Sentences with phrase «only practicing lawyer»

When writing for an audience that includes not only the practicing lawyers who will be guided by their opinions but also members of the public who will feel their impact, judges can hardly be blamed for turning to pop culture to get their message across.

I found only practicing lawyers.

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Any future settlement will presumably also have to do more to inform email users about Google's scanning practices and, possibly, direct some of the settlement money to consumers instead of only the lawyers.

Massachusetts is one of only three states in the U.S. that doesn't license title insurers, and lawyers stand to make the most out of the practice (and have lobbied to keep it this way).

«A particularly strong factor in deciding to publish this new edition was driven by the continuous change in terms of the standards of practice required not only of agents and brokers, but also of lawyers, mortgage brokers, lenders, financial advisors, appraisers and other involved parties,» says Rumack.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

While Holmes frankly admitted that he hated facts and used them only as pegs on which to hang legal principles, Brandeis, as a practicing lawyer, immersed himself in the facts of a case to show that a particular outcome was the more just.

But, 95 % + of the lawyers in the state use less than 10 % of the statutes by page length, on any regular basis, and I probably use only 10 % of the tax code and 5 % of the tax regulations despite having an extremely broad tax practice in terms of the variety of subjects I deal with compared to the average lawyer who does tax work.

In New York, a number of seemingly anonymous locations — the lawyer's office, the doctor's, the dentist's — have become places to see the kind of art that you might only hope to view in a gallery or a museum, thanks to medical professionals» practice of trading treatment with artists.

Of course this is only my opinion, as a long - ago retired trial lawyer, but I would suggest that the operators of Smashwords and LULU businesses make sure to keep copies of this article and seek the legal advice of a practicing attorney with experience in matters of this nature.

CD Projekt isn't the only company to have sent these shakedown letters via its lawyers, with others fingered by torrentfreak.com back in 2012 including Koch, Codemasters, EIDOS, Ubisoft and Kalypso, though it was one of the more ironic, after having made a big deal out of actively avoiding standard industry practices like DRM.

For now, it remains open only to lawyers who are in private practice or who work as corporate counsel.

The change is designed not only to help low - income litigants, but also to let trial - starved lawyers connect with a jury, relate to a judge, and develop other trial skills mastered only through real - life practice.

Looking at the issue this way, if Groupon is only splitting the funds collected as a fee for its advertisement services, then no harm has come to the lawyer's independence in practice.

The primary goal of this talk is to inspire lawyers to embrace technology — in particular cloud technology — not only to make their practices more efficient, ethical and effective, but to deliver superior and differentiated service to their clients.

Opposing counsel, the way a judge reads and applies the law, clients who seemingly make time for you only to complain, other lawyers in your practice needing the folks on your team — all of these, and more, are hard or impossible to manage.

It's not unusual for lawyers to continue on in spite of the challenges they face only to see their practice grind to a screeching halt when facing a law society discipline committee.

The effect of the proposal found above would be to allow only these government lawyers who hold the designation to enjoy the privilege of precedence, even above and beyond lawyers in private practice with greater seniority and greater experience who simply don't have the designation (s. 3 (4)-RRB-.

Eight percent of solos and 9 % of lawyers in firms of 2 - 9 attorneys use a domain name that is based on a practice area rather than on the firm name; only 1 % of larger firms use this type of domain name.

In a practice where one bills on the basis of block fees for a particular project or result, the question «Can you be a good lawyer if you are only billing 1200 hours per year» becomes even sillier than David Chiefetz cheekily makes it out to be.

This isn't only frustrating (and scary) for new lawyers, but it doesn't allow for a full development of the legal skills that are necessary to have a successful practice.

Rodrigue, who oversaw the opening of the Montreal office in Place Ville Marie on April 2, following her nomination as Montreal managing partner in February, said she is building a team with lawyers not only called to both Canada's common law and Quebec's civil regime jurisdictions but having an active practice in both.

By querying pages using the custom field parameters, it's also possible to pull this information in a «reverse» fashion, and display the names of each lawyer that has a practice group checked on the practice page itself, even though that association has only been made in the lawyer profile custom fields.

Improving quality of service would entail a client - centred approach that would encompass not only the possible referral to a specialist lawyer or lawyer more experienced in a particular practice area, it also encompases referrals to lesser fee approaches really requiring all legal professionals to act with intergrity in the interest of the client.

