Sentences with phrase «memorandum opinion»

The processes of screening cases and deciding to hold oral arguments are explained, as are the methods of deciding whether to publish an opinion and whether to issue a summary affirmance or memorandum opinion.

On March 16, she issued a memorandum opinion and order denying Trenkler's request for a new trial.

A recent memorandum opinion from Kansas in the United States Bankruptcy Court against Persels and Associates and attorney Stan Goodwin didn't probably wind up how Persels would have wanted it to.

Although the memorandum opinion and order released Friday denied Silver's motions to dismiss the indictment based on Bharara's «prejudicial extrajudical statements,» United States District Court Judge Valerie Caproni warned the Manhattan federal prosecutor «that this case is to be tried in the courtroom and not in the press.»

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The Vice-President at the time (now President) acted in concert with Dr. Oteng Adjei, (the Minister for Energy) in by passing my legal opinion to them on the EO Group case and smuggled a memorandum to the President for an executive consent to enable the EO Group to assign their shares to a buyer.

There are three options that you may have for accessing proprietary materials such as: Sample Memoranda of Understanding, Model Contract Language, Teacher / ESP Staff Commitment Contracts and Legal Opinions.

She has strung together sentences in briefs for judges, layered them in memoranda for colleagues, and drawn them out in opinion letters for clients.

He says he is an attorney for the state Supreme Court who has authored more than 200 judicial opinions and memoranda.

If such technology were used by CanLII, in addition to legal opinions, from its large databases of materials, other revenue - producing products would be developed for each major area of law and practice, such as: (1) a priced catalogue of the standard memoranda, which would be advertised in legal publications; (2) a service that summarizes new decisions, statutory amendments, and significant law journal articles; (3) a newsletter for each major area law and practice; and, (4) specialized databases and projects such as databases of model factums and average sentences and settlements.

It continues as a true support service but it has had to shift from emphasizing its production of complete legal opinions, to the free downloading of highly specialized memoranda of law, factums, and other materials.

And each researcher would create a database of frequently used passages, paragraphs, and footnotes, for his / her specialty, so that the creation of legal opinions and updating standard memoranda could be facilitated by copy - pasting such frequently needed blocks of writing.

Necessary principles of database management would include: (1) database capture of all finished work - product to maximize its re-use so as to maximize cost - efficiency; (2) indexing all finished legal opinions and memoranda of law for quick and accurate access and review for selection, electronically; and, (3) purging the database of all texts superseded by the creation of new legal opinions and memoranda.

In addition to its client - specific legal opinion services, LAO LAW makes available hundreds of general and specific memoranda, draft factums, and other materials that can be downloaded.

Prior to joining Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, he served as a Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., Federal District Court for the District of South Carolina where he prepared briefs and memoranda in preparation for judicial determination, provided research assistance, and drafted opinions and orders on a wide array of legal issues.

Assisting in all aspects of Circuit Court duties, she drafted court orders and opinions for civil, family, CINA, juvenile and criminal cases, and drafted extensive memoranda on post-conviction proceedings, complex criminal case motions, administrative appeals, family exceptions, in banc reviews and complex civil cases.

Prior to joining the Firm, Janelle served as a judicial law clerk for Honorable Judge William Hughes, Hamilton County Superior Court in Indiana where she performed legal research in the preparation of memoranda, opinions, or orders for Judge Hughes concerning various cases before him.

Stewart's memorandum came on the heels of an April 23 Florida attorney general opinion addressing whether the city of Coral Springs, Fla., could establish a Facebook page.

However, the maximization of cost - savings is obtained by having such a support service provide full legal opinions, rather than merely enabling lawyers to download memoranda and other materials from an online catalogue.

[4] We would have provided lawyers with specific memoranda had they asked for them, but they all wanted legal opinions.

A judge might ask a clerk to write a memorandum or even a first draft of a judicial opinion.

Next, Amanda Smith argues for the addition of an opinion - writing exercise as a complement to the traditional office memorandum in first - semester legal writing courses.

This Site and all the information it contains, or may in the future contain, including, but not limited to, articles, memoranda, bulletins, reports, press releases, opinions, text, directories, guides, photographs, illustrations, trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos (collectively, the «Content»), is the property of the Firm and is protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination by U.S. Copyright law, trademark law, international conventions, and other intellectual property laws.

OCGA § 24-8-803 (6): Allows the use of records, in any form, of «acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses» if «(A) made at or near the time of the described acts, events, conditions, opinions or diagnoses; (B) made by, or from information transmitted by, a person with personal knowledge and a business duty to report; (C) kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity; and (D) it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the memorandum, report, record, or data compilation.»

There she researched and drafted bench memoranda, orders and opinions in various practice areas including trademark, trade dress and patent infringement, products liability, and commercial law.

New York lawyers may ethically contract with overseas nonlawyers to perform legal support services such as legal research, document review and drafting of pleadings or legal memoranda, according to a recent ethics opinion issued by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Then we draft briefs, memoranda of law, appeal facta, quantum assessments, opinion or reporting letters — whatever is needed to support your work for your client.

Anna provided judges with legal opinions and research memoranda in all areas of the Court's jurisdiction, including civil, administrative, family and criminal.

The legal memorandum is the most common type of predictive legal analysis; it may include the client letter or legal opinion.

Interns will have the opportunity to draft bench memoranda, judicial orders, and opinions on a variety of substantive matters, including motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, magistrate judge reports, and habeas corpus petitions.

There are a wide variety of courts — state and federal, trial and appellate, specialty — and the work can vary widely as well, but typically, clerks read briefs, attend court proceedings, write bench memoranda analyzing parties» arguments, advise the judge on the disposition of a case, and draft opinions.

The formats for writing a legal memorandum and an opinion letter are discussed and samples included.

(For those keen to latch on to some firmer ground, Eltis includes as an appendix a 2009 memorandum sent to Chief Judges of United States Courts, «Internet Material in Judicial Opinions and Orders.

Start your brief, opinion letter, or research memorandum with an up - front summary, which will typically include the principal questions or main issue, the answers to those questions, and the reasons for those answers.

In my own mediation practice, I billed on an hourly basis for the actual mediation sessions (which, in my opinion, could not and should not be fairly estimated in advance — except to give a likely range), but used a flat fee for drafting the resultant memorandum of understanding.

In that role, he drafted opinions, summary orders, and bench memoranda, handling a number of employment discrimination cases, in addition to education law matters.

The most obvious of these skills is the ability to produce certain genres of legal documents, usually including predictive memoranda and briefs, and also (in some programs) case briefs, letters, file memos, contracts, or judicial opinions.

I write opinions, memoranda and facta, among other things.

By means of CanLII's sponsor, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, CanLII could provide that legal opinion and memoranda of law service, and provide it to a vastly larger market than would have been available to LAO LAW (had the law society, as its then manager, allowed LAO LAW to earn that money for LAO).

Legal memoranda and opinion writing would also be part of the services provided by the career legal research lawyer.

Drafted bench memoranda and opinions, assisted with motions, and mediation of small claims and landlord - tenant matters.

Researched and drafted bench memoranda, orders and letter opinions in both criminal and civil cases.

Drafted bench memoranda and opinions, assisted with motions, and mediation of small claims and landlord tenant matters.

Working with the Investment Brokerage team, responsibilities include financial analysis of commercial real estate deals, selling of investment real estate including shopping centers, office buildings, industrial deals and apartments, writing broker opinions of values, creating sales offering memorandums, interacting with clients on various issues, calling upon buyers to sell properties once licensed, working with lawyers and others regarding closing sales.