Sentences with phrase «of life of lawyers»

Jamie Jurczak, a partner with Taylor McCaffrey LLP in Winnipeg, says that's an everyday part of the life of a lawyer, whatever kind of clients you have.

The quality of living of all lawyers, women and men, are improved by recognizing the need for a holistic approach to career satisfaction, which necessitates outside interests.

A number of television shows, movies and books have revolved around relationships occurring in fictional law firms, highlighting both public fascination with and misperception of the lives of lawyers in high - powered settings.

Not exact matches

«I realized I didn't want to kill trees for a living,» Powell says of his choice not to become a lawyer.

Historically, there's always been a problem of lawyers thinking they know everything, which is in fact a problem in life with lawyers... There's been a culture of activism of making it clear to lawyers that the support is necessary and appreciated, but they weren't necessarily the leaders of the movement.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

With a lawyer's assistance place the policy within an irrevocable life - insurance trust so that its proceeds will not be taxed as part of your estate.

Redstone's lawyers say Herzer wanted to obstruct any romantic interests because she «recognized that the object of Mr. Redstone's affections held the key to his pocketbook, and thus she became focused on keeping other women out of his life.»

The reforms, in essence, would create an independent panel composed mostly of laypersons to oversee the profession, and an independent office for the investigation of complaints against lawyers (a real life, «highly successful» example is the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner in New South Wales, Australia).

But family lawyers and women's rights workers believe the legislation represents a turning point in the freedoms of Russian women, a dark signal from the very top of government that their lives are losing value.

I lived through the dot - com boom, bust and revival, first as a corporate lawyer at a firm that was pumping out IPOs in the late 1990s, then at a series of consumer Web companies including Excite, MySpace and eHarmony.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a lawyer must personally pay the legal costs of a hospital and a doctor involved in a legal battle with her, over her attempt to remove a client from life support, saying she was «intent on achieving her own personal objective.»

That's why «Fire and Fury,» by journalist Michael Wolff, which purported to be a fly - on - the - wall, inside view of life in the Trump White House, shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com last week after Donald Trump's lawyers tried to suppress it.

Mr. Weekes, the chief assistant public defender, said lawyers were still trying to piece together the details of Mr. Cruz's life.

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would not survive a court challenge.

The feared tenant lawyer on coming from a family of «slaughterers,» living like Napoleon and attacking developers for sport

From an investment point of view, however, I think it makes more sense to pay lawyers to work at that stage of the company's life (where it appears there is a company) than at the seed stage.

Jeanne would thus have an ongoing source of cash to live on in her last years, and the lawyer would get an apartment cheaply, with no money down, in return for accepting the uncertainty as to when he would take possession.

His lawyer says Cruz would plead guilty if guaranteed a sentence of life without parole, but prosecutors seek the death penalty.

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

Her husband, Daniel Wani, is a U.S. citizen who uses a wheelchair and «totally depends on her for all details of his life,» her lawyer said.

His conclusion: Evil is multicausal, brings together individual and social factors (Robespierre probably would have lived out his life as a harmless provincial lawyer if not for the French Revolution), and is particular (every act of evil has its own story).

Lim's lawyers asked for a life sentence «so that he can witness for himself the reality of the nation of the Sun as it grows in power and prosperity,» reports Reuters.

Wani, uses a wheelchair and «totally depends on her for all details of his life,» Ibrahim's lawyer said.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Before the divorce dynamic takes over and establishes a life of its own, a lawyer can create a needed pause just by playing devil's advocate — a role to which lawyers should be accustomed.

One Sunday, stopping on his way to a downtown church, the lawyer discovers Bartleby is living in the office — and «Presentiments of strange discoveries hovered round me.

Certainly William Blackstone and Christopher Columbus Langdell, often cited as Holmes» targets, were as alert to the value of experience as Holmes was; it ought to be clear to any practicing lawyer that the life of the law requires both experience and logic.

Putting Jesus to the test, a professionally accomplished lawyer asked for a definition of a «neighbor,» the love of whom Jesus had set forth as the second great ideal for human life.

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 Urofsky never fully explicates the apparent tension between Brandeis the lawyer and Brandeis the judge, one of the foremost architects of «living constitutionalism.»

In A Married Man (1979), the barrister (trial lawyer) John Strickland, after reading Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, feels that his life is becalmed and embarks upon both a love affair and a political career.

Through masterful storytelling, Goff — a successful lawyer, professor, Honorary Consul for the Republic of Uganda to the United States, and founder of Restore International — gives readers a glimpse into the life that has made him something of a legend among those who know him.

His daughter, Scout, now in her mid-twenties and visiting home from her erstwhile and vaguely described life in New York, finds Atticus at a meeting where a professional scaremonger warns the sympathetic audience that their concern is «not the question of whether snot - nosed niggers will go to school with your children or ride in the front of the bus... it's whether... we will be slaves of the Communists» and «nigger lawyers.»

Christian lawyers have been asked by the parents of a baby boy at the centre of a life - support treatment battle to mount another appeal application after losing their latest legal battle.

Having read through the Directory with the eye of a canon lawyer, I am not sure that the document lives up to that acclamation.

«Our clients need time, space, and privacy while they receive services and begin the difficult process of rebuilding their lives,» said Caleb Mason, a lawyer for the siblings.

Son of an itinerant evangelist, spotless in his family life, loyal to his friends, a superb orator, a lawyer and politician, Ingersoll rejoiced in pointing out what he believed to be the evils sanctioned in the Old Testament and was an enthusiastic Darwinian.

I love creating new recipes and putting them on this website for you to enjoy, but my life as a family lawyer has taken priority over the past couple of years and in particular throughout this year.

For months Thompson lived in dread of a telephone call from his lawyers telling him that a warrant had been issued for his arrest on three charges of first - degree murder.

I have been watching Law & Order most of my life and I binged Suits over the summer, but I not going to claim I know more than the lawyers do.

(Smith had her lawyer send a letter to the IASA declining Life Membership until the organization determined who within its ranks had told reporters that she had not been available for out - of - competition drug tests before the Olympics.)

Tamir's father, Karl, a lawyer who has been Orthodox all his life, returns home from shul and catches up on the 38 messages his answering service has handled in the past 24 hours, including one from a fortune - teller accused of fraud for failing to lift a curse on a customer.

Lackey, a lawyer by profession, associates the times and places of his life with disasters.

Arsenal has many fans from different walks of life, lawyers, accountants, even financiers and the average joe with lots of brilliant ideas, our spend on club merchandise, on tickets and so on does not have to go through the pockets of some greedy individuals who only pay us back with misery over and over again, let's borrow a leaf from Real Madrid and Barcelona by making use of new technologies to come together and take charge of our club even if remotely, this mini revolution begins now, it begins with YOU!

The ONLY reason we have this sh*t together is that our former neighbor was a lawyer and we were mommy friends when she lived here and she totally gave us a template, guided us through the process, then we had witness signing over dinner and a glass of wine!

I put my career as a lawyer on the side and devoted my professional life to finding a solution that helps moms nurse more comfortably and conveniently while enjoying the freedom to take care of all those other things moms need to do.

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For example we will only work with agencies / lawyers that offer lifetime counseling to birth parents because we realize the consequences of adoption will be life long for them.