Sentences with phrase «looking at the lawyer»

Looking at the lawyers — the gap is 73 percent.

In other words, out in the real world, it is only within the past 50 years or so that clients have began to look at lawyers like other tortfeasors and seeking remedies for the damages they inflicted.4 As to the meaning and derivation of the term, let's look to the obvious source.

It's not often we profile a legal department the way we have in this issue, taking a look at the lawyers who make up the extraordinary team at Toronto Community Housing Corporation.

This week's Coast to Coast, the legal news podcast cohosted by J. Craig Williams and me, features two distinct segments, each with great guests: First we look at lawyers and pro bono.

You may want to look at your lawyer's track record and see what his or her percentage of winning cases is.

Here, look at the lawyer's great star ratings in drugs, criminal assault, and theft cases, to mention a few.

In that field, look at the lawyer's results related to DUI / DWI and driving without a permit cases.

You should start by looking at the lawyer's credentials.

But it would not be unreasonable to ask them to take a good, hard look at the lawyer monopoly on legal services.

As The Am Law Daily reported («Comic Maher Goes Ape Over Cooley - Repped Trump's Simian Sex Suit»), Maher also took some comic shots at Trump's lawyer, Cooley's Scott Balber, showing a letter from Balber and saying, «Look at the lawyer's signature — it just kind of trails off, as if to say, «I'm too embarrassed to even finish this.»»

The students have already posted advance looks at the lawyers who will try the case and the judge who will preside over it.

Looking at lawyers as consumers of social media, there are also guidelines to follow to avoid trouble.

In following these six, the film also «takes a whimsical look at lawyers, law and litigiousness in America.»

The survey suggests that in - house counsel are increasingly looking at lawyers» bios on web sites and following blogs to stay abreast of legal developments.

But as I looked at these lawyers - only sites, I was struck by how little networking went on within them.

Ok, I must admit, looking at lawyers, librarians are entitled to brag about embrassing the new millenium...

A dashboard user interface that provides the ability to quickly drill down into the detail of matter and billing data enables general counsel to compare external firms on price and performance for similar matters and to assess individual firms» performance over time — for example looking at lawyers» charge - out rates for particular tasks.

Looking at a lawyer's website will also give you a good idea of what type of law firm they practice in (e.g., is it a small or large firm, does the firm only specialize in one area of the law or do they have different attorneys working on different topics).

Our cover story looks at lawyers who opted out of private practice and are following a career in public service.

So, I liked your tip about looking at the lawyers website and seeing if that lawyer will be a good fit for you.

Take a look at the lawyers at your firm: Do at least 70 % of them have LinkedIn accounts?

Take a look at the lawyer cv template included here to get an idea of how yours should be formatted and the ways in which you can best present yourself.

Maybe you've looked at some lawyer ads or visited some websites, but, because most lawyer ads don't provide any useful information (they just want to get you in for a free or paid «consultation») you probably

You can have a look at our Lawyers List for a solicitor in your area who specialises in childcare law.

Has anyone had a look at lawyer fees lately?

Not exact matches

«You can hire a lawyer to just look at the paperwork to find out if you are on the right track.

In their analysis of the new legislation, lawyers at McCarthy Tétrault warned its «broad concepts and elements of uncertainty» could «place a heavy burden» on foreign companies looking to invest in Canada; the risk of a meddlesome minister torpedoing a deal is just too high.

But take a look at the ridiculous lengths to which Saskatchewan lawyer and class - action king Tony Merchant went just to avoid paying his tax bill.

Looking back at my ambition to become a lawyer, it looks less like a plan for the future and more like an alibi for the present.

«Following discussions between the committee's staff and his lawyers, Mr. Pearson looks forward to testifying at the hearing,» said Tom Orewyler, a spokesman for Debevoise & Plimpton.

Look for boards to tighten up independent standards over lawyers, compensation consultants, auditors, and themselves, to arrive at «non-conflicted directors getting non-conflicted advice.»

It's a look at how outsiders - a lawyer, two Wall Street traders, and a security guard at a pork and beans shop - used a passion for baseball and some computing power to show that the traditional yardsticks to value players were flawed.

The angel lawyer in me is first drawn - naturally - to a deal form bank at the back, where there is what looks like a term sheet for a light preferred stock offering that combines the NVCA model forms with Ted Wang's Series Seed.

And, he said, I'm so glad I never have to look at his face again in a trial - no American money will be spent giving him lawyers, dragging on appeals for years, etc..

And it's probably about trying to set her up to fail — look at that May 12th lawyer letter the day after the court order, the humongous list of things she would have to try to do.

Carl, you should look at what that lawyer does.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

God wishes to make beggars into Lords... Look about you at the courts of all the kings and princes, at the cities and the parishes... There you will find lawyers, doctors, counsellors, writers, preachers, who for the most part were poor and who have certainly all attended school, and who by means of the pen have risen to where they are lords.

Then the letter and theses were sent to the University of Mainz for the theologians and lawyers (most dangerous of combinations) to look at — these questions of theology were not Albrecht's forte.

And lawyers, people who study law, those who looked at just the facts instead of judging with their feelings, and a plethora of other people.

... the so called «deal» has hit a glitch — it appears to be subject to an area of «spanish law» which suggests lawyers will be looking at it and in the interim period neymar jnr will not be playing @psg until the arrangement is totally legit.

BT Sport will have to get the lawyers to look at his contract — there must be a 10p buy - out clause for «professional ineptitude».

Jan Komarek, a lecturer at the London School of Economics» European Institute and Department of Law, says that, as Article 50 is «silent» on whether a withdrawing member state could change its mind during the negotiation period, lawyers would have to look for other examples in international law.

Davies is now looking at the Glenn Mulcaire - Clive Goodman case, and says it's odd that he uses one of the most expensive lawyers in the country even though he's pleading guilty.

Murdoch says Crone did engage private investigators to look at plaintiff's lawyers.

«look, our legal people here at the Department have been looking at this issue... I'm not a lawyer, so I can't get into the complexity of it.

A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says the U.S. Supreme Court should look at his case after a federal appeals court tossed out his conviction and ordered a retrial.

In May, the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service set up a joint panel of detectives and lawyers to look at the reports of how some MPs were using the Parliamentary expenses.

«So she [the AG] went to the Supreme Court and discontinued the oral examination so that she could look at the terms of settlement and see if it was acceptable, or meet with his lawyers and agree on what the terms were with the option to come back in the event she was not satisfied with the terms,» he stated.

On a conference call, Finnerty said, after Kelly first explained that Lisa Percoco was the wife of a Cuomo aide, he immediately said «there's nothing illegal about it» and «we have an ethics opinion; we've had the lawyers look at it.»