Businesses have been using a variety of different systems which employ data analytics for far
longer than lawyers.
Not exact matches
We've
long seen businesses pay outside
lawyers or accountants rather
than bring them on staff, but now outsourcing has become more popular for a growing variety of services.
(Bloomberg)-- An investment fund that's seeking a payout from the Cuban government on more
than $ 1.3 billion in defaulted debt and back interest has hired the
lawyer who won a settlement for hedge funds in a
long - running legal battle against Argentina.
But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more
than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some
lawyer said the lease was too
long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!
The meeting, along with the multiple public references to the scandal, may have marked the end of a sordid chapter in the Church's life, although the victim organizations and their
lawyers continue the
long march through the courts and chanceries in search of payouts that now exceed more
than $ 2 billion.
But with less
than a week before the party's convention and only three largely unknown candidates — Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, conservative
lawyer Wendy
Long and Carvin — competing for the nomination, pressure may build for them to bow and make room for Turner.
Schnirman says his more
than $ 108,000 payout was calculated by
Long Beach staff and based on a city
lawyer's interpretation of the municipal code.
But from 1993 to 2007, she served as counsel and chief assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, supervising more
than 150
lawyers in Brooklyn and Central Islip,
Long Island, according to Newsday.
A
lawyer, she drew some attention toward the end of her service for sharing a residence with her husband in
Long Island, which was outside her Queens district, for reportedly filing for more
than one STAR exemption and for a spotty attendance during session.
So the mayor's defense
lawyers had recently been pushing Bharara to make a decision sooner rather
than later, by arguing that Bharara would be seen as «pulling a Comey» and putting his thumb on the voting scales if he waited much
longer.
Fewer
than 4 percent of registered city Republicans turned out to select
lawyer Wendy
Long as their nominee to challenge Democratic state Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall.
Lawyers for the state and a coalition of state employee unions have negotiated a settlement of the unions»
long - running federal lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of more
than 2,500 unionized workers who were laid off in 2003 by then - Gov.
But Corcoran and his supporters countered by pointing to his two decades of experience as a trial
lawyer, his ranking by an independent panel as more qualified for the job
than Walsh and his
long service to the party.
But Republican U.S. Senate hopeful George Maragos, who has been in the race
longer than either Rep. Bob Turner or
lawyer Wendy
Long, has lashed out in recent weeks at both candidates.
And once in law, there is a great deal of flexibility — unlike scientists,
lawyers usually do not have as much time and emotional investment in a career -
long project, so if a certain situation is not right,
lawyers can typically change jobs more easily
than researchers.
Unfortunately Samantha wants her inheritance in cold, hard cash and hires a
lawyer to get it for her, a
lawyer who turns out to be none other
than Jo's
long - lost love, Callum.
My
lawyer, Kim Roberts, also happens to be a producer with Sepia Films, so he knew exactly what he could push for and what was reasonable in negotiating the option agreement for me as well as what conditions would keep the project moving forward
than getting stuck in
long - term option hell.
In today's litigious society, where personal injury
lawyers are more
than happy to make a buck suing you, personal liability insurance is something that many people should think
long and hard about.
And as
long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and
lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more about global warming
than climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.
Environmental
lawyer and
long - time friend, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. has said «Ed has a greater sense of social obligation
than anyone I know.
What better way to entertain yourself and your family during the
long drive
than by listening to your favorite
lawyers.
But one recently launched blog written by a
long - time
lawyer strikes us as particularly noteworthy, if for no other reason
than the unlikeliness that it would ever exist.
He offered few details about himself, other
than that he now lives in Southern California, albeit temporarily, and is a
lawyer who has dabbled in technology for a
long time.
In consequence, concerns were expressed by
lawyers that if the anti-suit injunction remained an available remedy in other jurisdictions outside the European member states, then arbitral seats such as New York or Singapore would become more popular
than London, if London was no
longer capable of making such orders.
As he kicked off the mediation over the distribution of Nortel's almost $ 9 billion in assets in April, he reminded a room full of bankruptcy
lawyers that their aim should be on getting as much of that to creditors, including the company's pensioners, rather
than frittering it all away on
long - term litigation.
It might take her twice as
long as a research
lawyer, but she will cost less
than half per hour.
It is better to use an experienced
lawyer who works quickly but may be more expensive
than a cheaper
lawyer who takes too
long and does not maximise your prospects of winning.
I hazard that most
lawyers moving from one firm to another would hope that they will stay
longer than three years, hopefully
longer than five.
