Sentences with phrase «of the small town lawyer»

The son of a small town lawyer and a college professor, Steven watched his parents devote their careers to improving the community they called home.

Not exact matches

But Deer's investigation - nominated in February 2011 for two British Press Awards - discovered that, while Wakefield held himself out to be a dispassionate scientist, two years before the Lancet paper was published - and before any of the 12 children were even referred to the hospital - he had been hired to attack MMR by a lawyer, Richard Barr: a jobbing solicitor in the small eastern English town of King's Lynn, who hoped to raise a speculative class action lawsuit against drug companies which manufactured the triple shot.

But it's the cocky swagger of McConaughey — playing a small town lawyer with the ego of a big city prosecutor — that provides the counterweight to the idea that the confessed murderer should be let go.

A case could be made for Gregory Peck in «To Kill a Mockingbird» or Marlon Brando in «The Godfather,» but they had other pressing obligations — one as a small - town lawyer taking a stand against racism and the other a mob kingpin whose idea of family goes beyond mere blood relatives.

He wants all the lawyers and union reps, not to mention the people telling him to keep mum lest their small town's main soure of employment has to shut down, to lay off his jock.

Hank, unable to leave his unappreciative father in the inept care of the small town defense lawyer C.P. Kennedy (Dax Shepard), stays on to defend Judge Palmer.

James Stewart stars as a small town lawyer acting as defense attorney for Ben Gazzara, accused of killing the man who supposedly raped his wife, Lee Remick.

Paring Maile Meloy's 11 - story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It down to a trilogy, Certain Women tells the sequential tales of Dern's Laura, a small - town lawyer called in to help defuse a hostage situation involving one of her clients (Harris); Michelle Williams's Gina, who's building a house with husband Ryan (James Le Gros); and Lily Gladstone's Jamie, a young rancher in unrequited love with night - school teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart).

Despite his protestations of innocence, his small town has mostly shunned him, aside from the we - love - you - anyway support of his parents (James Remar and Kathleen Quinlan), brother Terry (Joe Anderson), and best friend and lawyer Lee (Max Minghella).

In what is arguably the best role of his career, Stewart plays a small - town Michigan lawyer defending an army lieutenant (Gazzara) accused of murdering a tavern owner, who he believes raped his wife (Remick).

I challenge students to relate it to the character of Atticus Finch, the small - town lawyer living in fictional Maycomb, Alabama.

One of the three lawyers representing 36 rural school districts and several individuals that sued the state in 1993, Mr. Morrison and his colleagues have spent the past 16 months arguing in this small - town...

There isn't a requirement to have 100 engineers in each of the worst inner - city neighborhoods, or 50 lawyers in each small Appalachian town.

Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small - town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship.

He's gay in a small town, house - on - the - brink - of - foreclosure poor and the illegitimate son of a sociopathic lawyer hellbent on his demise.

But so many of them were leaning on canes or sitting in wheelchairs that you might have thought Henry Bonwiller had been a small - town slip - and - fall lawyer and not a man who, if certain chips of fate had fallen certain other ways, might once have been president of the United States.

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a small - town lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape, in a scene from the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the novel by Harper Lee.

Over the last 60 years my small rural town of 4000 people (largest in the county) has seen the trees removed, half the lawns have been converted to parking lots for the homes that have been converted to doctors and lawyers offices, traffic has increased 10 fold, etc..

I met with a lawyer a couple of weeks ago in a small town about two hours outside of the Twin Cities.

But rural lawyers love to tell you how nice it is to raise children in a small town, where they can ride their bikes to every friend's house and you know the parents of all of their playmates.

Michelle and I recently had the opportunity to speak with a lawyer in a small town in my home state of Illinois.

Norm Pattis of the Crime & Federalism blog is a small - town lawyer, but he was visiting Georgetown this week for a seminar on 1983 litigation.

Elsewhere, The AP reported that lawyers conducted two small peaceful protests in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta town of Toukh, north of Cairo.

And also they will be submitting a tool kit that will contain things like retainer letters and checklists and those kinds of things that are very practical that lawyers from small - town Manitoba all the way up to a lawyer in the largest national firm in the country can go through and know what to do and how to handle certain conflict situations.

Especially if you don't already know a ton of lawyers, do not live in a small town or a suburb.

