Sentences with phrase «on in her legal career»

Having been influenced early on in her legal career by the mediation training she received over 30 years ago, Marla gave up court as an option well before the advent of Collaboration as a formal process.

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LOS ANGELES — Ashley Judd sued Harvey Weinstein on Monday, opening a new legal battlefront for the disgraced film producer by claiming that her career withered because he spread lies about her in Hollywood after she rejected his sexual requests.

During his legal career, Mr. Richels also served, on loan from Bennett Jones, as an officer of the XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee in Calgary.

To those that say «he's still a murderer»; if you feel that the judge did not pass adequate judgement and that this man's life is better spent in the grave also, then perhaps you should start pursuing a legal career to ensure harsher punishments more frequently instead of just inciting reaction on CNN's blog.

Abdus - Salaam, a Washington, D.C., native and 1974 graduate of Barnard College, graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1977 and started a career as a staff attorney at East Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., according to her profile on the state Office of Court Administration's website.

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«As far as assumption goes, he was to me, at the time of his contact, still employed by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial CLegal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Clegal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Court.

Jackson had a distinguished legal career, which led to a seat on the Supreme Court in 1941.

The e-mail is also a fundraising appeal that asks supporters to help Rice keep the spot on the air by contributing and warns rather ominously that she will be the subject of attacks in the coming weeks «by career politicians and wealthy political insiders who will stop at nothing to make sure that our state's next lawyer is a politician, rather than a career legal advocate.»

Most of them have gone on to successful legal careers, high - powered PhD programs, and one (paradoxically a «devout Pastafarian») is getting his Master's in Divinity at Harvard.

In the meantime, stem cell research and the careers of stem cell researchers hang on a legal roller coaster.

I began practicing law in 1988 and have focused a large part of my legal career on protecting renters» rights.

Abandoning the screen for a career as a legal secretary the same year that Zelig was released, fate guided Jeter back into his true calling when a producer, recalling his role in television's Designing Women, asked that he take a supporting role on the Burt Reynolds» sitcom Evening Shade.

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.

His ego perversely inflated by the invitation (he thought he was embarking on a career as an amateur criminologist), Broomfield learned practically on the stand that he was only there to tie a loose end involving Wuornos's ex-lawyer Steve Glazer (a.k.a. «Dr. Legal»), the centre of attention in Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.

McConaughey returns to the slick lawyer roles he played in the pre-walking-punchline stage of his career with The Lincoln Lawyer, a new legal thriller based on a Michael Connelly novel in the time - and airport - tested tradition of John Grisham.

The film was shot in 2005 — long before co-producers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella passed on, long before leading lady Anna Paquin's career was transformed by «True Blood» — and has languished in post-production purgatory (with occasional trips into legal hell) ever since.

Bersin, Colvin tells us, the son of «Russian immigrants» (better described as Eastern European Jews) in Brooklyn, had «benefited from a rigorous public school education» (though there is no mention of his attending one of New York City's examination high schools); gone on to Harvard, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar, in the same class as Bill Clinton), and Yale Law School; and enjoyed a successful legal career culminating in service as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California.

Throughout her more than twenty - year legal career, Romney has represented and advised clients in numerous industries on a wide range of matters, including: acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, commercial transactions and corporate governance.

Many years ago, in the mid 1970's, when I began my career as a legal services lawyer practicing consumer law, it seemed that we were on a roll.

It wasn't her day job that led Hoffman to a career change, but her membership in the New York City Bar, as the founder and leader of the Bar's Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals.

by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in USA Today Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee «resistance.»

There are a lot of peculiarities to the legal industry, but chief amongst those is the fact that your career may occasionally depend on your ability to demonstrate — in writing — what it is you told someone else.

As part of Lawyer Monthly's new series on law school, recruitment and careers in the legal sector, John Oxley, Barrister at Vardags relays an educational piece below on the journey from paralegal to managing partner, and everything in between.

Based on that data, ALM Intelligence plans to create new kinds of career - focused analytics in Legal Compass that could show, as an example, that a lawyer who graduates from X law school typically takes X years to make partner.

