Sentences with phrase «older lawyers out»

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

When you change lawyers after an offer is on the table, your new lawyer will pay out the old lawyer out of their portion of the fee.

Not exact matches

Bosses on Wednesday spelled out their stance after lawyers lodged a defence to the 76 - year - old Christian singer's damages claims at the High Court in London.

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.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

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.

Dressed in his blue Knicks practice shorts, he stepped out of the car and slowly walked to the building, where six people were waiting for him: Laura Tate, a 28 - year - old aspiring model from Los Angeles who had conducted a 15 - month affair with Johnson; Tate's father, Dennis; her lawyer; two lab workers; and a three - month - old girl named Taylor Tate Johnson, who was resting quietly in Laura's lap, oblivious to the awkward situation around her.

I told Dorothy that she has to help out her 19 - year - old sister, Devina, who is an aspiring golfer; 14 - year - old sister Dodisa, who wants to be a lawyer; and 11 - year - old brother, Arsenio Jr..

My wife is still breast feeding our 2 1/2 year old son mainly out of guilt for working outside the home as she is a corporate lawyer.

Of course, the press has also taken notice of upstart Ali Najmi, a lawyer and former Mark Weprin staffer who appears to have had a falling out with his old boss.

Gabay — a 43 - year - old Harvard - educated lawyer who'd worked for Cuomo's Empire State Development Corporation — was walking along Bedford Avenue after the annual West Indian community celebration in the early morning hours of Sept. 7 when the firefight broke out between the warring Folk Nation and 8 - Trey Crips gangs, prosecutors say.

He has said he will move 16 - and 17 - year - olds out of adult jails but has faced an «operational challenge,» according to his lawyer, in implementing the change.

The human rights lawyer and mom to eight - month - old twins Ella and Alexander stepped out in New York City on Tuesday wearing a trench coat with a twist.

When his girlfriend (Adams) dumps him because he's not committed to having a family, an out - of - luck would - be lawyer (Sandler) adopts a 6 - year - old boy in the hopes of winning her back.

Inevitably, Nichols can't entirely avoid the public face of this injustice, and later scenes with lawyers and the media feel especially perfunctory (Michael Shannon, helping out his old Take Shelter director, has a cameo as a Life photographer).

Operating out of his own beachside «surgery» — with his very own gonzo lawyer, Fear and Loathing's Benicio del Toro — Doc's odyssey begins when his old squeeze enlists him to find a missing real estate developer suspected of being kidnapped.

It abandoned a 4 - year - old practice of trying to screen out foreign students who are in the United States on tourist visas, according to a lawyer representing the district.

Again and again, he has reached out to Maggie Rose, the blue - haired (dyed blue, not little - old - lady blue), reclusive true - crime writer / lawyer, to take on his case.

In short, while «effectively let go from the old company and re-hired as new employees at the acquiring company» might be what it appears from the outside, legally it might be something different, and everybody is waiting till the lawyers figure out the details, and does not want to allow rollovers etc until the dust has settled.

If you have old debts it's good to get professional advice, talk to a Licensed Insolvency Trustee, talk to a lawyer and figure out whether your debts apply or not.

The wind industry is alive to that FACT — and — wherever they've had to concede it — they quietly buy out their victims» properties, bulldoze them (see our post here) and make damn sure they stitch up the unfortunate (homeless) family with bullet proof gag clauses (see our posts here and here)-- that their lawyers enforce with the zeal and vigour of the Old GDR's Stasi (see our post here).

Singleton Urquhart lawyer Roger Holland, who has been involved with the event since it began and is a member of the Benevolent Society's board, says this year's line - up of bands included old favourites but also three newer bands, one a newly - formed group out of Surrey.

Finally, as to the rationale of «passing clients on to younger partners,» MacEwen points out that clients may want to keep older lawyers with whom they've developed a relationship — and they ought to have a say in the matter.

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.»

