Sentences with phrase «lawyers appear in court»

Although it's recommended that each mediating party retain a lawyer to advise them, divorce attorneys generally don't attend mediation conferences; instead, a lawyer drafts the final settlement papers, and the parties» own family lawyers appear in court to finalize the outcome.

Medical records can be obtained and witnesses can be interviewed during discovery, and often lawyers appear in court in front of a judge.

He said when his lawyers appeared in court, Justice Torkonoo «surprisingly purported to exercise jurisdiction over the contempt application although that was not the business of the day and gave a ruling vacating the earlier order she made dismissing the said application.»

On October 19, 2017 when the EFCC's ex parte motion was scheduled to be heard by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, Mrs. Jonathan's lawyers appeared in court, insisting that the commission's motion could not be heard in view of their application already filed to challenge the court's jurisdiction.

C. Parties and lawyer appear in court.

Not exact matches

Lawyers for Ailes and Carlson appeared in court in New Jersey as a federal judge sought to plot the course of the lawsuit in the wake of «rapid fire» motions from the parties, include Carlson's motion to block Ailes» attorneys» request for arbitration.

Cohen's recent legal works appears to have been limited, with his lawyer saying in court Monday that Cohen had 10 clients in 2017 and 2018, but only three to whom he provided legal services: Trump, GOP donor Elliott Broidy (for whom we found out last week Cohen had negotiated a hush - money payment) and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

Her lawyer, Saiful Malook, appeared in front of three Supreme Court judges at the first hearing today.

Daley's lawyers filed a motion last week asking Jacobius to toss out a subpoena compelling him to take the witness stand on the grounds that appearing in court would be a medical hardship.

A federal judge in New York has instructed attorneys for Trump, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen and the Trump Organization to appear in court Thursday amid an ongoing dispute about materials seized in an FBI raid earlier this month.

The ruling also calls for lawyers on both sides to appear in court as soon as possible, given the «urgency» of redistricting.

The speaker's claims that he is a personal injury lawyer are also a sham, according to the investigators, who say he hasn't appeared in court on behalf of a client in over a decade.

The three EC officials appeared individually before the Chief Justice in the company of their lawyers, at the office of the Judicial Service located at the Supreme Court on Monday.

Appearing in court with a lawyer gives a child a significantly higher chance of being able to stay in the country, Ms. James and advocates said, typically by proving they face a threat to their safety in their home country.

The three top EC officials today [Monday], appeared individually before the Chief Justice in the company of their lawyers, at the office of the Judicial Service located at the Supreme Court.

Kaloyeros appeared briefly in Albany City Court Friday morning as his lawyer entered the not guilty plea.

Human rights groups claim most have been held in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions in military detention facilities, without access to lawyers or ever having appeared in court.

Nassau County Legislator Carrié Solages appeared in court in his domestic violence case following his November re-election, with his lawyer signaling the Democratic official wants to talk to prosecutors about a possible end to the matter.

The Council has previously taken steps to help provide lawyers for unaccompanied minors appearing in immigration courts in New York, putting up funding to connect the children with legal services.

But Palin's lawyers and those representing the newspaper appeared at Manhattan Federal Court for a hearing in her defamation suit against the media giant.

HARLEM — The lawyer representing embattled Comptroller John Liu's former campaign treasurer Jenny Hou begged for donations to help pay her legal fees Monday night, hours before she was set to appear in court on a slew of campaign finance charges.

Stormy Daniels» lawyer, Michael Avenatti, spoke after appearing in federal court Friday to weigh in on materials seized from the office of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

But while de Blasio and Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks said investing in civil legal services was paying off big in terms monetary (it's cheaper to pay a lawyer than to house a family in a shelter) and human (in keeping families from homelessness), he wasn't ready to extend it to everyone appearing in housing court.

Cooper had been scheduled to appear in court in February as part of the criminal court case, but her lawyer, Vito Palmieri, said the case will now be dismissed.

Ryder's career was temporarily sidetracked in 2001, when she was arrested for shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue (here she appeared in court in 2003 with her lawyer, Mark Geragos).