Small - town practices generally require lawyers to offer a broad range of services, including criminal defense, family law, wills and estates, and business transactions.

Swan says he likes the small town life and wants a taste of what it means to be a rural lawyer, although he's keeping his options open.

Unless you're a small - town general practitioner, gone are the days when everyone knows you and people come to you for legal help because you're one of the only lawyers in town.

Attorneys at The Donahey Law Firm provide the attentive service you expect from a small - town lawyer, but our Columbus personal injury lawyers have the success and resources of a big - city law firm.

Already, as Simon has pointed out, the type of legal work most commonly found in small towns simply doesn't pay enough to justify law society fees, professional insurance and practice overhead (or at least, to supply the type of income most lawyers still consider commensurate with their professional standing).

I'm as much a fan of the inspirational, against - all - odds tales of victory by small town lawyers as anyone.

Donna is a great example of how the power of web 2.0 combined with the Interjurisdictional Practice Protocol can lever a lawyer into a prominent and successful national practice — even from small town Manitoba!

There is no question that many small Canadian cities and towns are doing without a sufficient number of lawyers.

With a vision to usher in an era of a better informed and well connected legal community in the country, we have put up this portal, which we hope and believe will interest a small town district court practitioner to corporate and law firm lawyer equally.

Their selections start with Gregory Peck's classic portrayal of small - town lawyer Atticus Finch and end with the 1947 film that put Santa Claus on trial, «Miracle on 34th Street».

«She's going to be working with a team of lawyers from across Ontario on some of our big national class actions, a much broader range of legal experiences than you would ordinarily get if you're working in an office in Elliot Lake where you're typically doing small - town solicitor work,» he says.

The end result is that over the next 5 to 15 years rural areas and small towns are looking at losing a significant proportion of their lawyers through retirement.

Attend your state or local bar conference and get to know lawyers from small towns or on the other side of the city.

It seems that when little, common place things start to get a bit more difficult — things like: getting a divorce, managing a business, resolving civil disputes, or defending criminal cases — small towns take a hit; a lack of lawyers isn't the death - blow, but it is a symptom of a potentially terminal disease.

In To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee gave us a sweet, idillic view of small town life in the 1930's, a sobering take on Jim Crow, and an introduction to the prototypical rural lawyer.

A Rural Lawyer tip of the hat to small town lawyer Sharon Edenfield for bringing this idea to fruition.

Then there are the governmental costs; a lack of local lawyers means that small town governments and public entities (school boards, county commissioners, etc.) must pay outside lawyers to travel into town to handle local affairs.

The small towns and rural areas of Oregon have a problem and are looking for a few lawyers willing to put up with flexible hours, a good work / life balance, and opportunities to build a satisfying career in order to solve it.

As a biglaw attorney and a small fry in a highly stratified town like Washington D.C., lawyers like Mark Levy and I travel in different circles, attend different conferences and represent different types of clients.

From Lemons to Lemonade (which I didn't purchase, by the way — this was a free review copy) starts by talking in detail about the «untapped legal job market,» which includes things such as JD - preferred jobs, «hidden» jobs that aren't necessarily advertised but can be uncovered with some due diligence, and less commonly considered options, including small town lawyering and teaching outside of law schools.

Lawyers in small cities and towns may still have old - fashioned general practices, but most urban lawyers tend to be highly specialized due to the overwhelming complexity of the lawLawyers in small cities and towns may still have old - fashioned general practices, but most urban lawyers tend to be highly specialized due to the overwhelming complexity of the lawlawyers tend to be highly specialized due to the overwhelming complexity of the law today.

At the even lower ends, with students in practices in small towns, or at lesser firms in slightly larger markets, lawyers earn sometimes as little as $ 35,000 USD in their first year as an associate, and for some of these lawyers advancement may never come.

Jan Goddard has, like many others in the profession, observed the phenomenon of small - town lawyers struggling to find someone to take over their practices as they approach retirement age.

Get out of Toronto and find out that yes, people actually need lawyers in small towns.

The outcome is likely tied to the fact that the case was taking place in the federal district for Eastern Texas — a cluster of small towns that turned patent trolling into a major cottage industry, welcoming lawyers from across the country to sue app developers and everyone else.