Sentences with phrase «opposing lawyers about»

Talk with opposing lawyers about what else they are working on — some may boast about their next targets.

In a personal injury lawsuit, there are always conflicting views and opinions presented by opposing lawyers about what happened and who is at fault.

Not exact matches

And while there is no legal requirement that underwriters like Mr. Thiel reveal their involvement to the opposing side or the jury, it is considered fair game for lawyers to ask questions about financial backing — something that Gawker Media did on Wednesday in court as part of its efforts to overturn the Hogan judgment.

Yesterday, the same day an appeals court questioned lawyers about the case, the government filed documents in a lower court arguing that the lawsuit brought by two researchers who oppose human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research should be thrown out.

I'm not a lawyer so I feel unqualified to make too many assumptions about courtroom procedures, but I can well imagine that the tutorial session, with presentations from the respective view points of opposing councils, would establish a baseline and set a professional tone for the subsequent proceedings as well as to give insight as to how the participants think.

«[T] he science to me — and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer — the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all.

Had the defense lawyers notified opposing counsel about the clients» fraud, the lawyers might have discharged the client themselves.

I wrote about law firm blogging 2 1/2 years ago, at Law21, and my opinion at that time was that blogs were a mediocre fit for law firms (as opposed to the lawyers inside them):

By processing this enriched data, lawyers can draw conclusions about opposing counsel, judges, litigation parties, and contract drafts in order to reveal insights that were not previously knowable.

Sharon Nelson: Well, I should mention to the audience that I am very grateful to David who agreed to speak to the Virginia State Bar's Committee on the future of the practice of law and so I've had the pleasure of speaking with him before and you were absolutely marvelous to do that for us, and one of the things we talked about that day, as you'll recall, is how the American legal industry has remained stubbornly opposed to ABS in any form, so I'm going to repeat a question I asked you when you spoke to the Committee, why do you think American lawyers are so opposed to ABS?

The lawyer from the opposing side has up to 7 hours to ask you questions about the accident and the injuries you obtained.

To me, this inconsistency suggests that while the ABA opposes mandatory retirement officially, in the end, it doesn't really care much about the plight of older lawyers.

What about yelling at opposing lawyers?

In an age where email has become a standard medium for communication among lawyers, potential clients, actual clients, opposing counsel, and judges, the way you present yourself speaks volumes about your reputation, professionalism, and credibility.

Through my interactions, I learned about many of the same problems discussed in Professor Julie Macfarlane's research, including the uncivil conduct of opposing lawyers.

Why are there rarely films about actors as opposed to about lawyers / doctors / soldiers etc?

Some of it has happened sort of independently of what the lawyers have actually been doing, and more having to do with how Google's getting smarter, and when we talk about specifically in local search, that's definitely played a big role, that Google has evolved to give much more localized and personalized results than they used to, and that's caused the effect of people in your local area being able to find local lawyers, as opposed to if you wrote about a consumer law post and somebody on the other side of the country finds it, now you're going to see Google serving results for consumer lawyers that are in the neighborhood, around the corner.

I believe Ms Dyck's post is about the need to look at «legal stuff» in a more collaborative way as opposed to the lawyers vs. non-lawyers dichotomy.

SRLs just think that lawyers are manipulating the system to delay their matter and confuse them, and complain that when they bring forward something that they believe to be important to the merits (rightly or wrongly, and usually because they have read about it in a case or on a law website) they are regularly told that they are wasting the court's time (ironically, often because they are speaking to the merits, when the motion requires them to only address the colour of opposing counsel's socks).

In our latest regular column for Legal Action magazine, YLAL co-chairs Ollie and Rachel wrote about the common ground between legal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent years.

At the end of the day, law is always about who will give the work to you, as opposed to another lawyer.

He was also accused of making inflammatory comments about the opposing lawyer, including that he «treats Hispanics like servants and noble savages that need his superlative help and guidance.»