After giving students sufficient time to read and process what appears in the story, the teacher should then inform the students that the parents of the ten year old have hired a lawyer, with the lawyer determined to «take this case all the way to the US Supreme Court.»

To oppose a discharge a creditor must hire a lawyer, who must appear in bankruptcy court and convince the bankruptcy court judge that the bankrupt should only be discharged if they fulfill additional conditions, which generally means «pay more money».

SDD Global's Head of Operations added that because his team made the defense affordable, the U.S. lawyers were able to focus on «strategizing, supervising, editing, and appearing in court.

The EDVA Update monitors and highlights opinions important in civil, bankruptcy, and criminal cases, and the blog is written by trial lawyers who frequently appear in that court.»

Kate Gosselin's failure to appear in court led lawyer Heller to embark on what Fox described as a «tirade» on the courthouse steps, calling Kate «the old lady who lived in the shoe» and claiming she was running up huge dinner tabs in Manhattan on the same day she appeared on TV complaining that she was broke.

A line - up of top UK law firms including Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) are set to appear before the Supreme Court of India next week, in the latest round of the long - running battle to open up the country's legal market to foreign lawyers.

Yet other lawyers» tasks, like advising clients, writing legal briefs, negotiating and appearing in court, seem beyond the reach of computerization, for a while.

Because the hearing was scheduled on an emergency basis, in front of judges located in different locations, the court conducted the hearing through a conference call without any lawyers or judges even appearing in a public courtroom.

We regularly appear in all Courts in [state], and we have lawyers available to assist those in police custody or prison.

For purposes of this article, a trial lawyer is one who regularly appears in court for personal injury claims.

An Indian technology lawyer and digital rights activist, Mishi Choudhary previously practised as a High Court and Supreme Court Litigator in New Delhi, and is also the only lawyer in the world to simultaneously appear on briefs in the US and Indian Supreme Courts.

Legal Document Assistants are not lawyers and do not offer legal advice, or appear in court on the consumer's behalf.

Facts: In Doré, a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec criticized a lawyer, who was appearing before that judge.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

«The purpose of Justice Bridge is to match the 85 percent of litigants appearing in court every day without lawyers with the recent law school graduates who don't have clients,» said program founder Deborah Ramirez, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

«While not commenting on this case directly, it must be said that lawyers should not be at risk when they are simply trying to ensure that their clients appear in appropriate attire before court,» said Neuberger.

It's not immediately clear to me why a judge on the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, would be a particular expert on e-mail etiquette for lawyers, but I thought there were a lot of good points in Judge Lebovits» article — which originally appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal — particularly the reminders on the absence of «tone» and on the need for brevity.

«I think as a result of that, I got some interesting, complex cases and had some prominent lawyers appearing in front of me,» he says, citing the overtime, Tim Hortons franchise, and Green v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce class actions as some of the major cases he handled during his time on the Superior Court bench.

Even in civil matters, if the client instructs the lawyer: to lie to the judge, tells the lawyer not to produce court ordered documents, follows instructions to create fairy tale reasons why his / her client in not appearing, and other matter of ignoring, delaying or evading pre-determined legal responsibilities, a bright - line must be drawn.

If we compared those goalies to lawyers, they'd not likely be appearing at a higher court level, unless called in at the last moment and forced to borrow other's equipment.

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Proceedings in a Gladue court can differ significantly from «traditional» criminal proceedings, and lawyers should familiarize themselves with these procedures before appearing before one.

To Judge Bolsby it was «inconceivable that the Legislature and Law Society [in enacting the Legal Aid Act] would affront a trial judge by compelling him to suspend the business before the court to allow a lawyer, not retained in any way, to interview a person appearing in answer to a charge.»

If a court date has been set, then you or your lawyer should appear in court on that day.

Some might argue that an exception exists in situations where the reader knows the writer — for example, when a well - known appellate lawyer appears before a state appellate judge, that lawyer has appeared before the court many times, and both have been professional colleagues within that legal community.