Sentences with phrase «older lawyers like»

Or perhaps it's that some of the older lawyers liked the title of practice lead, but were willing to relinquish the duties and so gave over to the younger crowd.

Not exact matches

Thus the old saying that «she may have married the lawyer, but all the kids all look like the milkman», right?

Many country lawyers worked in small freestanding offices like the Law Office at Old Sturbridge Village, built for John McClellan of Woodstock, Connecticut.

Lawyers and court reporters who spend their working lives at the Old Bailey agreed they had never seen anything like it, this multimillion - pound Rolls - Royce engine purring through the proceedings.

He rejected a request by a defense lawyer for Gonzalez that his client receive two years in prison, like the sentence bestowed earlier this month on 81 - year - old Joseph Bruno, the Republican leader of the state Senate for 13 years who was convicted of two fraud charges.

Some patients, like Ron Krist, a 77 - year - old Houston lawyer, have returned to their favorite activities even sooner.

If something sounds wrong — like a lawyer who says he's 35 years old but has 25 years of professional experience — start asking questions.

Rich, Old, Successful men: Doctors, Lawyers, Busy professionals, Financiers, Benefactors and the like.

Millionaire Match is the largest and oldest millionaire dating website in the world with over 3.1 million millionaires singles just like you, ranging from doctors, lawyers, executives, athletes, models, actors and many other attractive singles.

Spindel's fee starts at $ 16,500, and her clients include celebrities, lawyers and Wall Street types — people like 44 - year - old businessman Neil Kessler, who paid Spindel to set him up on 12 blind dates over a 12 - month period.

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.

The L.A. Riot Spectacular looks like it was filmed on a dusty old video camera looted in the actual Rodney King riots (for authenticity), yet it features, in addition to Snoop Dogg: Charles S. Dutton as Mayor Tom Bradley; Emilio Estevez and Christopher McDonald as two of the police officers who beat King; He's My Girl star T.K. Carter as Rodney King; the aforementioned Cox as Gates; Jerry Maguire tot Jonathan Lipniki as hate - mongering youngster Tom Saltine Jr.; Silence Of The Lambs» Ted Levine as Tom Saltine Sr.; Charles Durning — who in a more blessed time scored back - to - back Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas — as King's Jewish lawyer; George Hamilton as the «King Of Beverly Hills»; veteran character actor William Forsythe as the man who videotaped the beating; and porn star Ron Jeremy as a Ron Jeremy - like porn star.

The lead plaintiff is a 7 - year - old second - grader who can't spell words like «need» and «help,» lawyers said.

At Holyoke there were bond analysts and lawyers and day traders and city managers and school administrators, all of them caught with their hands in the till and nothing at all like me, an eighteen - year - old accidental arsonist and...

Yes there is even role - playing in Arma 3 this is listed as life mods because there is so many of them from Altis life to Arma 3 life you basically live like you would in real life but with guns and the ability to drive a car when you are 12 years old there are cops, emergency services and lawyers its loads of fun just don't get caught doing things against the law some servers have high jail times!

First, if these older lawyers had the kinds of relationship with clients that is claimed, why don't more of them take their portfolios and walk, like the attorney Victor Morris described in the Times story.

Netherlands, it was for a saturday job... And I'm 20 years old and can't really spend the money on a lawyer, but I feel like I'm being fucked over really hard.

Calling him «Eric Holden,» Spence says that when a lawyer works long enough for big corporations, as Holder did as partner at a corporate law firm, «the human psyche begins to dry up and one day will fall out on the carpet of the boardroom floor... like a dried up old prune.»

(Actually, this publication is now called «VerdictSearch ``, but old - timers like me, and most New York personal injury lawyers, still call it the «Jury Verdict Reporter ``.)

That old lawyer I met within the brewery was right: Understanding how to think like lawyers made us less able to the type of emotive thinking essential to make creative choices, manage and encourage people, and respond rapidly to alter.

It's an old tale that lawyers just start feeling like they're spinning their wheels and stuck at some point.

Why do lawyers rationalize like the old heart surgeon, «well it was good enough to prove a case without courtroom technology in the «60s and the need for proof hasn't changed»?

Most importantly, clients do not care about any of the things that lawyers seem to care about like grades, class ranking, law review, or even how old you are.

