Sentences with phrase «lawyers against their clients»

Legal experts noted that federal authorities face an uphill climb in turning lawyers against their clients.

Not exact matches

In his statement of defence, O'Leary's lawyer Christopher Madill denies all of the allegations against his client and says the suit should be dismissed.

If a client seeks their lawyer's advice on a matter that could be illegal or expose them to criminal liability, and the client uses the advice to commit a crime or act of fraud, the attorney could be asked to testify against their client.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

Tapper pressed the lawyer on the allegations of physical violence against his client, asking Avenatti to explain if they were anonymous threats or from someone potentially affiliated with Trump or his circle.

In court their lawyer Moshkani Farahani, who had previously argued against the charges faced by each of his clients at the last court session of this trial on 24 November, said they should be released.

However, lawyers advise clients to not comment all the time since it is very easy for opposing lawyers to use your own words against you.

Lawyers defending Spira against federal charges that he tried to extort money from Steinbrenner contend that Steinbrenner used his Tampa connections to engineer their client's indictment.

Lawyers for controversial PR firm, Smarttys, are threatening legal action against media houses, who they claim, are «mischievously» associating their client with «a supposed $ 92m contract under the national electrification project».

Her young lawyer, Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), realises that, against popular mood, his client may be innocent and is being used as bait to catch the only conspirator to avoid capture — her son.

«The charges brought against Mr. Aiello and Mr. Gerardi reveal how completely innocent business practices can be twisted by the government into allegations of criminal conduct, despite our clients» full cooperation from the start of this process,» the lawyers said.

The judge had earlier been asked to discharge the jury by Coulson's lawyer, who said Cameron's comments would have prejudiced jurors against his client.

The revelations come as lawyers for Ciminelli and two other LPCiminelli executives are asking for charges against their clients to be dismissed or tried in Western New York.

Lawyers for the accused persons have said the prosecution has no evidence against their clients but will, however, wait patiently for the AG.

One of his lawyers, Victor Kodjoga Adawudu, told the court the charge of narcotics leveled against his client was not an offence under the extradition laws of Ghana for which his client must be sent to the UK for prosecution

His lawyer, Victor K. Adawudu confirmed the charge against his client on TV3's News360 almost 8 hours after the Police CID in Accra picked Anyidoho up for interrogation over comments he made suggesting an imminent coup d'état in the country.

Lawyers for Ciminelli, Schuler and Laipple sought to highlight for the judge what they called various legal flaws in the case U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought against their clients.

Lawyers for Charlotte Osei also demanded the list of workers who were behind the petition «to enable us commence legal action against them for the defamatory statements contained in their petition failing which our client will be constrained to proceed against you alone as defendant in the suit our client intends to commence against them since you are to all intents and purposes, their agent.»

Meanwhile, at the Thursday's proceedings, the presiding judge, Justice Adeyinka Oyinloye, awarded a punitive cost of N20, 000 against SaharaReporters, after its lawyer, Mr. Stanley Imhanruor, from Femi Falana's chambers, withdrew a motion he had earlier filed on behalf of his client.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is taking it on the chin these days for accepting campaign contributions from defense lawyers who represented high profile clients — including two of President Donald Trump's adult children and disgraced ex-Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein — against whom he declined to bring criminal charges.

The Court, according to counsel to the plaintiff, Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos based human rights lawyer, was to established whether Luke and his security aides had fallen foul of the law, against his client and sought damages amounting to N100million as well as additional N400million as exemplary damages.

Stephen R. Coffey, a lawyer for Mr. Ortt, said that the charges against his client apparently stem from documents filed by the Niagara County Republican Committee that omitted payments to Mr. Ortt's wife by a Niagara County marketing firm.

Seabrook's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the conspiracy indictment against their client because evidence being used against him was found during unrelated wiretaps.

Lawyers for Ciminelli, Schuler and Laipple sought to highlight what they called legal flaws in the case against their clients.

Eli Stone is another lawyer hour disguised as feel - good rehabilitation fluff, with Eli now compelled to use his sharklike courtroom mojo to take up the causes of wronged underdogs against the kinds of heartless corporate clients his blue - chip firm typically represents.

Lawyers don't take action against their clients.»

