Sentences with phrase «legal adversaries»

Patrick has also directed counter-discovery strategy against legal adversaries using computer forensics and digital investigations techniques.

The principles that drive our success are those found in most thriving organizations: Integrity, honesty, fairness in our dealings with our colleagues, our clients and our legal adversaries; an expectation of excellence in our work, through both mastery of the law and careful preparation; a common - sense approach to problem solving that respects and conserves our clients» resources; a responsive, service - oriented attitude in our working relationships; and a willingness to engage issues and opponents head - on when necessary, and win.

The NFIB Small Business Legal Center — a legal adversary of the Affordable Care Act and government regulation — recieved a total $ 3.1 million in grants in 2011, of which just over $ 2 million was provided through Donors Trust.

It's juice for a legal adversary.

How do you collaborate with a legal adversary?

If you were a lawyer in a divorce proceeding advocating for your client, would you be concerned with your legal adversary's client's concerns?

Not exact matches

• The NSA's internal «wiki» website characterizes political and legal opposition to drone attacks as part of «propaganda campaigns» from America's «adversaries.»

The essential concept of the public sphere is under siege from legal and extra-legal adversaries alike seeking to divide and conquer democracies by microtargeting neighbors into parallel realities using the tools of internet advertising and social media marketing.

As an expert witness myself, I've questioned while working on legal cases within the community, who would be my peer support if I were to face some sort of persecution within my practice by an unfamiliar or hostile adversary?

He then immediately filed his own bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding without any assistance of legal aid or an attorney.

I recently was asked several questions by someone who contacted me after reading my blog articles about dealing with student loan debt and who is considering filing a personal bankruptcy followed by an Adversary Proceeding (or as we also call it, a complaint) to prove the legal standard of Undue Hardship under Bankruptcy Code 11 USC § 523 (a)(8).

Finally fed up Ryan found legal help to reopen his previous bankruptcy case to commence an adversary proceeding and have this matter dealt with once and for all.

Despite that success, VantageScore and its credit bureau backers are trying not to give its adversaries any ammunition for further legal challenges — even if that means handicapping some of its operations and sales efforts.

He understands that every case is different and his legal services must take into account many factors including the nature of the legal matter involved, the experience and reputation of his adversaries and the venue of the action.

Our legal team's comprehensive knowledge of federal sentencing guidelines and prosecutorial strategies makes us vigorous adversaries in negotiations and in the courtroom.

There are many benefits of civility, starting with the recognition that life is too short to get caught up in unpleasantness and that, in any event, most legal matters involve lawyers who are simply trying to serve their clients to the best of their ability, and do not constitute battles between good and evil that warrant treating one's adversaries with contempt.

The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind lawyers to high - paying positions, worries about an over-saturated job market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the legal profession for security rather than having followed one's heart instead.

Wealthy fraudsters routinely outspend their adversaries by dragging out legal proceedings, with expert defence lawyers burying claimants in security for costs and disclosure applications.

The issue in the case on appeal was whether the plaintiff's medical negligence claim against Dr. Sweet, an expert witness, retained by plaintiff's adversary in the pending litigation, owed a legal duty to the plaintiff.

DAS provides legal expense coverage that can be purchased by individuals who need to pursue legal action, covering disbursements and adversary costs in the event of an unsuccessful case.

We were also able to capitalise on an advancement clause which required the partnership, including the other partners who were adversaries, to pay our legal fees.

'' [A] n attorney may not claim protection of the anti-SLAPP statute for publishing statements about an adversary at will, in hopes of shoring up his or her own position, attracting potential clients, or otherwise gaining a tactical advantage in an ongoing legal proceeding, even when that proceeding has, as here, attracted a good deal of public and governmental interest.

Daniel Markovits has, for example, argued that being an advocate in an adversary system necessarily involves lying, insofar as lying means «asserting a proposition that one privately (and correctly) disbelieves» (A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age (Princeton University Press, 2010adversary system necessarily involves lying, insofar as lying means «asserting a proposition that one privately (and correctly) disbelieves» (A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age (Princeton University Press, 2010Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age (Princeton University Press, 2010) p. 35).

Empathy is an important quality in a legal world swarming with adversary and hostility.

This day — known as the Day of Civility — was created to encourage legal professionals to aspire to the highest levels of courteous and professional interaction with judges, peers, adversaries, and workplace colleagues.

Those who are our adversaries in the legal process know that we bring to bear top legal skills for our clients.

But the great difficulty in international arbitration is that, as the rules on legal privilege and professional confidentiality vary from country to country and the Sealed Offer is unknown outside England and a few other countries, a party or its lawyer can not be confident that its adversary, its lawyer and the individual members of the tribunal will respect the confidentiality of a Sealed Offer.

When they are collaborating with colleagues to assess a legal matter, negotiating with adversaries, developing case strategies, building arguments, and presenting a persuasive case, attorneys are leveraging uniquely human skills.

Current adversaries on trial in a complex federal case, Mr. Rapoport and Ms. Henninger shared the importance of civility and professionalism in the legal arena and showed SSPI participants that even opposing counsel can have collegial relationships while advocating zealously for their respective clients.

The SC Supreme Court ruled that «in South Carolina, the assignment of a legal malpractice claim between adversaries in litigation in which the alleged malpractice arose is prohibited.»

View from the Plaintiff's Bar: Adapting Your Claims and Litigation Strategies to New and Innovative Theories Being Brought by Your Adversaries, ACI / LPL Legal Malpractice Conference (New York, May 2012)

Test legal theories or negotiation strategies with your peers before taking on your adversaries.

In 1947, the Supreme Court recognized the work - product doctrine in Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495 (1947), as a common - law principle that prevents the legal profession from «performing its functions either without wits or on wits borrowed from the adversary.»

Knowing where, when, and how to initiate legal proceedings in order to protect your business is a necessity if you want to stay one step ahead of competitors and adversaries, and avoid costly and potentially reputation - damaging investigations.

Managed discovery process for personal injury matters by propounding and responding to discovery demands and investigating and analyzing potential liability of clients and adversaries through fact investigation, legal research and dissemination of client adversary memoranda.

Far from native title agreements being a vehicle for a partnership between government and the traditional owner group to attempt to break the cycle of Indigenous disadvantage, they often represent nothing more than a settlement of a legal claim by adversaries.

To leave the consequences of these policies to litigation in private actions based on existing rights, in courts designed to settle legal rights by an adversary system within a relatively homogeneous community, is at once an insult to the Indigenous people and a prostitution of the courts.

Our legal system depends on the notion that two or more professional adversaries representing the parties to a dispute will draw forth all relevant information to the contest in the process of advocating their client's best position, thereby allowing the decision - maker to determine the «truth» and to make the best choices.

The primary reason for the debate is that PAS is a product of the adversary legal system, and the families in which the PAS is present believe (very naively) that the courts provide their best hope for resolving their disputes.