In Chapter 3, Mitch focuses the UK law firm Riverview Law, and suggests that its corporatized structure allows it to make «
long - term investments in technology and process to build an entity - based approach to legal services delivery, designing its legal service offerings to ensure client loyalty to the entity, rather
than client loyalty to a particular
lawyer or team member.»
Tory tough - on - crime policies
long on politics, short on solutions CRIMINAL LAW The failure of a tough - on - crime approach in the United States, where some states funnel more money into prisons
than schools, shouldn't be lost on Canadians watching the current government follow a similar path, says Toronto criminal
lawyer Graham Clark.
A final consideration is that the scope of legal advice privilege applies so
long as in - house
lawyers act in a legal rather
than an executive capacity.
Working with the wrong personal injury
lawyer may entail delays which could lengthen your case and leave you unable to obtain any funds you may be entitled to for far
longer than you may have expected.
Men will sometimes put up with a bullying senior
lawyer longer than a woman as it's part of the male code to tough it out and not show they are intimidated.
Aaron Street: Yep, and so, in this case, rather
than having a month's
long committee process to decide what we could build, and how to do it, and who should do it — a group of
lawyers without the help of non-
lawyers — was able to knock out a project in a day, and a couple days later ABA President Linda Klein highlighted it both for its innovation work, but also because of the importance of the substantive issues at play.
I had a case early on in my career that, I think it was maybe two years into me being a
lawyer, where it ended up going much
longer than I anticipated.
The author is a practicing
lawyer and
long - time legal journalist who has covered technology and the Internet for more
than two decades.
By quibbling over every motion, relevant or not, the
lawyer establishes to the opposition that he's in for the
long, hard haul, making settling the case look a whole lot better
than it otherwise might.
I realized I recently reached a «tipping point» where I have been a
lawyer longer than I have not.
While it may seem that
lawyers are being dumped on more
than ever, according to these
long - time practitioners, it's been ever thus:
When it comes to
Long Beach pedestrian accident
lawyers, there's no better choice
than the award - winning personal injury attorneys of Wilshire Law Firm.
Even more
than experience, you want a Columbus, Ohio, OMVI defense attorney or criminal defense
lawyer who will answer your questions, respond to emails and calls, and offer support throughout what can be a
long and difficult process of gathering evidence and dealing with detectives, prosecutors, and judges.
Take a law firm for instance... (T) here is a disincentive for
lawyers to act in a way that assures the
long - term interest of the firm, because acting in the
long - term interests of the firm will reduce the amount of money that each
lawyer makes in the short term... And success further compounds the problem... (E) ach successful year perpetuates a sense that this is the correct model... This gives law firms a distorted sense of reality... (where) greed rather
than proper business practice, is driving pricing to clients... (and creates) a firm that (will) be blown apart by the greed of a new group of partners... years from now (pp. 115 - 16).
Although
lawyers have
long relied on banks to hold client trust funds, ethics regulators never weighed in on whether one bank was more secure
than another; banks remained subject to regulation by the FDIC and other agencies because banking issues are beyond the scope of ethics regulators» jurisdictions.
But the 18 month ceiling for a provincial court case is actually a
longer period of time
than was typically acceptable under the previous guidelines — leaving defence
lawyers concerned that their clients will take
longer to reach trial.
If law societies regulated fees, I suggest it would have two effects (1) increase both the availability of legal services to the poor generally, and the size of the pool of potential clients who could seriously even consider retaining a
lawyer, and (2) in the
long term, change the character of the legal professional (as a collection of individuals) for the better by making the practice of law more like social work, rather
than drawing in the sorts of people who's skills are better employed in such fields as sales and business entrepreneurship.
Kathy is a trial
lawyer primarily, and while she is more
than capable of negotiating a settlement, she always treats every case as if it will go to trial, because she is very comfortable in the courtroom, as her
long history of successful verdicts and settlements proves.
If clients will no
longer pay for more
than the value that they derive from legal services, and as competition on price continues to intensify,
lawyers will be forced to control their costs and seek innovative ways in which to service their clients.
RBC's legal group, with 315 people including
lawyers, paralegals, and finance and administrative staff at more
than 20 locations around the world, decided that the way they had always been doing things no
longer met all those demands.
Admit to whatever mistakes you've made along the way and just own up to it and that's going to go a
long way towards getting a more favorable disposition
than those cases where the
lawyers don't respond, deny, and blame the client.
As a result of career -
long dedication to the field, John has tried more asbestos personal injury cases in the Kansas City area
than any other
lawyer or law firm.