Sentences with phrase «outside lawyers about»

Elaine's lawyers have been trying — so far unsuccessfully — to gain access to communications between Wynn and its outside lawyers about the settlement.

There's a lot of talk about it, without a whole lot of talking to actual in house counsel and outside lawyers about what they're seeing about it.

Not exact matches

Even though Multicom drew on its in - house legal counsel as well as on outside lawyers, its legal expenses were about average, according to Nasdaq.

He said «Perception is the problem» and narrated a story about how he assisted a lawyer who worked at the AG's office in the 90s to undergo surgery outside Ghana.

The Legislature chairman and county comptroller also threatened to sue Poloncarz, and they asked the county attorney how to go about hiring an outside lawyer to do that.

Financial disclosures filed last year show 24 lawmakers, mostly lawyers, were making about as much or more in outside income as their $ 79,500 base annual pay from the state.

Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, a Democrat from Rockland County, asked members of the industry a series of questions about possible regulations, including whether an age limit of 18 or 21 was appropriate (18, a FanDuel lawyer replied), whether information about problem gambling was made available (yes, through an outside link, Schiller said), whether there are prohibitions on employees of sporting teams who might have inside knowledge playing (no, because their knowledge would be a statistically insignificant advantage, the companies said) and whether players were limited in their number of entries they could make in a given day.

Durand's lawyer told reporters outside court she knew nothing about how campaign contribution limits work.

Silver defense lawyer Steve Molo said Bharara's statements after Silver's arrest broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside of court, and prejudiced the grand jury that indicted him last week.

Former Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and at least five others will be questioned by a conservative watchdog group's lawyers seeking information about Abedin's overlapping employment at the U.S. State Department, the Clinton Foundation and an outside consulting firm.

Financial disclosures filed last year show just 24 state lawmakers — mostly lawyers — were making about as much or more in outside income as their $ 79,500 base annual pay from the state.

Silver's lawyers, while entering a not guilty plea for him on Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, argued that Bharara broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside court and may have prejudiced the grand jury that indicted Silver.

While the prosecution had argued Mr. Silver had no real experience actually practicing law, Mr. Molo insisted that was not the case and that he was an experienced personal injury attorney who sometimes was approached about cases outside his speciality that he referred to other lawyers for a routine fee.

The governor wants to limit legislators» outside income to about $ 12,000 a year — a clear reaction to former assemblyman Sheldon Silver, whose lawyer argued during his corruption trial, «It's virtually impossible for someone to serve in this citizen - legislator model and not have some form of conflict.

Meanwhile, Antonacci's lawyers complain that Mahoney's administration is giving records to the plaintiffs about Antonacci's income outside of his county job.

Being the third wheel on someone else's first date is rarely as delightful as it is in «Southside With You,» Richard Tanne's charming film about two 20 - something lawyers spending some time together outside of the office in 1989 Chicago.

Considering that this is a book about books and our rambling narrator is a lawyer specializing in a somewhat dry and usually far from dangerous field, it is a happy moment for the reader to discover that Jake is a weight - lifter good enough to have competed in the Olympics, and that his father is a well - connected mob accountant currently living outside the reach of the American legal system.

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with using outside and creative talent to craft a blog, a lawyer that uses a «ghost blogger» without a disclaimer, to publicly advertise the lawyer's engagement with and competence in a particular area, violates Rule 7.1's prohibition against misleading statements or claims in public communications about the lawyer or the lawyer's services.

I met with a lawyer a couple of weeks ago in a small town about two hours outside of the Twin Cities.

If the lawyer acts for clients who are prevented from storing data outside of Canada, this will be a very important consideration when thinking about the law firm's use of cloud resources.

I think it has become pretty common for outside counsel, at least, to have instructions from the very top of corporate clients that any wrongdoing the lawyers come to know about in working with the corporation must be reported to the top.

It is a podcast by Silicon Valley technology lawyer Richard C. Hsu in which he talks with lawyers about hobbies they pursue outside of law.

The GC relayed a story about a recent conversation with one of the Bank's outside lawyers.

Too many lawyers just rely completely on outside «professionals» and end up being taken advantage of, simply because they don't know the first thing about the marketing strategy they are using.