I consider it a strike against a lawyer to be one who hogs the limelight as opposed to lawyers who put the client in front while the lawyer concentrates on winning the case.

«while Irving chose a fool for his lawyer (by representing himself in his spectacularly failed libel suit against historian, Deborah Lipstadt), Mann's lawyers appear have saddled themselves with a fool for a client.»

``... there is something inherently troubling about a billing system that pits a lawyer's financial interest against that of its client and that has built in incentives for inefficiency,» the decision states.

Then, lawyers at the firm Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro — the firm founded by the lawyer who offered the reward in the first place, Raymond P. Niro — sought to depose Frenkel in connection with their suspicion that he was in cahoots with the firm Fish & Richardson in its lawsuit against its former partner and now Niro client Scott Harris.

When a former client accused him of acting in conflict of interest, lawyer Williams Hoskinson brought an action against the client, Rodney Slagter, on the basis that he never acted for Slagter and his company.

Comment 16 to the rule requires a lawyer to «act competently to safeguard information relating to the representation of a client against inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure by the lawyer or other persons who are participating in the representation of the client or who are subject to the lawyer's supervision.»

The goal is to produce a good survey on how web tools can strengthen client service, and how lawyers can use the web to compete against commoditized services.

Thus, by sending client documents overseas, lawyers may waive their clients» Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search, or compromise the attorney - client privilege.

Texas criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett strongly disagrees, and he makes some good arguments against using Dropbox for client files.

Trade lawyers are facing calls from clients to help them understand the actions the Trump administration has taken against China

In many states, a lawyer can assert an attorney's lien against a client's property that was the subject of the lawyer's representation, which can be an effective way to ensure collection of a lawyer's fee.

A personal injury law firm has won its case against an insurer which settled claims with clients behind its back, in a major victory for claimant lawyers.

Or, if the ILA was improperly given, might it give the lawyer receiving the certificate of ILA or his or her other client a claim against the lawyer giving the ILA?

«The client's right to be protected against the disclosure of their confidential communications with their lawyers is a cornerstone of the rule of law, and has existed for centuries.

Most notably, Bluford had, at the time, recently agreed to have a $ 559,330 judgment entered against him to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients who had sought legal help from another company he ran, California Legal Pros, which provided non-lawyer legal help.

Lawyers need to guard against their own tendency to leave no stone unturned and give critical consideration to how much work is absolutely necessary in a given matter, with the caveat that they must make the tradeoffs clear upfront to the client, Calloway says.

As I first reported in a post here two weeks ago, the CEO of this California - based startup — who was slated to be featured during a lightning round on legal innovation at Legaltech West Coast — recently agreed to have a $ 559,330 judgment entered against him to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.

As I first reported on May 26, 2016, in a lawsuit filed against him by two former clients, Bluford stipulated to a judgment against him in the amount of $ 559,330 to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and swindling two clients.

One topic not likely to come up during the panel is Bluford's recent agreement to have a $ 559,330 judgment entered against him to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.

The opinion recites four considerations that would tend to establish an ethical duty for a lawyer to warn the client against using a business device or system for electronic communication: Where the client has already communicated by electronic means or has indicated an intention to do so; where the client is employed in a position that would provide access to a workplace device or system; given the circumstances, the employer or a third party has the ability to access the email communications and; that as far as the lawyer knows, the employer's internal policy and the jurisdiction's laws do not clearly protect the privacy of the employee's personal email communications via a business device or system.

He is known for fighting hard on his clients» behalf against insurance companies, and their team of lawyers, investigators and doctors trying to deny his clients rightful compensation.

As a lawyer, your protection against this is a client intake system that ensures that you communicate with every prospect that contacts your law firm.

It is curious to note that more firms have started to (1) hold the billing or responsible lawyers accountable for client advances if payment is not received within a prescribed time, especially if retainers are not obtained from these clients at the inception of the matter, or if deposits are not received from these clients prior to incurring the advance, and (2) set «credit limits on cash advances» with prohibitions against the accounting department accepting requests for client advances in excess of a predetermined minimum amount, without prior approval of the managing partner.

As prior big - firm lawyers, we know how insurance companies and large corporations defend against these claims and use this knowledge to help our clients.