictions about the likelihood of success, to demonstrate and measure where value was added and to make changes to the process to minimize risk — that will be at the core of a competent lawyer.

On today's podcast, he talks about how lawyers actually are collaborating, just not in the way you'd expect, and considers whether the profession has changed in a way that makes collaboration more difficult.

But apologies that are not genuine are just as dangerous, particularly if the apology is made about something that the lawyer doesn't intend to change.»

Make sure to pay attention to your changing symptoms and tell your lawyer about any new symptoms that arise.

In order to understand how counsel make judgments about settlement offers Wistrich and Rachlinski asked groups of lawyers in continuing education courses to respond to questionnaires containing three to five hypothetical cases, changing a key factor in different versions of the case.

Until law firms make their lawyers use, and regularly change, complex passwords, encrypt every document, send email only over secure lines with encryption, cross borders with empty laptops, and outsource only to firms that pass certain security standards — it's silly to worry about iPhones.

Not only there was no fanfare, there was confusion among lawyers campaigning for reform about whether ministers had actually made any such change.

One way to gain an understanding of the number of lawyers engaged in a career change is to review the filings they make about their status to the various law societies in Canada.

But whether it is a change of make - up or merely a change of bodies could depend entirely on the efforts voting lawyers put into learning about the candidates.

Remember, if you're thinking about making changes, it's always advisable to discuss the issues and show your draft amended parenting plan to a lawyer before you sign it, to ensure that you understand your legal rights and responsibilities.

A plaintiff shareholder of the company alleged that the lawyer breached his fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty as a shareholder of the company and the lawyer failed to advise the plaintiff and others (the plaintiff was the majority shareholder) about the changes he made.