Now, as Jack describes, and I have written about in prior blogs, lawyers have been tested and shown to score low on sociability, one among six traits where lawyers score outside the norm on 18 personality traits examined in the Caliper test.

It's true that sometimes lawyers whine about their plight, while those outside the law find it difficult to empathize with those who can't make themselves happy on $ 160,000 a year.

For corporate counsel and law firm partners wanting to evaluate the credentials of other lawyers and make a decision about which outside counsel to retain, 84 percent said that Martindale - Hubbell and either important or very important to the decision.

It's not just the industry as a whole that's changing, and we talk about that a lot, but really it's the individual lawyers thinking outside the box, pushing the boundaries of what we've been taught in the traditional model, and just getting out there and delivering legal services in new ways that's really forming what we call this future of law practice.

It comes down to this passage from an October 2000 ABA Journal article written by Terry Carter about the murder prosecution of a Philadelphia policeman for the shooting of a Black man: «The political stakes were raised in May when the DA accepted outside help in the case from her former boss, Richard Sprague, perhaps the most powerful lawyer - cum - fixer in the state.

For lawyers, that often means talking about things that an outside marketing consultant is not going to know about even if they are in constant contact with you, including changes in the law or your experiences with clients.

You're bringing people in, who are totally outside of the legal realm and maybe haven't been jaded, to go back to one of your previous points about lawyers.

Speak with lawyers and enquiry about their interests outside of work.

Then... there's communication about all or some of contents of that client - lawyer consultation with someone who happens to be outside the scope of lawyer - client communications protected by the privilege:

Or is this only important in the arena he's talking about, dealing with information and data management where so many systems are vulnerable because they operate outside a lawyer or law firm's direct control.

Milone took on his first case in many years — representing a disabled teenager who is suing a public school district outside Philadelphia for better educational opportunities — and went on the road, preaching the good word about pro bono to lawyers in the firm's 11 largest American offices.»

What can we do to facilitate more biographies about legal scholars and lawyers whose ideas fall outside conventional legal thinking?

Those seeking sponsorship help from within or outside of Canada will be told about their options, if options are available to them, Duval says, adding lawyers will also help out in filling out forms and submitting applications.

You mentioned about a lawyer contracting out tech competence and it could be an associate in the firm or an outside contractor.

On the other hand, it seems answering a slightly different question than what I asked - you keep saying «well, lawyer will is better if your situation isn't as simple as you say», but doesn't at all address the case that I ask about, where the situation literally IS as simple as one says - no debts outside mortgage, no prior spouses, no family members outside kids to contest the inheritance, no interstate assets, no assets with complex tax issues, etc...

In a recent post, Joshua Baron argued that lawyers should use an outside perspective, in the form of statistical data, to advise their clients about whether to proceed to trial.

But what about when lawyers act outside adversarial proceedings?

Although over 95 % of divorce cases settle outside of Court, there is always a chance that your case will end up going to trial regardless of how diligent you and your lawyer are about attempting to resolve the case fairly and quickly.

I know a lawyer who routinely would send mass emails to dozens of lawyers outside his firm asking if anyone knew about a particular judge.

Ronald Minkoff was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA article, «New York Okays Temporary Practice by Outside Lawyers,» about New York's leadership on allowing foreign attorneys to work temporarily in New York.

If you worked your way through all the firm lawyers and back to a law department, you might get a different answer about what outside lawyers do for the companies they represent.

Many lawyers objected to my proposals about outside ownership, arguing that the profit motive ran contrary to the proper objectives of running a legal practice.

«Lawyers will do anything to avoid talking about fees,» said Brown, noting that pricing conversations are difficult for both inside and outside counsel.

Our friend's answer came to mind while reading an interesting roundup of experienced trial lawyers over the weekend about why the trial of Bill Cosby outside Philadelphia resulted in a deadlocked jury and mistrial, announced on Saturday.

The rest were already part of Dentons, and many lived and practiced outside the United States without US law degrees; all told, Dentons had about three dozen internationally - oriented lawyers resident in China before the merger.

When it comes to establishing fault, a lawyer can turn to outside experts and inspectors who will be able to testify about what truly happened in your case.