Old - school advice like working hard or getting involved in bar associations, while useful, may not be enough to help new lawyers succeed in dealing with the challenges they now face.

We are advising anyone (and I think lawyers and judges would like to know about this), to not upgrade to ADE version 4.0, and if you have to uninstall it and use the older versions of ADE 3.0 or earlier (if they even work at all).

Younger lawyers are, predictably, more comfortable with the media than their older colleagues, according to a recent survey for LexisNexis, the legal database company: 86 percent of lawyers ages 25 to 35 are members of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, as opposed to 66 percent of those over 46.

What would you say to a young lawyer or law student who wanted to be an appellate lawyer, or an older lawyer who would like to take on appellate cases?

The American Association for Justice, which sounds like a group of superheros but is the renamed Association of Trial Lawyers of America, filed an ethics complaint against Pearson yesterday with the D.C. Bar and has established a defense fund for Custom Cleaners in the two - year - old suit.

These new lawyers don't understand why the older lawyers do the things they do, and they vow to never become like their older predecessors.

Like as you were talking, a couple things that came to mind was, when somebody goes to an event and they see that the lawyer named Ruth is coming to speak, they tend to assume that I'm an old, stuffy Jewish woman.

But, like so many things, those younger lawyers can eventually evolve into the same older lawyers they once judged.

In fact, since they won't be suspicious of your motives like younger lawyers can be, older lawyers will be more receptive to your overtures in the first place.

For me, lawyer Erik J. Heels is like that old Merrill Lynch advertising slogan: When he talks about the Internet, I listen.

For Make a Will Month, we wanted to know what people think of estate planning; this infographic helped us debunk some estate planning myths like «you need a lawyer to make your will» when in reality anyone over 18 years old can do it.

You've got your lawyers - turned - pseudo-arbitrators like Judge Judy and good old Judge Wapner.

Remember the good old days when blogging opened the door to a writing career for lawyers like Melissa Lafsky of Opinonistas, or Jeremy Blachman, the Harvard law student who created the Anonymous Lawyer blog, which lead to a book deal?

When you're on your fourth midnight drafting session in a row, there's nothing like hearing a boomer partner was nostalgic about the old days and how easy today's lawyers have it in comparison.

At the time, forcing older lawyers out the door seemed like a slap in the face after their long tenure at the firm.

Avvo is doing as good a job (or better) than older lawyer - rating services like Martindale - Hubbell, which makes lawyers pay to get a rating, and keeps its rating algorithm is a big secret.

If the old model was, a lawyer comes out of law school and joins a firm, does a lot of grunt work in the first few years to not only sort of learn how to research, but learn how to think like a lawyer and learn how to really work for that firm and for a client; that model may be shifting more and more to lawyers going straight to in - house counsel, where they don't get the first couple of years of law firm training.

Like the Chinese clients referred to by your students, the older generation are impressed by a lawyer who uses legalese while the younger generation is more concerned with what the lawyer can do for them.

The old lawyer I met in the brewery was right: Learning to think like lawyers made us less capable of the kind of emotive thinking necessary to make creative choices, manage and inspire people, and respond quickly to change.

(My children often point out to me when I identify issues like this I express them in a manner as confusing as the message in a fortune cookie, which I could accept until the characterization was recently refined to say this would only be the case if the fortune cookies were baked large enough to house the pompous verbosity of an old lawyer.

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No one likes to think about getting older, and lawyers may tend to put off thinking about the day they have to retire from the profession they love and the firms they have spent a lifetime building.

It's not as forgiving, I don't think in those 14 state Bars, as it was in 2006 when they were like, «Oh, we're the old time lawyers, we're not going to discipline them or anything else like that, we're just going to let them do whatever they want.»

One of the puzzling things I have noticed about new lawyers is that they tend to come out of law school thinking like 50 year old lawyers — and not like the digital natives they are.

«My goal is to make it affordable for the law students, for the college moot court teams, the high school competition teams, the lawyers, even a 12 - year - old who thinks «hey, I want to be a lawyer one day; what is it like in the courtroom?

Lawyers like Mr. Thompson are part of a fundamental shift in the 50 - year - old business model for big firms.

If lawyers could just take a quick look at some of the relevant stuff that key players hold; you know, sit down with correspondence and documents like we did in the old days — browse, as it were — then lawyers could start asking the right questions from the start.