Sentences with phrase «lawyers doing things on»

That's because «the Statement of Principles is not about lawyers doing things on their own behalf, but rather on the profession's.»

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While some things you can do on your own, it's best to consult with a lawyer when starting out, so you can make sure you've covered everything that you need.

The best thing you can do is to retain a divorce lawyer to get the best advice on what your options are.

«I just had this sense that if I could do anything in the world, I would do this justice lawyering thing where you are an advocate on behalf of people who don't have a voice and who are being abused by others,» he says.

I put my career as a lawyer on the side and devoted my professional life to finding a solution that helps moms nurse more comfortably and conveniently while enjoying the freedom to take care of all those other things moms need to do.

Lawyers consider paralegals professionals, respect them and rely on them for a lot of basic - level work, and recognize that there are many simple things that paralegals are perfectly qualified to do.

The feds and indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith agree on one thing: they don't want his upcoming bribery trial further delayed by the pregnancy of a co-defendant's lawyer.

All the actual lawyers who really know these issues are, of course, too busy doing other things (namely in a meeting on this very issue right now) to comment on this blog at the moment.

On all things law - related, I defer to Corporette so if you're looking for dressing guidelines that apply to lawyers specifically, do peruse her archive.

If there is a lawyer out there who sees potential in this (and not just in your fee, but is willing to work for the settlement only) that is one thing, but really to me it doesn't look like a good bet to try to insist on what you think the rules are vs what Chase says they are.

There's one easy thing you can do that most lawyers on social media agree is an excellent idea, and yet less than half of Americans do it!

Since they do not have lawyers, police or owners to resolve their disputes, they must rely on responsible use of their «weapons» to settle things.

The lawyer I was working with is trying to get them to put the settlement back on the table so that we can be done with this entire thing.

Money-wise I think I did better on my own... Education-wise, possibly I learned more from working with others... Although much of what I learned from others were negative lessons I could have avoided by not putting my work in jeopardy in the first place... By jeopardy, I mean leaving valuable things in a rental space where the gallery owner failed to pay rent - causing me to learn about lawyers & bailiffs & landlords seizing contents to try to sell my work to get their rent money... (you can't sell consignment work to recoup rent money but that doesn't stop them from trying)...

I want to do more background reading to get up to speed (I'm a tax lawyer with some undergrad physics, so I'm slow digesting this stuff), but there is one thing in your write - up that I'm having trouble with on a conceptual level.

As mentioned, it seems incongruous that out of all the things which the Law Society wants to make sure lawyers are doing, the * only * thing they will be required to attest to on an annual basis is their adoption and compliance with an ED&I statement.

The final word on The Playbook, for anyone considering undertaking a project like this, is that creating it turned out to be one of the most rewarding things I have done in my career as a solo lawyer.

«A Video Message to Stressed - Out Lawyers Living on The Pale Blue Dot Main Fish Got ta Swim, Birds Got ta Fly: Plaintiffs Lawyers Got ta Do Their Thing, Too»

Many childless lawyers and others in demanding careers believe that a «culture of parental privilege» permeates the workforce, allowing moms and dads to play the «parent card» to do things like leave work earlier or skip out on office emergencies.

Just like those jocks, some lawyers rely on their tough image to get things done.

«If we can take the things that don't need to be done by lawyers, you free them up to spend the time on what they should be spending it on.»

I don't think there's a real risk that business contacts will see things they shouldn't — really, a lawyer shouldn't be posting intimate or embarrassing things on their Facebook page anyway.

What I think is cool is lawyers are trained and built to get a ton of shit done, but ordinarily that's spread out among dozens of different things that we all need to be doing every day, and when you somehow persuade a whole bunch of people, a whole bunch of lawyers, to put everything else aside and focus on one problem all night, people were showing up in the morning with business plans drawn up, with connections made.

It's so cool and inspiring to watch lawyers get shit done in the way only they can when you ask them to focus on one thing.

Enforce those protocols for everyone, including senior lawyers (who can often be insistent on doing things a certain way).

I received such great feedback that I decided to start regularly posting about lawyers who leave the law and successfully move on to doing amazing things.

Too many lawyers just rely completely on outside «professionals» and end up being taken advantage of, simply because they don't know the first thing about the marketing strategy they are using.

One more thing to work on: developing a thick skin «As a first - year lawyer, all kinds of people are going to tell you that you aren't very good at what you are doing,» writes solo lawyer and blogger Sam Glover.

Our lawyers need to practice law, and while we certainly coach them on the benefits of strategic pricing, performance metrics and project management, we recognize that they simply can't do all these things as effectively as possible in addition to providing substantive legal advice.

I think part of the resistence of lawyers hiring non-lawyers stems from situations where a professional from outside the legal industry is hired, not given training on how things work in the legal environment, and then ultimately «fails» because they don't understand how things are done in our world.

