Sentences with phrase «lawyers look me in the eye»

Young lawyers look me in the eye and ask, how am I supposed to carry on with my life?

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Looking to fields of study such as composition and rhetoric theory, legal writing scholars including Anne Ruggles Gere, 2 Laurel Oates, 3 and Linda Berger4 helped us to learn more about the ways we write and read as lawyers and teachers.5 Other scholars like Kristen Tiscione began to do empirical work, surveying practicing lawyers and judges to learn more about their preferences, which writing techniques worked, and which didn't.6 Both in the Legal Writing Journal and in other publications, legal writing scholars turned their eye towards the question of how we read and how we write, and developed a strong body of scholarship that has enriched the discipline and supported how we teach legal writing in the classroom.

Secondly, from my trial experience as a lawyer, I wanted to be able to keep my eye on the witness as much as possible, for often it is a look, or a body movement or some other physical action of the witness that is critical in assessing credibility or reliability of a witness's testimony.

In Ontario, the Law Society of Upper Canada can look at all a member's files without regard to solicitor - client privilege (i.e. between the lawyer / member and the client — anything between the lawyer / member and his / her own counsel would be barred from the Law Society's eyes).

The inside counsel must believe that the outside lawyer, whom he looks in the eye, will deliver great service at the right margins with high quality.

«A very simple, but wise, little book literally changed the way I looked at my career and life... I know, eyes are probably rolling, but when I left my large law firm after 16 years, and in my 40s, to start a new firm with a group of lawyers and co-workers, this book confirmed I was making the right decision.