Sentences with phrase «point about lawyers»

Your question raises a really interesting point about lawyers and other legal workers who take a significant leave.

Good point about the lawyer, I need to make sure I am legally able to take possession of the shares after he buys them with my money!

I think Jordan's post makes some very good points about lawyers and our reticence to advertise.

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.

The point about the lawyer was to show that there are many people who are clearly capable to handle thier own real estate transaction without an agent there for every step and a real estate lawyer would clearly be one of them.

Not exact matches

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada says he continues to support the idea that Canadians could pursue the removal of online information about themselves in some circumstances, even though some lawyers have pointed out hurdles may exist in Canadian law.

And churches are intimidated, to the point of gagging themselves, by their own lawyers who fret about the loss of tax exemption.

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Her lawyer, Donna Moniz, also declined to talk about Bizzell's case, except to point out that the investigation into Henry's death was closed without charges being brought.

Lawyers for Percoco and co-defendant Steven Aiello at different points raised issues with emails that Howe had sent which included misogynistic and anti-Semitic remarks about various people.

Speaking to Class News, Edudzi Tameklo, one of the lawyers for the convicts said: «It is much ado about nothing and I make this point because... the president is opportune to exercise his prerogative of mercy [and will] not do that on the basis of how many petitions or signatures have been [collected].

The state representative and lawyer was recruited to challenge two - term GOP Rep. French Hill in a district that Trump carried by about 11 points.

But the more Molly's Game tries to decide what its story is about rather than just telling it, the more the film feels like it's trying to «solve» Molly rather than portray her, to the point where its two big emotional moments involve Molly being sat down and informed about her own daddy issues by one male character, and getting passionately defended by another, her lawyer (Idris Elba), while she stays silent.

At no point, though, does either parent think about their growing daughter Casey (Drew Barrymore), who becomes so fed up that she hires a lawyer (Allen Garfield) to help her divorce her mom and dad.

It is about a young lawyer who is manipulated to the point of driving him insane.

Additionally, talking about lawsuits, as we pointed out before, a mortgage on a property could serve as a poison pill against greedy lawyers trying to sue you and a put option on the property value in case of idiosyncratic catastrophic losses.

Divorce lawyers offer these pieces of advice for people about to divorce who are concerned with reward points and miles:

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.

The first thing that any business lawyer would ask a corporation in a similar dispute is: even if you're right about FOI and IPR, is there any point to getting into this fight?

«[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.

The privacy commissioner of Canada says he supports the idea that Canadians could pursue the removal of online information about themselves in some circumstances, even though some lawyers have pointed out hurdles may exist in Canadian law.

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We are talking about those law - and lawyer - related tattoos that are embarrassingly on point, be they too sincere or too ridiculous.

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Blaney McMurtry podcasts Blaneys lawyers talk about a variety of legal topics, often using news stories and recent cases as their jumping off point.

The problem is that it is conceivable at some point that one of the recipients of the firm's email newsletter — for example, a prospect who forgets that he once met a lawyer from the firm at a tradeshow over a year ago (which lawyer then added this contact's name to the firm's CRM system)-- might complain about the firm's domain to an anti-spam organization.

A key point of the article is that many lawyers needlessly shy away from blogging because they are concerned about the time commitment required to publish regularly.

When you retain me as your Pleasanton personal injury lawyer, you will not have to think about money unless I win your claim, at which point it will only be a matter of how much you receive.

Rather than trying to observe and understand a client's matter as a system of influences and dynamics, lawyers often focus intently on getting from «Point A» to «Point B.» Such a restrictive communications paradigm actually can cause a lawyer to fail to perceive and ask about something that is important to the client, and possibly critical to the successful resolution of the client's matter.

It does so by providing factual data from millions of litigation records about the behavior and performance of law firms and individual lawyers — including data points like win rates, cases with resolutions, time to injunction, etc., in specific areas of law.

I've been reading Jordan Furlong's book, and he points out that although we love to say corporations make money and we're a profession, we're somehow above that, what is it that lawyers are constantly thinking about all the time, is money, right?

Shoosmiths chief executive Claire Rowe echoes the point: «The key message coming from our in - house lawyer client base is very much about needing us to do more for less — they want better value.

I think the lesson here is lawyers and law firms should make a point of having a conversation on the front end when they're vetting IT consultants to have a frank conversation about how those consultants make money and which products in particular they are representatives for or have commission relationships for and to make sure that you can still get the advice you want or the recommendations you want in light of that.

Sooner or later, smaller clients than Kia will start asking pointed questions about their lawyers» technological competence, too.

Toronto lawyer and president of the South Asian Bar Association, Ranjan Agarwal, has voiced concerns about diversifying the bench, pointing out that the push needs to start earlier by ensuring the feeder system holds sufficiently diverse candidates.

Law practice guru Allison Shields was on to something when she pointed out how lawyers can learn about client service from the hospitality industry.

But I am pointing out that lawyers are timid beasts much of the time when it comes to public statements about the quality of judges and their judging; some won't even criticize rulings in print for fear that they'll create grudges.

I was addressing this point, not engaging in a technical squabble about whether «actual voting» takes 90 seconds, or how much time a lawyer must spend «all at the same time».

His point being that deep thinking about social issues is often curtailed by the lawyer's resort to judicial precedent.

But Seidman does point out some facts about our history that any lawyer (or any thoughtful citizen) should confront.

Saying that we want lawyers to act ethically is about as useful as saying that we want governments to act constitutionally; both are self - evidently true, but they reveal nothing about where the points of difficulty, challenge and contention arise in accomplishing those goals.

Sam Glover: What bugs me about getting challenged on that point is, I think it's lawyers who are trying to save their consciousness and justify continuing to do almost nothing.

As South Carolina points out: Rule 7.1 expressly provides that an attorney must ensure that the communication does not contain any false, misleading, deceptive or unfair information about the lawyer or her services.

A firm should find multiple opportunities throughout the year, at various touch points in a relationship, to learn about the client and their perception of their firm and its lawyers.

The one thing we didn't talk about, which is I think maybe worth raising now, is she pointed out to me before we started recording that she can't charge as much as a lawyer.

Sam Glover: Actually, his larger point is more about the need for alternative client service models, that if there is essentially... Now there are maybe two or three different client service models, but that the lawyers need to stop selling one product in one way and marketing it in one way, and lawyers need to reach out and try and find alternative ways to create client service models, market them, deliver them, all that kind of stuff.

It's possible, but I am sure that a huge majority, a huge number of lawyer client relationships go right off the rails at the first meeting, at the initial retainer when the client comes in and starts talking about what they want and at some point, the lawyer's going to interrupt them and I saw a study once that said the amount of time between when the client starts speaking and a lawyer interrupts them is at seven seconds, which I can totally believe, right?

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