In such cases, I found that it was critical to be crystal clear with everyone involved — the client, the opposing party or lawyer and the court — about the nature and extent of my involvement in the file.

In the year 2011, one of the new things lawyers apparently need to worry about is that the opposing party will create an animated video celebrating a legal victory and mercilessly mocking the losing lawyers.

Like most lawyers, Jamie Quient has heard how building a network is key to getting business referrals, learning the quirks of opposing counsel, or hearing insightful tidbits about courtroom conduct.

When lawyers connect with other lawyers through social networking sites, they may not think about the day in the future when they face one of those lawyers as opposing counsel.

And I can see the lawyers who are headed into the station of no more business as opposed to those headed to phase 2 and one major step closer to the lives they really want in which they are serving the clients they love without stress and not worrying about the day to day details of running their business.

One of the main opposing arguments to come out in class discussion was that the proposed rule would unfairly place responsibility on lawyers, when there may be other players, like accountants, who know about the hypothetical impending fraud.

The case study was obviously created by someone who does not know enough about wills law, but then it is easy to denigrate or even jettison a practice area one knows little about, does not practice in, derives no income from, and never receives the appreciative feedback from the individual, as opposed to corporate, clients who have been so well served at modest cost by the lawyers in that «expendable» area.

The mentoring program pairs a mentor with a new (5 years or less) lawyer (the mentee) to meet on a regular basis and discuss: the decision — making process about managing a practice, important factors to consider when accepting a client, client communications, handling difficult clients or opposing counsel, and work — life balance issues.

If there is a joint session then kick up a fuss about essential matters like the seating arrangement, the fact there may be more than one lawyer on the other side, or that the opposing party's spouse wishes to sit in.

But he remained cool and collected when opposing counsel fired sarcastic questions about the soured deal, perhaps on the advice of his Chicago injury lawyer.

The lawyer opposing my former client wants me to give evidence about the advice I gave her and the instructions I received leading up to the settlement.

For example, companies like Lex Machina (now owned by LexisNexis) and Premonition are using data analytics to give lawyers valuable insights about opposing counsel, courts, etc. to craft better arguments and assess the value of cases.

The best way to start in thinking about an app is defining a problem that you know your clients have that could possibly be solved via technology as opposed to going to a lawyer.

In the collaborative meetings, it's about managing the emotion in the room, it's about keeping the lawyers on track, and sometimes redirecting towards the interests and concerns that people have as opposed to getting into positioning, which sometimes happens in these meetings.

«A lawyer that's three years out of law school can now know more about a judge, opposing counsel or party than a lawyer who's been practicing in the area for 25 years,» Byrd said.

It is a spy thriller about a lawyer being smeared by politicians because they believe he has information that can implicate them in criminal matters — the murder of a politician who was opposing a privacy bill that is really a bill empowering mass surveillance.

As opposed to «allowing» the use of retired lawyers where one party could be incurring substantial costs while the other incurs none - therefore having no real «incentive» to resolve the issue as it then just becomes about their time.

In a decision that recognizes the importance of fostering informal mentorship, the Ontario Superior Court held (in 1623242 Ontario Inc. v Great Lakes Copper Inc., 2014 ONSC 782 (CanLII)-RRB- that a lawyer who provides a general opinion about the state of the law to a colleague without being privy to the specific details of the colleague's case or the identity of his or her client and is later retained by a client opposed in interest to the colleague's client is not thereby disqualified from representing his own clients.

You can find out just about anything you might want to find out about a client, opposing party, lawyer, or judge if you know how to look for it.

It is hard to describe exactly, but I am thinking really of inculcating a mind - set or habits of thinking: approaching legal problems as a lawyer thinking about the practical needs of their client, as opposed to as an abstract, philosophical or intellectual problem.

This post is brought to you courtesy of one of my holdover litigation cases... It is amazing to me how every dealing I have with the opposing counsel on this case leads me to write about ethics and divorce lawyers.