Sentences with phrase «of talented lawyers work»

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The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Either way, Scott has a talented cast who has the benefit of Cormac McCarthy's tense script to work from, one that centers on a lawyer (Fassbender) who gets in over his head in a drug trafficking attempt gone awry.

Another part of challenge was realizing the need to build a talented team of lawyers, analysts, PR professionals, etc., to do the work analyzing how TARP funds were being spent, and write reports that would grab attention, and change the terms of the political debate.

As part of the campaign, I have worked with talented and passionate lawyers in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

I know plenty of talented lawyers who would much rather bring in their own work and do it themselves than delegate the caseload to their team.

LOD challenged the traditional models of legal service delivery and brought talented freelance lawyers to work directly with clients.

Law firms look to recruit talented students with an all - round, comprehensive portfolio of skills, but above all they want people who can (a) think commercially and from the client's perspective; (b) communicate effectively and relate to clients; (c) have an interest and understanding of the business of a law firm, their clients, the environment in which law firms and their clients operate and the role of a commercial lawyer; and (d) work effectively whatever the business conditions.

«It's an opportunity to work with a group of extraordinarily talented appellate lawyers,» Garre said.

Working with law school placement offices is the easiest way to try to tap into this talented pool of future lawyers.

One of the big questions I keep grappling with is why do smart, talented, hard - working, ethical people — lawyers — make such a mess out of management?

The overwhelming majority of partners at commercial law firms believe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to cut # 350m from its annual legal aid budget will lead to a «brain drain» of talented lawyers from publicly - funded work.

And those young lawyers can still gain valuable career - launching experience by working for an LPO - many of these bright and talented people choose to work for Integreon.

Leigh McMullan Abramson writes about a report published by the UC Hastings College of Law that highlights new models such as secondments, law firm «accordion» (surge capacity) companies, and other innovative firms and companies that not only let talented lawyers do sophisticated work for competitive pay on different terms, but also add real value to the companies and firms that use them.

In the interest of further collaboration, Aird & Berlis will be seconding Aaron Baer, one of its talented M&A lawyers, to work side - by - side with Diligen's developers and designers on developing new use cases, shaping the product roadmap and training Diligen's system to identify additional legal concepts.

Withers chairman Ivan Sacks commented: «I am delighted that the skills and hard work of these lawyers have been rewarded with these appointments.These talented new partners will help us to continue enhancing the services we offer our clients and growing our business around the world.»

«We are excited about what this means for our clients, as well as our younger attorneys, to be able to work with such an exceptionally talented group of experienced lawyers.»

According to a 2015 Robert Half International survey of 350 US and Canadian lawyers, 69 % say that the opportunity to work remotely / work flexible hours is the most important perk law firms offer when it comes to successfully recruiting and retaining talented legal professionals.

The LALY's are a celebration of exceptionally talented lawyers who dedicate their working lives to the most vulnerable in society, fighting for access to justice.

«I'm very happy to be back working alongside such a talented, effective and compassionate team of labor and employment lawyers.

(www.alpma.com.au) The conference explored many of the same management issues facing law firms in the United States: how to retain talented lawyers, especially women; the resistance to — and growing importance of - professional management for law firms; and different generational attitudes toward life and work.

However, the reality is that having worked closely with hundreds of our talented lawyers (and business services people) over the years, I can say that all are much more professional and committed than those flashy fictional TV lawyers.

I look forward to working alongside this talented group of lawyers.»

It's been tremendously fulfilling in terms of working with clients, working on interesting cases, and working with talented younger lawyers, which I derive enormous satisfaction from.

Our network of talented freelance lawyers can work on a vast array of projects including, but certainly not limited to the following:

In addition, with the rise of flexible working, law firms with talented rainmakers are at the risk of losing good lawyers because of an unwieldy partnership structure and sometimes the inability of the decision - making process to allow an individual to innovate internally.

Apart from her remarkable achievements to improve the operation of Home Depot's legal department in the form of hiring a team of talented lawyers, introducing fixed fee arrangements for work with outside counsel and creating templates, checklists and training decks for a number of business lines, Qadeer has also become a valued and vocal part of the senior leadership team on issues beyond legal.