Sentences with phrase «make about lawyers»

With law firm regulation, there is a real chance that we can reduce the number of complaints that the public make about lawyers.

Earlier this year, the ABA Journal asked 12 prominent lawyers who teach film or are connected to the business to choose what they regard as the best movies ever made about lawyers and the law.

In The 25 Greatest Legal Movies, the August ABA Journal asks 12 prominent lawyers who teach film or are connected to the business to pick what they believe to be the best movies ever made about lawyers and the law.

I take a lot of comfort from finding a firm or lawyer mentioned favourably in Chambers and I generally find the comments made about lawyers or firms have been reflected and borne out by our experience.

Not exact matches

Still, the «Parks and Recreation» actress thought about becoming a lawyer until the OJ Simpson trial made her disillusioned with the justice system.

Although no recent First Amendment cases could be seen to apply directly to the publication of tax returns from a candidate for president, lawyer Floyd Abrams said that «all the cases make it extremely unlikely that the Times could constitutionally be held liable for publishing such a newsworthy story, a month before a presidential election, about a candidate for President.»

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«Everybody worries about making mistakes,» he says, «but when it comes to choosing between working 24 hours [and risking] having your mental faculties function at less efficiency, and spreading that out over more time, most lawyers would tell you the former is more likely to result in fewer mistakes.

Christian rights lawyer Zhang Peihong, who has represented Christian activists in China, said he had not expected Tillerson to make a big deal about human rights.

Corporations just want to make sure their trading costs are contained and are indifferent about who is on their side, said one lawyer in Washington who has worked on derivatives reform.

So Trump's tax return could tell how much income they made, offering fresh information about the financial health of his organization, according to Robert Kovacev, a lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson and former Justice Department Tax Division official who represents taxpayers in high - profile tax disputes with the IRS.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

«Wealthy Chinese want to make a statement about their social status and what they wear, but they're getting a little more subtle,» Hansi Men, an investment immigration lawyer at Streit & Su law firm, told Business Insider.

President Trump said that lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to the adult - film actress to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.

Equifax's lawyers at Choate, Hall & Stewart had argued (among many other things) that the AG can't wield the state consumer protection law, which prohibits businesses from making false, deceptive or unfair claims, without showing anyone was harmed by Equifax's supposedly false assurances about data security.

A lawyer for Melania Trump said news organizations had made «false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an «escort» in the 1990s.»

In an email, the lawyer, Charles J. Harder, said Ms. Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, «has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an «escort» in the 1990s.»

President Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.

Although Kulikov's criminal prosecution makes no mention of the German lender by name, investigators did quiz several witnesses in detail about Deutsche Bank and the mirror trades, say lawyers and witnesses in the case.

Here's the letter that its lawyers sent to Judge Griesa about its plans, and it is a nervous letter: One could imagine that even shutting down the custody business (and transferring its assets to another bank) will enrage the judge, since a new custodian will probably make it easier for Argentina to pay off the bonds that Judge Griesa is dead set on preventing it from paying.

President Trump made a rare public comment about the Michael Cohen - Stormy Daniels case Thursday morning, playing down the lawyer's work for him and insisting that he didn't know about Cohen's business activities.

We want to make sure that it's thoroughly vetted and that we're working with reputable partners, so we're also partnering with AARP, GLAAD, and Glenn Singleton from Pacific Education Group, consultant Barbara Tint, and Professor Natasha Bowman, who is a former lawyer and lecturer and talks a lot about discrimination in the workplace and diversity.

22) Alex van der Zwaan: This London lawyer pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates and another unnamed person based in Ukraine.

If the case makes it to the discovery phase, Zervos's lawyers will be able to request memos, emails, and other documents from the Trump campaign to see if Trump was telling the truth about his conduct with Zervos, Marcus said.

Former private practice lawyer, New York major and presidential candidate Rudi Giuliani stole the headlines this week for all the wrong reasons with an unexpected and unprecedented about turn on payments made by President Trump to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Trump stressed that campaign funds weren't used to reimburse Cohen, and said that the purpose of his lawyer's nondisclosure agreement with Daniels was «to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair.»

Many laypeople are doctors, lawyers, teachers, executives — but even those who repair cars or raise corn use complex computer programs and have to make judgments about the state of the economy.

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.

Guys who are executives, lawyers, or some such are the only ones you hear about making the oh - so valiant choice to stay at home.

Bettina — this reminds me of Alton Brown and «Good Eats» where the food safety version of the MiB shows up and give him all sorts of grief, probably in cases where risk - averse regulatory types and litigation - nervous lawyers, about things he wants to do (like making hollandaise or even carpaccio.)

When you buy or sell a house, the real estate lawyers make you initial every page of the P&S, as if you've actually read the fine print about lead paint, balloon payments, easements, etc..

In a court hearing, Huntley's lawyer made some fantastical accusations about the capitol — that senators were carrying bags of cash up elevators, that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was dirty — but prosecutors noted many of Huntley's statements were «implausible.»

His lawyers are expected to argue that Anas, after petitioning the president to remove him from the bench because of the acts complained about on the video, violated the constitutional provisions by proceeding to make the evidence public.

That instead of the Russian lawyer lying about having proof that Clinton was taking money from the Russians when she just wanted to talk about how the Magnitsky Act was impacting adoptions, there was an agreement made whereby someone did something illegal at the behest of Don, Jr. or someone else as a result of a specific agreement.

Lawyers acting on behalf of the secretary of state argued that unpaid carers should be treated as unemployed people who should make the same decisions as anyone else about living costs.

Lawyers and parties are barred from making any further comment to the media about a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who was incorrectly declared dead in the emergency room of DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda.

The man captured on video making xenophobic comments about Spanish - speaking employees at a New York deli has been identified as lawyer Aaron Schlossberg in a formal complaint filed with the state court disciplinary system.

the comments they made about the African Court's Interim Measures was that it was not directed at them (Supreme Court), but rather it was directed at the Attorney General and the government of Ghana, and that our lawyers and the African Court must notify them officially.»

Financial disclosures filed last year show 24 lawmakers, mostly lawyers, were making about as much or more in outside income as their $ 79,500 base annual pay from the state.

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

12:05 - Speaking about 2007 Murdoch says: «I should have thrown all the lawyers out of there, cross examined [Goodman] myself and made up my mind whether he was taking telling the truth.

Guy, a Syracuse lawyer, has made no formal announcement about his candidacy.

Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, a Democrat from Rockland County, asked members of the industry a series of questions about possible regulations, including whether an age limit of 18 or 21 was appropriate (18, a FanDuel lawyer replied), whether information about problem gambling was made available (yes, through an outside link, Schiller said), whether there are prohibitions on employees of sporting teams who might have inside knowledge playing (no, because their knowledge would be a statistically insignificant advantage, the companies said) and whether players were limited in their number of entries they could make in a given day.

In court papers, defense lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood to exclude evidence of statements the son made that the father knew nothing about.

(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.

Kathy Zabinski, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, said last week that union lawyers were reading the plan to make sure it didn't constitute as age discrimination, but she didn't have any concerns about it.

Mei testified Monday that got his first bribe from Singh after Mei joked about how much money other lawyers made from loan closings.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.