Sentences with phrase «lawyer performing the work»

And lawyers performing work more efficiently and predictably, so firms can right - size their bids and their budgets.

Not exact matches

He performed many functions beyond the normal work of the ministry, being on occasion teacher, lawyer, doctor, and statesman.

Defense lawyers said the payments Percoco received, including $ 35,000 in cash and a $ 90,000 - per - year job for his wife, were legitimate fees for consulting work performed at a time when he was out of state government.

Defense lawyers said the payments Percoco received, including $ 35,000 in cash, were legitimate fees for consulting work performed at a time when he was out of state government.

November 10, 2015 Lawyers from Weitz & Luxenberg testified that Silver didn't perform any actual legal work since he joined the firm in 2002.

Defense lawyers had said the payments Percoco and his wife received were legitimate fees for consulting work performed at a time when he was out of state government.

Linda Mangano's lawyer has attempted to show his client did some work for Singh and that statements she made about the work she performed, which the government alleges are lies, could be interpreted as the truth.

Percoco was insistent that he'd gotten approval from state lawyers for the work he performed, and that none of it involved state contracts, she said.

His reference to the payment being for «services last year» raises additional questions of what work those lawyers have performed in the past 6 1/2 months.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

My concern is, many Realtors are just trying to make a living wage right now, there have got to be just as many Lawyers out there looking for the next great opportunity... I really believe it is going to be the unfortunate Realtors that regardless of how well (or poorly) they performed on the short sale, that are going to get sued because the Seller will have get some sort of financial demand down the road and will have long forgotten all of the hard work and disclosing the Realtor did on their behalf during the short sale process.

However, fees may vary between a San Jose Lawyer and a small town lawyer and may also reflect other work performed by the lawyer that is outside a typical transaction.

For this reason, they perform thorough assessments of your firm, then they put their in - depth expertise to work to recommend the integrated lawyer marketing solutions that best fit your needs and budget.

You would get dressed up in a suit, commute to work, pretend like you knew how to perform basic lawyer tasks (until such time as you actually did know how to perform them), and collect a paycheck for your efforts.

There is also a disincentive for clients in HST provinces using B.C. lawyers to perform commercial work that relates to B.C. (even if B.C. lawyers are within the same national firm, working from the Vancouver office), if there is no ITC available on seven per cent of the bill.

Fuelled by Big Data, increased computing power and more effective algorithms (a routine process for solving a program or performing a task), AI has the potential to change the way that legal work is done, the way that law firms conduct business and the way that lawyers deal with clients.

The present method of legal services delivery is the «handcraftsman's» method, i.e., the same lawyer or group of lawyers performs all stages of the work necessary to delivering the finished legal service to the client.

The end result is that few clients will tolerate lawyers who bill time for doing work that does not require a law degree, and the amount of «bespoke» legal work performed by lawyers will shrink as far as possible.

«Technology that automates tedious tasks, while not a panacea, can free up lawyers» time to perform higher - level, more intellectually satisfying work which clients would be willing to pay for.

Social media helps us build relationships with little financial outlay - we only need to invest our time (of course, for a lawyer, time is money, but if you can't spend your time performing billable work, then at least spend it building relationships that represent «assets» for which the payoff will come in the future).

«As lawyers in Ontario, we need to be concerned with what is legal work,» he says, and whether the public interest is being served by who is performing it.

Many lawyers in this class were upset, he says, because on the one hand they were told that they needed to be members of the bar and insured by LawPRO, the errors and omissions insurer owned by the Law Society of Ontario, in order to perform the document reviews, «but they were also told that high school students could do this work.»

«Technology that automates tedious tasks... can free up lawyers» time to perform higher - level, more intellectually satisfying work which clients would be willing to pay for.»

According to Rule 1.5 (e), such a division is permissible in only two instances: (1) the lawyers may agree to divide the work involved in the representation and divide the fee based upon the proportion of the work performed by each or (2) they may both accept joint responsibility for the representation.