Lawyer Monthly hears from Jonathan on the challenges and complexities involved in heading up the legal team at Bosch, how the internet and advent of technology is changing the landscape of said challenges, and on the future goals and prospects of his legal career.

But more than that, my career path helps me on the «human» part of the business; working closely with IP in modern technology companies makes it easier to understand the technical part of the issues and makes one a better person to talk to in relation to blockchain developers and understand the content of product, which is surely the core part of the whole legal structure of the ICO.

She went on to forge an outstanding legal career, featuring notable firsts, including being the first woman to obtain a divorce for a client and the first to lead the prosecution in a murder trial.

I am led to believe that, not in huge numbers but visibly so, legal and professional publishers welcome incoming staff with publishing qualifications and that people with legal and similar backgrounds are studying on publishing courses in order to advance or create their careers in those branches of the industry.

In our half - hour conversation, he talks about his career, his thoughts on legal education, his advice for lawyers, and why he recently launched his own blog.

I must admit that I had some reservations at first over the concept of the book, which is in essence an overview of the legal career — both as a legal scholar and a judge — of José Luís Da Cruz Vilaça, on the basis of a series of articles on different topics written over the course of two decades.

Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan said in a statement on the hiring that Boylan «had a legal career filled with millions of dollars» worth of courtroom victories.»

As part of Lawyer Monthly's new series on law school, recruitment and careers in the legal sector, Jo Mercer, HR...

As a newly qualified graduate, presumably you looked for a legal practice that would support you in your professional development, and the same criteria applies at this stage in your career as much as it did on day one.

Sheri Qualters reports in The National Law Journal on a new Association of Corporate Counsel survey that finds 85 percent of chief legal officers find their careers to be rewarding.

Early in his career, Engel was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand and he has since become an expert on its legal culture.

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/08/09/a2j-unaffordable-legal-services-concepts-and-solutions/ We must change law societies» management structure substantially, or get rid of them, or go on serving out the rest of our careers in a very seriously depressed profession — a profession that is rapidly losing its size, power, purpose, and prestige to, inter alia, the commercial world of LegalX and LegalZoom, and to law society - sponsored «alternative legal services,» which are charity instead of affordable lawyers provided in exchange for that majority's paying for the justice system whereat benchers earn a very good living.

A shareholder in the Casualty Department, Mark has spent his legal career defending insurance carriers, self - insured companies and individuals on a broad array of matters including products liability, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents and medical malpractice cases.

In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iIn fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iin several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iIn reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iin their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iin a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.

In the legal sector as well as other professional businesses, the concept of managing information on paper is well established among those who began their careers as early or earlier than either of us have.

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Nelligan O'Brien Payne also participates in many charitable and social activities throughout the year, emphasizing early on in our students» legal career the importance of staying active in the community.

As the principal of Newman ADR, Justice Sandra Schultz Newman developed her mediation skills early on in her career, spending nearly 20 years in a private legal practice.

The present value of the lifetime earnings of a female lawyer, which the plaintiff relies on, who starts a legal career in 2015, is $ 1,864,800.

In 2004, Carolle put her legal career on hiatus to pursue her passion as a professional dancer with Mocean Dance, a company she co-founded in 200In 2004, Carolle put her legal career on hiatus to pursue her passion as a professional dancer with Mocean Dance, a company she co-founded in 200in 2001.

Nick began his legal career as a paralegal at Corker Binning in 2011, focusing on missing trader intra-community fraud (part of Operation Vaulter).

Yvonne Smyth, Managing Director at Hays Legal, offers some practical advice on how to improve your chances of securing a training contract and also examines some of the other alternative careers in law.

I began my legal career like many lawyers do, first as a trainee, then a junior, an associate and so on; but this is a risky and competitive market, and in order to attract clientele a supportive system is crucial.

Social mobility in the legal profession, commissioned by the legal communications specialist Byfield Consultancy, draws on interviews with lawyers at all stages of their careers from those starting out such as Subashini Nathan, presently a paralegal for a legal aid firm, through to Lady Justice Hallett, the fifth woman to sit as an Appeal judge.