Sentences with phrase «lawyers about their failures»

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In a recent column, I wrote about market failure as a consequence of lack of consumer information potentially leading to a race to the bottom as high quality lawyers and paralegals (the «peaches»!)

To be sure, most lawyers eventually collect all the relevant facts, interests, goals, and concerns of the client; but a failure to look for, ask about, and consider the whole system of these factors will make the process unnecessarily inefficient, slowing the development of trust and confidence between the lawyer and the client, rather than building it.

I will tell you, every time I talk about ABS to American lawyers they cite the failure of the Australian firm Slater and Gordon as a black mark against ABS itself.

Blackmun found that the absence of lawyer ads hurt the legal profession, holding that «the absence of advertising may be seen to reflect the profession's failure to reach out and serve the community,» and that many people in need of legal services do not contact an attorney because they worry about pricing or finding a competent lawyer.

A blogger's posting about a lawyer - couple's lawsuit against their neighbor for her failure to abate cigarette smoke seepage from her apartment into a common hallway ignited a swarm of flames against lawyers for their aggressive, obnoxious and money - grubbing ways.

This weird Facebook ownership lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia has been going on for a while now, but it's noteworthy how many lawyers have taken on the case and withdrawn — especially given that Facebook is now talking about bringing actions against prior attorneys for Ceglia based on failure to report evidence of fraud to the court.

I wouldn't limit it to small firm lawyers at all but it's rampant in small firm lawyers that will regularly talk to people who say, «Oh yeah I know I should be doing that but,» and I guess that's the challenge and is one of the things that I think is kind of scary about the small firm industry is how frequent the, «I know I should but,» becomes a hindrance to success in small firm practice and therefore there ends up being a lot of small firm failure when there could be success if people would develop some skills, habits, commitment to learning to focus on their business as a business while still being great lawyers to their clients.

In a 2005 study about clients satisfaction / dissatisfaction with big law firms, fifteen percent of the respondents said what bothered them about their lawyer was «lack of client focus, failure to listen, non-responsiveness, arrogance.»

failure to warn clients about the applicable limitation period (this becomes a problem if a client ceases to retain a lawyer and then misses a limitation period).

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Representation of banking lawyer in suit by FDIC over failure of community bank and litigated issues related to scope of attorney's duty regarding due diligence about borrower.

The things that clients complain about most with their lawyers amount to soft - skill breakdowns — failure to listen, failure to empathize, failure to set expectations, failure to communicate.

The failure of the motion comes as welcome news to many lawyers who expressed their concerns about a system that would remove free choice from the articling hiring process.

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There has been a failure of imagination (on all sides) about a debate that tends to consider the real experience of people with legal problems only through their possible interaction with lawyers.

The vendor was 10 per cent liable for the cavalier, careless, wanton failure to ask rudimentary questions of his lawyer when noting conflicting information about on - site parking.