In the retainer meeting, you can specify what work you would like your lawyer to perform.

If some legal work can be solely performed by technology, and other portions can be performed by team members supported by technology, process and workflow, how many lawyers does a law firm really need?

We don't want our clients to pay lawyer rates for work that can be performed by a nonlawyer, such as the myriad of phone calls and correspondence associated with getting all the relevant parties and materials in one location for a mediation.

She teaches continuing legal education courses, assists bar associations with lawyer training events, and performs pro bono legal work.

Noting that there is momentum toward moving some elements of the practice of law to other licensed professionals, the report also beautifully states that much of the work can, and should, be performed only by lawyers:

As such, lawyers must approach client marketing in a way that encourages them to understand their clients» business goals and identify opportunities that add value to the work performed.

The work of lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and litigation support personnel is increasingly being performed by legal service providers on the other side of the globe.

Rather, work is performed in an open - door environment with ideas being freely exchanged among lawyers of all levels of experience.

But, by the time the lawyer later realized the significance of the issue, he had already performed hours of work — which, according to the retainer agreement the client had signed, was time that he would be paid for.

They had typically performed above average in their tax law courses in law school, and usually during their articling program and summer internships they have worked under the close supervision of income tax lawyers of a tax law firm and decided to specialize in tax law when they became practicing lawyers.

One final example from a friend who told me that she had recently contacted a lawyer's office and inquired about some legal work she needed performed.

However, firms are not required to disclose the cost differential for legal work performed by U.S. lawyers, whereas disclosure of mark - ups are required for foreign lawyers.

The above solution would establish CanLII as a comprehensive support service in place of the present «handcraftsman's method» of legal services delivery, whereby the same lawyer or group of lawyers perform all stages of the work necessary to delivering the legal service to the client.

Jason Luckasevic, the lawyer, had an older brother in the midst of a medical residency who was working under a Nigerian forensic pathologist who happened to perform autopsies on ex-pro football players and found a startling amount of goo - for - brains within, and when he reported his findings in public, was smeared and attacked by the NFL.

Second, even though almost all of the work lawyers perform today involves digital tools, few law schools (with the notable exceptions of Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of Calgary and Thomson Rivers University) offer any type of substantive training in the use of technologies.

If the client is not satisfied with the lawyer or if the lawyer is unable to perform the work, the client has 10 days to cancel their choice and may select another bid.

A group of lawyers first performed artist Helen Knowles» work, The Trial of Superdebthunterbot, at an April 2015 group exhibition.

Such rules don't apply to legal work performed by lawyers admitted to practice in U.S. jurisdictions.»

They include «failing to disclose that the legal work is routinely referred to other lawyers for a fee rather than being performed by the lawyer;» «misleading about the size of the lawyer's practice or the areas of law in which the lawyer provides services;» «referring to fee arrangements offered to clients without qualifications;» and «advertising awards and endorsements from third parties without disclaimers or qualifications.»

This non-engagement letter serves as a friendly reminder that as of the writing of the letter the prospective client has not hired the lawyer to perform any work at all, but does not give the client the impression that the lawyer is not interested in representing the client in the matter if the client chooses to move forward.

Hulk Hogan's lawyers say the bill was high in part because lawyer rates were charged for work performed by paralegals.

The division must also be either proportionate to the work performed or each lawyer must assume joint responsibility.

Most lawyers know why it is important to have an engagement letter or retainer agreement that memorializes the work they will perform for a client, the fees and expenses to be charged and the firm's billing practices.

transition clients to other lawyers competent to perform their work, etc..

Historically, this discrepancy wasn't a problem because the best way to deliver those outcomes was to have our lawyers manually perform the work and then bill for their time.

If the work that gave rise to the claim was referred completely to an independent paralegal (not an employee or working in association with the law firm) to be performed without the lawyer's ongoing supervision, with the client's knowledge and approval and with no indicia that might lead the client to believe that the paralegal and the lawyer were partners or employer / employee, liability for the claim would likely be the paralegal's alone.