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The foundation's report — «Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law» — studied 16 U.S. and Canadian schools and observed that most law schools give only casual attention to teaching students how to use legal thinking in the complexity of actual law practice.

The phrase I've italicized is the same as the language that the ABA recommended in 2012 when it approved a change to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its practice, but also in technology.

My vision for MyCase is to be the only place that lawyers need to go in order to run and manage their entire practice.

Gibbons is one of only 20 law firms nationwide to be named to the National Law Journal's inaugural «Midsize Hot List», which recognized firms with fewer than 300 lawyers that have found innovative ways to position themselves and demonstrated creativity and success in recruiting and retaining top talent, developing practice areas, managing operations and generally navigating the economic downturn more effectively than did many larger firms.

It is truly a collaborative learning opportunity that in the end, can only help all personal injury lawyers better understand and practice a kind of law that has such a personal and deep impact on the client's we serve.»

Harris Personal Injury Lawyers only practice personal injury; therefore, they are particularly skilled and experienced in personal injury litigation.

Created by practicing lawyers who understand first - hand the importance of ensuring that sensitive information goes only to the right people, ReplyToSome is an Outlook add - in application that helps lawyers and other professionals minimize the risk that their emails will go to unintended parties.

Only a skilled and experienced lawyer can sort through the inherent dangers involved with hunting practices and products, and decide your best course of action.

The reason for this may be that, according to the survey, only 16 % of lawyers participate regularly in social media, and the longer a lawyer has practiced, the less likely they will use social media.

Like the three reports discussed above, and, in fact, drawing heavily on those reports, the curricular change literature generally takes the position that the case - dialogue method of pedagogy does not sufficiently prepare law students to become practicing lawyers.74 While students learn basic case analysis skills through this method, they are usually not explicitly taught how to integrate those skills into a larger set of lawyering skills, in particular those identified as fundamental in the MacCrate Report.75 Further, while reading and analyzing cases, the focus of most law school classes, are important lawyering skills, they represent only a small portion of what lawyers actually do.76 Consequently, these commentators advocate for teaching legal skills as they are used in their real - world context, not merely as abstract ideas, and for integrating theoretical analysis and practical skills.77

The designation of Rising Star is given to only the top 2.5 percent of lawyers in New Mexico who are either 40 years old or younger or in practice for ten years or less.

Attorneys employed and assigned by Latitude provide legal services only under the professional oversight of an in - house or private - practice lawyer for the client who is not associated with Latitude.

I recall that as a very new lawyer pre-Internet, my «practice of law» consisted largely of researching information that was only accessible to those who knew the arcane legal research system — and very little analysis and application to the client's world.

The practice is ranked in Band 1 for Chambers USA (2015), one of only four firms to receive the highest ranking, and 31 individual lawyers are recognized by Chambers as leaders in their field.

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Only a single lawyer in each practice area and metropolitan area is honored as the Lawyer of the Year.

Noting that there is momentum toward moving some elements of the practice of law to other licensed professionals, the report also beautifully states that much of the work can, and should, be performed only by lawyers:

And, of course, in practice, the implicit and often explicit message is that lawyers are worth their high fees only when they are correct.

«The concept appeals to firms that want to position themselves to capture a generation coming up that will only want to deal with lawyers over the Internet,» Richard Granat says,» For the general practice law firm in areas like family law these concepts will mainstream.»

Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is honored as the «Lawyer of the Year.»

In 2011, only 16 % of lawyers reported using cloud computing in their law practices, with that number increasing only slightly in 2012 to 21 %.

Only after a personal assessment provides a lawyer that understanding, can they begin to seek out technology alternatives, allowing them to practice at the top of their licenses.

For lawyers aspiring to full - time practice (8 hours a day) that means they are actually bringing in money for only 20 % of the hours they work.

I have often made reference to the fact that, in my humble opinion, lawyers (both in private practice and inhouse counsel) must become increasingly comfortable with using social media to promote not only their achievements and relevant or interesting best practices or developments in their legal practice area, but also to build and grow their personal brand and networks.

Of Washington's three law schools, SU produces not only the largest number of new lawyers who go directly into a solo practice, but has done so historically, with a high of 21 solos from the 2010 graduating class.