Sentences with phrase «n't be a lawyer»

One need not be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to recognize that nowhere does the Charter describe abortion as a right, whereas it definitely guarantees religious freedom.

With INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakoob, not being a lawyer, the legal services department is expected to properly guide the Commission.

Not being a lawyer or accountant, I must leave the technical assessment to those with the training to do so — and I expect Canada's tax community will provide a robust response to these proposals.

the lawyer you meet with for your consultation may not be the lawyer that you see when you hire the firm

It shouldn't be the lawyer's decision whether or not to add all the bells and whistles.

If I hadn't been a lawyer, I think I would have pursued a career as a professor of history.

Had Atticus ignored his conscience, he likely would not be the lawyer hero many perceive him to be today.

It may not be the lawyer's job to confirm all the details, but if disputes break out among unhappy beneficiaries they could attempt to blame the lawyer; and

We face the very real possibility that not merely will legal services be priced beyond the average income but there simply won't be lawyers to provide those services.

How and when to leave behind your fear, quit the law, leave law school and your law firm behind, and pursue your dreams of not being a lawyer.

[6] If you don't love to read and write, you shouldn't be a lawyer.

The grey area of lawyers who weren't in law firms, compliance professionals who may or may not be lawyers and their growing budgets finally became a focus.

The reality is we've gotten to know Bryan a little bit, that he would be making ridiculous videos with his buddies whether or not he was a lawyer and whether or not he could use them for law firm ads.

Copy editor McIntyre concludes that, not being a lawyer, he is «unable to say whether this constitutional context grants residents of the District of Columbia a right to keep an arsenal of firearms under the bed.»

My father never said girls could not be lawyers and always encouraged me from an early age.

In short, «I acted disloyally and I told secrets I was obligated to keep, but I wasn't being a lawyer in the precise moment when I did so» doesn't carry much water as a defence to professional misconduct.

I haven't tried signing up for an ID (not being a lawyer and all), but it has room for browsing of profiles, blogs, discussion forums, polling, classified ads, and group pages (Slaw, anyone?).

Another rhetorical aspect here is the nature of the audience: photographers and media managers might not be lawyers, but they are repeat players in the business of using photographs and thus could be expected to know and care about technical copyright issues on an ongoing basis.

«The attitude was I could not be a lawyer.

There is nothing inherent about being a lawyer or about not being a lawyer that makes a person more or less ethical, or more or less able to understand and follow ethical rules.

Not exact matches

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Ironically, the government doesn't trust that lawyers will report all of their income, so even if your lawyer is «incorporated,» you are still required to send them a Form 1099 if you paid them more than $ 600.

Certainly, candidates receive ordinary income (such as fees for lawyering) that is not subject to those limits.

That's not the kind of behaviour you reward through governments,» says Levy, a lawyer and an executive director of Canadian Cannabis Clinics.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

And the lawyer isn't doing anything with an uncontested divorce.

Salesmanship is practically the only skill set needed in the C - suite that doesn't have its own professional designation, like those held by accountants and lawyers.

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

An official at Brown's office said Rhodes had a lawyer, but that the attorney's contact details were not immediately available.

«This isn't reinventing the wheel,» said Christina Strong, a New Jersey lawyer who co-wrote a set of standards that most states largely adopted for the organ transplant industry.

The anonymous client had told Cohen not to disclose his name, his lawyers said, partly because it would likely «be embarrassing or detrimental» to him.

The next time I needed to negotiate, I was able to talk to a lawyer, talk to a banker who is a friend of mine, and say OK, I don't want to accept this as it is.

«When Mt. Gox didn't have any of the coins, he was getting new deposits from other customers to pay off other people — kind of like a Bernie Madoff,» says Kelman, the lawyer.

Theranos» lawyer acknowledged to the WSJ that proprietary technology was not used in all of the company's tests, but in a later statement called doubts about Edison's accuracy «baseless» and «erroneous,» claiming that the quoted sources «were never in a position to understand Theranos» technology.»

The difference is that the House bill places restrictions on which businesses can qualify for that rate — and lawyers and accountants wouldn't be able to qualify.

While the beer was exceptionally popular with the drinking public, Beyoncé's lawyers weren't stoked about the idea.

• 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.»

However, he swiftly dropped that idea, writing: «After discussing with lawyers it has been confirmed this option is not practical (mostly due to compliance issues).»

If they had a lawyer working for them, at least the lawyer could have said (before they signed the mortgage) maybe this isn't right.»

What makes an ADR unique is that the lawyers and clients sign off on a participation agreement in which the lawyers agree that if a settlement is not reached, they will back out of the process and not push for litigation.

I did not read or recall this email exchange before it was shown to me by my lawyers when reviewing documents for submission to the committees.

Many wouldn't think a conversation with a lawyer would be fun, but given how quickly video games are changing thanks to digital distribution and interaction over the Internet, Gagne is covering some particularly poignant areas.

Ed Zimmerman, a venture capital lawyer at Lowenstein Sandler, isn't trying to set the world on fire.

And it's equally worth noting that that obligation can not be described without reference to that system, and to the role we want lawyers to play within it.

«In fact, some Canadian retailers were told they couldn't even talk to Club Coffee,» Robert Russell, the smaller company's lawyer, told The Globe and Mail.

«I spent all this time hiring lawyers and half of them worked out and half didn't,» she says, «I thought, «there must be a better way to think about this.

My expertise is an economist, not as a lawyer, so I can not speak to the strength of the Coalition's case.

Yale legal scholar Robert W Gordon wrote a nice piece a few years back called «Why Lawyers Can't Just Be Hired Guns.»

«The president wasn't fully briefed by his lawyers on the implications» of not invoking executive privilege, Bannon told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

A lawyer representing Schrems, James Doherty, told the court that a referral to the European Court was «unnecessary or at least premature» as the Irish regulator had not fully investigated the complaint and had not used all tools in its power to restrict data flows where consumers» rights were threatened.