At the same time, I've also had terrible experiences with older lawyers whom I've supervised (particularly those retired from a government background) who ignored deadlines and turned out terribly researched work product.

What should be an optimum circumstance for a good, old - fashioned reference conversation is instead a hurried, frantic affair, grabbing at search terms and situations as they fly through the lawyer's brain, out his mouth and into the ether.

Because comments to older posts sometimes get overlooked, allow me to point out this comment posted today by lawyer and consultant Craig D. Ball.

It was the judges and lawyers who had to throw out three decades of established case law and start over again; it seemed to me that my clients had very little knowledge of the old Family Relations Act and therefore had nothing to relearn when separating.

Older lawyers just want their firm to hold together long enough for them to squeeze the most out of it and step away.

Recently a further challenge has hit the traditional business model — the old model in which partners were expected to build increasingly large teams of trained lawyers working below partner level and to leverage work down to them, at high charge out rates.

But he explained the problem that most of these burned out older lawyers have.

1849: Francis N. Bangs, a 21 - year - old lawyer, hangs out a shingle on lower Broadway in Manhattan and opens his one - man firm, which today is known as Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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A 10 or 15 lawyer retail firm covering a handful of personal service practice areas reconstituting as part of a 300 + lawyer national firm would have meant throwing out the old owner's manual and starting from scratch, moving from what was essentially a small - business management system to a much more corporate model.

This is done by dragging things out when in the old days the lawyers would have told their respective clients not to sweat the small stuff (and that allowed the lawyers to settle earlier and more often and move on to their other files).

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.

In those days of old, big firms had the secretaries who could crank out multiple drafts of briefs, lawyers who could «cite check» and bodies who could search out answers to interrogatories while drafting similar requests so numerous that they could just overwhelm the smaller adversary.

(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.

I think it would be more prudent for older lawyers to have a brain scan before you rush out and by a tablet.

This year, 102 lawyers were given their silks, joining the ranks of the Queen's Counsel — a centuries - old tradition that honours outstanding legal careers and is still carried out by many provinces, as well as the federal government.

She assumed I chose the name as a «brilliant analogy of lawyers to Plato's prisoners trapped by their old disorganized ways and brought out to the beautiful light of technology.»

The old ways of marketing for attorneys, lawyers and law firms are slowly dying out and now is the time to consider new ways of attracting your core clientele on the web.

The risks and potential liabilities to both the old and new firm (and the lawyer making the move) can be huge; but as the author points out, there is little guidance out there as to how the process should happen.

As one of the oldest, largest, and distinguished law firms in Indiana, our seasoned trial lawyers have been trusted time and time again by other law firms in the area and out of state to take on cases!

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.

Precedent sits down with the 35 - year - old to find out what on earth a marijuana lawyer does all day....

To avoid such situations, the following steps should be considered whenever files are being transferred between lawyers / firms: a) it is a good practice for a lawyer who is transferring out the file to advise the new lawyer, in writing, of any time sensitive issues including upcoming limitation period deadlines; b) it is a good practice for the lawyer receiving the file (the new lawyer) to request this same information in writing to the extent that it is not immediately provided; c) the new lawyer should consider making it clear in writing to the client and the original lawyer that he or she will not be accepting the retainer until he or she receives the file from the old lawyer; and d) the new lawyer should promptly review the file upon receiving it.

My reading of thise is that a new lawyer must refer out cases if he or she can find an older attorney who will take the case or that new lawyer must be an associate under an experience attorney.

At MyShingle, Carolyn Elefant pointed out that «the problem of a few older lawyers can spoil things for those older lawyers who remain sharp later into their careers» and recommended:

I think that 2017, technology and lawyers, I think — I just keep coming back to good old Comment 8, that Competence Rule and the Model Rules, and there's an ethics requirements that we understand and keep abreast with technology, and so rather than try to predict everything that's going to be out there and then say, I am not sure exactly what to do about it, I think the resolutions approach says, hey, I could pick a couple of things where I actually do keep abreast of technology and improve my competence.