Sentences with phrase «people speak to a lawyer»

Many people speak to a lawyer before going into mediation in order to plan for the mediation session.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The lawyers we spoke to — all good people — referred to the process whereby natural law was abandoned as though it were a foreign language that they could follow but had not learned to speak.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Recently promoted to Chief People Officer and General Counsel, Misti Mukherjee is a distinguished lawyer who has worked with a variety of Fortune 50 companies on employment issues and frequently speaks to leading HR groups about attracting, motivating and retaining employees.

The fierce criticism of a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Kremlin - linked lawyer in June 2016 has left the president by turns angry, defensive and protective but ultimately relieved that for now, the worst appears to be over, people who spoke to him said.

According to Linda Ikeji, «I spoke with Wizkid through his lawyer on Friday April 15, 2016 where he tendered an apology to me and said he wasn't a violent person, that he didn't mean what he said, that it was just an emotional outburst.

Separately, the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities is holding confidential hearings in the UK as part of an investigation into the effects of welfare cuts, during which it will speak to campaigners, lawyers and service users.

Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.

«It's time to free the prisoners of the war on drugs,» declared Green Party governor candidate Howie Hawkins as he and the party's attorney general candidate and Bronx - based people's lawyer Ramon Jimenez spoke in front of Manhattan Criminal Court.

Apparently, the person involved and her lawyer expressed that she had no authorization to speak about what happened to her, as she had reported specifics in an earlier article.

You will be speaking with a range of people from fellow employment lawyers who understand the legal vocabulary to business people who don't have specialist knowledge and just want the job done.

However, they can keep you from speaking to anyone but a lawyer as that person could gain information from you that can corrupt their investigation.

Politicos want to know whether the «secret video» of Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraising event will hurt his chances in the upcoming presidential election, but some lawyers are pondering a different question: Did the person who made the tape violate state law?

When you are facing serious legal matters, you deserve to have your voice heard by the people who will be helping you, and that means always getting to speak with a lawyer about your case.

Many dig bite victims are reluctant to pursue legal action for fear of appearing litigious or even «silly;» popular culture often heaps scorn on people who speak to a personal injury lawyer after these incidents.

If you or a loved one has suffered harm due to the negligence of another person or business, a good piece of advice is to speak with an experienced Florida personal injury lawyer to learn about some of the issues that can arise, including how most insurance companies respond to these claims and the type and amount of damages you can recover.

If you need to speak with a defamation lawyer about a case involving a Nevada business or person, get in touch.

Your bio should speak to your audience and the kind of people who would be looking for a lawyer who specializes in your area of practice.

Want to speak with an experienced family law lawyer without having to navigate an extensive intake process or find time to meet in person?

If you have suffered a personal injury as a result of a car accident, bad food product, slip and fall, dangerous or defective product or other injury through the negligence of another person or company you are probably wondering if you need to speak to a lawyer.

When I said it didn't sound like the folks I spoke to had even heard of the site, he said his people also take data on practice areas from combing the Internet, such as lawyers» own Web sites and other lawyer - evaluation hubs like Avvo and Martindale.

It is extremely important that you do NOT talk to the person who injured you, to their attorneys or to their insurance company before you speak to your lawyer.

Many people also settle their injury claims without first speaking to a personal injury lawyer, and without getting the proper legal representation that they deserve.

If you are doing the sorts of things that make people recognize you as a good lawyer in general, which is being active in your local legal community, publishing, speaking, and you make sure that your Avvo profile reflects those things, then get a couple of your colleagues who actually know you to leave a recommendation on your profile.

When I suggested ten years ago that email would become the principal means by which clients and lawyers would communicate, many people suggested I was dangerous, that I was possibly insane, that I should not be allowed to speak in public, and that I certainly did not understand anything about security or confidentiality but [email] technology and many other emerging technologies have now firmly taken hold.

Having grown up speaking several languages, and with a heart for helping people, our next thought leader was destined to be an immigration lawyer.

People speak about access to justice as a reason, but it's incorrect to think that swarming the market with new lawyers would facilitate that.

It's hard to get a microphone that everyone listens to and so you push out a lot of information through social media, through magazines, through e-mail, through public speaking to try to get people to listen and to come on board and you offer lots of benefits for workers, or to lawyers around the state.

Speaking at the recent Law Society Indigenous Law Issues program, Signa Daum Shanks, assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Director of York University's Indigenous Outreach program, suggested that the most useful approach for lawyers working with Indigenous people is to «have a bigger ear,» in the sense of actively resisting the tendency to rely on our assumptions and preconceptions.

People who have been subject to age discrimination or other types of unlawful workplace discrimination may benefit from speaking with an employment lawyer.

Speaking at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Indigenous Law Issues 2015 program, Randall Kahgee, former Chief of the Saugeen First Nation and now practising law in affiliation with Pape Salter Teillet LLP, urges lawyers to understand that the rights of aboriginal people, like the rights of all people, are continually evolving.

Staff Interactions — The person who often speaks to the client may not actually be the lawyer but the legal assistant or paralegal.

«Essentially, what I take from this ruling is that we can not say in advance that a collective decision that has to be taken by a group of people and embedded in a document, like a school board resolution or a municipal council decision, we can not say as a principle that because the resolution has to be written down, it speaks for itself,» says Yann Bernard, a partner at Langlois Lawyers LLP who represented the board.

I've spoken with many other successful people — lawyers, doctors, MBAs — and they all follow the same plan to some degree.

The reason those three were speaking was because they're kind of the businesses testing the limits of what it means to practice law and using the internet to provide legal services, and Mark Britton from Avvo said, «Look, to the extent that regulations are about ethics, about protecting people from fraud, from incompetence, those are the most important rules and to the extent they are about protecting lawyers or regulation for regulations sake, it's fucking bullshit.»

In those letters, people who either were clients of the Society or whose cases the Society did not accept, complained of being treated badly, of being insulted, of having to wait in long lines, of having attorneys speak down to them, of attorneys not recognizing that there was a legal claim or refusing to take a case because a private lawyer might take it.

You will be speaking with a range of people — from fellow employment lawyers who understand the legal vocabulary to business people who don't have specialist knowledge and just want the job done.

When you've been injured from the negligent actions of another person, you may want to consider speaking to a Washington DC personal injury lawyer.

But what we always tell lawyers when we go — and I speak around the state and I talk to people — is just return a phone call.

I spoke to my lawyer who said I do not have to answer anything over email and that I can answer relevant questions in person with an attorney present.

That title insurance is a thriving business today is testament at least in part to the fact that people have run the cost - benefit analysis and are willing to accept fewer guarantees in exchange for lower costs (it also speaks to lawyers» failure to market their services better).

It's an honor to speak to plaintiff's trial lawyers as they champion the cause of consumers and everyday people across this country.

In cases where a person has been, or is going to be, accused of robbery it is important to maintain your silence and speak to a criminal lawyer as soon as possible.

When a person has actually experienced an injury due to the negligence of another party it is a great decision to speak to a lawyer who specializes in injury.

When either your person or property has been damaged, it is also in your best interest to speak with a lawyer.

(And before you say: simple, get them to ask a lawyer, remember that most people will avoid speaking to a lawyer in person because they fear that the dreaded «taxi meter» will be started before they even decide to make a claim or get into the details of the matter.)

Here's a breakdown of how looking for and watching these videos compares with seeking out a lawyer to speak with in person.