Sentences with phrase «lawyer giving the course»

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According to the lawyers for Chabaan, they were of the belief that justice will be fairly served if given the opportunity, as the new the new evidence they had could change the course of the case.

He said: «There was an attempt because there is a lawyer — and I'm sorry I won't mention his name, of course, he may know it's him, maybe he is watching us — who is close to Anas and who knew that this job was going on, and I think he went and did some «Okro mouth», so, somebody now tries to give him money to go and give to Anas.

This does not mean that lawyers shouldn't explain the range of likely outcomes — this is of course a key obligation when giving advice on a settlement — but lawyers should give some deference to the client's decision and to refrain from encouraging litigation by unreasonable promises of vastly improved outcomes.

Given the potential ethical minefield and potential liability issues that could arise as a result of payment of referral fees, a far better course of action may be to eschew referral fees entirely and take the approach taken by one lawyer who says:

It is the type of document that does not require any special skills to draft (although, of course, to draft it well may require special skills: see below) and, perhaps more importantly given the fact that it will usually be considered and possibly prepared by lawyers who have little expertise in costs, it is easy to navigate and understand.

Apart from probably gaining wide - spread support among EU lawyers for this literary reference (I would suspect that the average EU lawyer could be exactly the kind of person who is into Douglas Adams» writings, but feel free to comment to confirm or to reject my view), one may of course wonder — if one has the inclination for such intellectual journeys — whether you would have to actually give a reason for quoting literature as an Advocate General.

It's that time of year when law students turn into lawyer - trainees, whether because of articling or summer jobs, and from everything I've heard most hiring law firms give their students a crash course in legal research.

It is caused by at least three other factors: (i) almost every problem law students encounter in law school comes labelled either by the course or by the assigned moot topic; few students ever have to deal with a simple cry for help from a client; (ii) in my experience at law schools — and it may be different now — almost all research was done in the context of litigation or moots and, while that's obviously an important focus, it's not the only one; and, perhaps the most important factor, (iii) the lawyers who give the students work far too often ask the student to «find a case» — this is almost universal focus of litigators — and are uninterested in either context or principle.

Aside from a few procedure and ethics courses, most schools don't give you much of a glimpse into the life of a practicing lawyer.

Since 2008, Rob has taught courses on philosophy of law, the American Constitution and the American legal system in Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, China and India and has given presentations on philosophy, the American Constitution and / or lawyering at Vanderbilt University, Boston University and ELSA, the European Law Students Association.

Of course lawyers have particular and important abilities and capacities (or they should, given what they are paid).

Of course, we are lawyers, so we will give you a lawyer's disclaimer — the value of a case depends on numerous factors, too numerous to name in any one list.

Of course, the lawyer will have to get permission before giving out names of former clients.

Given all this, there must have been legions of lawyers who worked with Jackson at one point or another over the course of his too - short life.

Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger had the client assessed given certain issues pertaining to the client's mental health and after a series of pre-trials with the Crown and the client undertaking a meaningful course of counselling, all charges were withdrawn.

Ars Technica is reporting that during the course of the «tot dancing to a Prince song» trial, in which the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the tot's mum are suing Universal for giving her «a bad - faith DMCA takedown,» Universal's lawyer stated that all fair use must constitute infringement, and that fair use is an affirmative defence.

This article, Oregon lawyers can't skip the diversity class (10/12/06), describes the primary explanation given for opposition to the courses — they're boring!

Give them a one - paragraph legal problem and have them make an appointment with another lawyer at your firm (without telling that lawyer, of course).

Since you may have been searching for this exact topic I decided to give you a brief crash course on how to get clients as a lawyer.

Dedicated to educating future lawyers and giving back to the legal community, Tom has taught as an adjunct professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law for over 35 years, including courses in federal tax procedure and criminal tax fraud.

Once allowed to work on it, I expect civil service lawyers told May the safest legal course would be to bring a quick one - line Bill to Parl giving PM authority to trigger Art50.

If you feel like your long - term disability insurance company hasn't given you full or fair benefits, talk to our lawyers today to find out what is your next course of action.

Of course, this does not remove the need for lawyers, nor even if a claimant has received an indication via the AI predictive system will the claimant necessarily wish to give up their case — though their lawyers could then perhaps decide to try a different approach.

Of course, another factor may simply be differences in information, but given that the plaintiffs» lawyers put out press releases when they file lawsuits, the information differences likely account for only a small part of the differences in lawsuit counts.

Based on my informal discussions with lawyers and the business community over the past year, it appears that the deal - making phase, lawyers pay a lot of attention to the terms of the deal but give much less thought to what happens when conflicts or unexpected events occur during the course of the arrangement.

Externships award course credit while giving students the opportunity to work for attorneys and build their lawyering skills.

From teaching law courses to judging negotiation competitions, Fillmore Riley's lawyers continue to give back to the law school that has educated so many of our province's lawyers.

Of course, lawyers have no God - given right to govern, and more occupational diversity among politicians is almost certainly a good thing.

Our greater Toronto area employment lawyers give clients the individualized attention they deserve throughout the entire course of their matters — from legal advice at first consultations all the way up to complex employment law litigation.

Of course, any lawyer will immediately recognize the disclaimer as useless, given that opting into something like Facebook puts users under a completely different set of rights and obligations.

So, in the early days I was one of a small group of lawyers who were asked to help out with «speaking notes» for non-partisan topics, such as the role of the Attorney General, children's rights, the responsibility of the legal profession to give back through community service and of course the importance of law reform.

For as long as Canada has been a country, and even before that, lawyers have been given the responsibility to govern their own profession, in the public's best interest, of course.

As lawyers, we are most comfortable when we are given weeks or months to prepare submissions that are often presented over the course of hours or even days.

Over the course of a career, most of these solos occasionally give serious thought to the idea of joining forces with another lawyer.

We're looking at the LTC4 competencies: it's focused training for lawyers to get their job done — so rather than putting them in a room and giving a standard Word training course, it's more tailored to suit their workflow.

Fold articling and bar admission courses into law school curricula + add a 4th year to law school for specialization: (1) because the great shortage of jobs compels more new lawyers to become sole practitioners earlier than they should have to, given the present law school course content and purpose; and, (2) because of the need to specialize earlier so as to increase the efficacy of their qualifications earlier; (3) articling jobs are now scarce, and increasing shortages of clients is causing law firms to more frequently and thoroughly use articling law students as a source of cheap labour.

Of course, students and young lawyers have a lot to learn when they join the profession, but law schools do not do the job they are supposed to do if they are not focused on what students need to know to able to give good advice to their clients.

More and more of them (give a mouse a cookie) also have been posturing to the public (conveniently for the psychology and social worker industry), that a proper «collaborative team» will «usually include» three mental health professionals, adding individual «communications coaches» for each party along with the neutral psychologist (none of whom of course, will be doing «therapy» and it would appear that it is only the lawyers in this professional bunch who will be at risk of professional malpractice).

After I got into real estate I realized that nothing in the real estate course material gave me any indication as to the relationship between the realtor and the lawyer.