When advising clients on how to respond after a company has to deal with a problem such as a product recall, «
lawyers are cautious and rightfully so,» she says.
Should Canadian
lawyers be cautious too?
In this Prawfs post a few months ago, I speculated that green (i.e., young / junior) lawyers may have a uniquely important role to play in the emerging marijuana «green rush» industry: not only may veteran
lawyers be cautious and concerned about representing persons actively involved in state marijuana business, but marijuana reform often seems a «young man's game» for which junior lawyers may be uniquely positioned to be of service to persons needing legal help in this arena.
Not exact matches
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with
lawyers Ty Cobb, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, advised Trump to
be cautious with his public responses, but they
were a private sounding board for his grievances, advisers said.
Representing him with
cautious optimism
are the pilots» union headed by his friend and former colleague (Bruce Greenwood) and the accomplished Chicago
lawyer (Don Cheadle) they hire to cover themselves and minimize fallout.
The De Soles»
lawyers, Clarick, Crowell, and Reisbaum, told me that the case might compel galleries to
be more upfront, but would clearly make collectors more
cautious in the long run.
He
is also extremely aggressive in protecting his reputation though the courts hiring
lawyers known for their money wasting techniques, so the newspapers like the Sunday Telegraph who have already
been burnt for minor inaccuracies in theri reporting of his business intersts (I heard it cost them # 300,000 in damages)
are very
cautious about challenging his behaviour as Chairman of the IPCC.
It
's a fun challenge to keep up with the changing way people consume media and also
be especially aware of the unique (and highly
cautious) ways in which
lawyers approach the web and social media.
While I
'm very
cautious in recommending Facebook advertising for
lawyers, in some instances it may
be an effective advertising investment...»
But criminal
lawyers had the highest percentage who
were true problem - solvers (49.2 %) as opposed to
cautious problem - solvers or adversarial.
Lawyers practising in this area need to
be extremely
cautious and should
be careful to protect themselves by documenting advice to their clients in writing.
Skepticism
is likely behind some of the more
cautious approaches taken by
lawyers when it comes to business innovation.
Such an approach, it
is said, preys on
lawyers» overly
cautious tendencies and as a result, we
are anxious to include every possible fact that could arise at trial, just in case.
Honest but
cautious lawyers are worried about whether their holiday greetings
are going to attract the attention of officious bureaucrats while a hundred different kinds of phishing scams continue unabated.
Speaking at the Law Society of Upper Canada's recent Small and Solo Firms Conference, Richard Shekter, a personal injury
lawyer with Shekter Dychtenberg LLP, told
lawyers to remain
cautious until these questions
are settled.
Whether we call these software programs «predictive coding,» «technology - assisted review» or something else entirely, how do you know that they
are right for you as a
cautious and risk - averse in - house
lawyer?
Bonkalo's
cautious and common - sense proposal
was a response to the crisis of lack of representation among family litigants, who
are coming to court without
lawyers in record numbers — 57 % across the province.
This might
be due to the naturally
cautious disposition of
lawyers, but it
is vitally important to
be confident about one's ability to win work.
Gavin MacKenzie, of MacKenzie Barristers, says that, historically, courts have
been extremely
cautious in awarding costs personally against
lawyers because of their duties to bring forward even unpopular cases.
(I say «in theory» because, even with NotifyWorks, a
cautious lawyer may still want to follow - up with the client directly, or at least check back with NotifyWorks to
be sure it did what it
was supposed to do.)
The Young decision also confirms that courts must
be extremely
cautious in awarding costs personally against a
lawyer, as
lawyers are often retained to bring forward unpopular causes.
Be cautious about overworked
lawyers.
Our Family Joint Financial Expert
Lawyers note that the expert's estimated time frame and fee estimate might have
been overly
cautious and the Judge felt the report might
be completed more quickly and at less cost than the estimate.
You should
be cautious about
lawyers who discuss high profile clients.
You should
be very
cautious about hiring an injury
lawyer who
is charging those rates regardless of the amount of work that
is performed on the file.
Being a generally conservative and
cautious bunch,
lawyers are reluctant to change any wording they have learned or which practice has sanctioned, preferring the certainty of the known to potential ambiguity or uncertainty in something new, even when it
is closer to current non-legal usage.
The potential link between financial regulatory regimes and financial practice has attracted the attention of scholars.1 But the impact of the new financial revolution on the training of finance
lawyers has
been proceeding at a
cautious rate, at least in Canada.
Lucinda Moule, managing director of Laurence Simons, says: «Even though
lawyers are naturally
cautious creatures, the extent of their pessimism in 2011
is hard to understand when you look at their pay.
Just as
lawyers need to
be sure they understand how technology works before venturing to opine on its legal effect, so too do engineers need to
be cautious before attributing legal effect to their technologies.
I suspect and fear that many law firms and many veteran
lawyers will
be, for various sound reasons, very
cautious and concerned about representing any persons actively involved in state marijuana business.
As a father with two children who works as a car accident and injury
lawyer in Ontario, I
am naturally very
cautious on the road and very nervous about the driving habits that I sometimes see on the road.
The
cautious communicator
is a
lawyer willing to entertain media inquiries but she chooses to whom and how she responds with great care following a set of well - considered guidelines.
It
is not realistic to base the personal injury discount rate (DR) on the assumption claimants
are cautious investors, insurance
lawyers say.
To properly understand my
cautious concern, one needs to examine how it
is that we defence
lawyers get paid.
Judges and
lawyers,
are afraid of making these errors, proceed in an «overly
cautious manner»:
It
's hard to
be fired as a
lawyer, or vendor, for
being overly
cautious.
(5) I would
be cautious about hiring a collaborative
lawyer who belonged to an «interdisciplinary practice group» in which non-
lawyer mental health and financial professionals
were advertised as equal «collaborative practitioners» or «practitioners of collaborative law».
(3) I would
be cautious about hiring a collaborative
lawyer who seemed to hold assumptions in advance without adequate facts about what might
be good for me, my situation, my children, or my «family».
I
was abundantly
cautious that all parties to the contract knew exactly what
was going on and suggested they work with their
lawyers if they so wished.