Considering what a mess the Monday testimony and lawyer argument on the effect of the new claim construction was (because, frankly, both parties had previously hedged their bets as they didn't know what the appeals court would do), the jury is probably now very confused about it (and Judge Koh did the right thing by denying both parties» motions for judgment as a matter of law since there are reasonable arguments for and against infringement, for and against validity).

Sharon Nelson: Well, I should mention to the audience that I am very grateful to David who agreed to speak to the Virginia State Bar's Committee on the future of the practice of law and so I've had the pleasure of speaking with him before and you were absolutely marvelous to do that for us, and one of the things we talked about that day, as you'll recall, is how the American legal industry has remained stubbornly opposed to ABS in any form, so I'm going to repeat a question I asked you when you spoke to the Committee, why do you think American lawyers are so opposed to ABS?

Kevin O'Keefe: In essence it helps lawyers do a type of work they want to do for the type of clients they would like to do it for, and the Internet is a powerful tool in order to get that work, because the best lawyers I've been aware for 35 years practice or 17 and the best work comes by relationships and word - of - mouth, it doesn't come from advertising or pushing your message out and the feeling on most lawyers» part in most legal marketers» part is that they are talking about getting attention and that goes back to the days of Billboards, TV ads, yellow pages that type of thing, which is okay, which you may not have to resort to that or to fall to that, with the advent of the Internet.

However, speaking of losing functionality, there has been much sadness across the land as Apple has worked to make Pages on Mac and Pages on iOS essentially interchangeable, because doing so has resulted in the loss of some key things like mail merge, which may be a make - or - break for some lawyers.

It expands capacity to do things faster while still requiring lawyers to train, teach and review; creating the opportunity for lawyers to focus on more meaningful work (instead of voluminous, routine and mundane tasks).

Aaron: I think how it translates, how it ties into kind of the Gary Vaynerchuk model and how it's useful for lawyers to at least think about how they could be doing some stuff is there is now this trend in Facebook, Instagram videos of 1 to 2 minute videos with interesting video content and overlaid text that's kind of rapid fire overlaid text and you can convey by combining interesting visual content with well written but very short text content, you can convey a fair amount of information in just dozens of words, not even hundreds or thousands, and those at least in the current of multimedia online content are the kinds of things that are performing really well on the internet do a great job of conveying a small amount of information and are interesting for readers and catch them where they are because it is absolutely a fact that no one wants to read a law firm's full length press release about a case they won or an award an attorney got or whatever.

Again, like we were talking about earlier where we think that everything's different for lawyers, I've come to realize it's not and tapping into resources about marketing for non-lawyers, just any business, I've learned a lot about things like Google AdWords and the marketing pixels on your website, things that I'm able to do that aren't all implemented yet but they will be part of marketing of my digital product.

If you are doing the sorts of things that make people recognize you as a good lawyer in general, which is being active in your local legal community, publishing, speaking, and you make sure that your Avvo profile reflects those things, then get a couple of your colleagues who actually know you to leave a recommendation on your profile.

«Yet lawyers are going so fast doing so many things, that they don't actually write down their time notation as they're working on e-mails.

When considering a theme for this week's Blawg Review, one thing that struck me was that lawyers do not seem to spend nearly as much time screwing around on the web as your average employee.

Nevertheless, they did agree on one thing: «administrative» or purely «peripheral» information about a lawyer's account is presumed to be privileged, although that presumption may be challenged and rebutted.

I don't pretend I'm a change expert (except on my resume, obviously), but I have had some success in (1) convincing lawyers to just try the new shiny thing, and (2) actually incorporate it into practice.

She's an avowed modern natural lawyer, so you can sort of see how Mr. Vellacot got things twisted in his head the way he did, because your classic, historical natural law theory was espoused by people like St. Thomas Aquinas, who's views on law were certainly well - integrated with his religious beliefs.

I've tried to draw on the lawyer's propensity for doing things only after every possible risk has been analyzed and planned out of the matter under consideration.

On the whole, in a traditional law firm, the lawyers do a number of different things, ranging from marketing and lead generation through the actual legal work, and potentially even other activities.

I like to ask lawyers to look at what they actually do on the average day and imagine how great it would be to have some of these things automated with tools that learn what you need.

For many people who don't have the resources to contact a lawyer on things like residential leases or NDAs, LawGeex provides a great tool.

I don't know that we can really wrap that up in a tidy bow, but I suppose one thing to say is if you are a lawyer, you should spend the day in housing court or on a regular civil calendar call.

But if my Twitter poll is any indication, nearly a quarter of lawyers (at least lawyers that pay attention to this sort of thing on Twitter) don't even know what typography is.

She posts photos of herself riding subways with no pants on, which doesn't necessarily have to be everybody's brand, but the point is well taken that... The thing is lots of lawyers are afraid to express a personality and soulless personality, less beige lawyer law firm websites are a penny a million.