Sentences with phrase «practice than its lawyers»

Not exact matches

With more than 100 lawyers, the office has well - established practices in corporate law, financial services, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and taxation and wealth planning.

A lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in both private practice and industry, Victoria has advised clients in many industries including technology, manufacturing, broadcasting and communications.

Dwight has also been a practicing lawyer for more than 35 years.

Commissioners who stand up for victims and witnesses in court rather than courts that simply perpetuate the working practices of lawyers.

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.

Terry, 61, a private practice lawyer from Roslyn Heights, earned more than $ 217,000 last year from six government positions controlled by Democratic Party officials or in party enclaves.

Also a crate of lawyers, each of whom thinks he's bigger than his small practice.

They should have known better than to take on a lawyer as a client: — RRB - But it also shows that even professional lawyers can be quite badly informed about fraudulent practices in vanity publishing.

It seems that the key point in certification being denied was that the plaintiffs» lawyers failed to demonstrate that the alleged actions (essentially shady selling of marketing services) were a company - wide / directed practice, rather than isolated cases.

In the age of complicated legal matters, many lawyers are increasingly specialized and you'll get better services from someone with a practice focus in a particular area of the law than a generalist who deals with a broad spectrum of legal issues.

Everiss's attacks have attracted attention from more than just gamers fascinated by Evony's ads and alleged practices; Warren McKeon Dickson Lawyers, an Australian law firm representing UMGE, sent notice that it would sue the marketer for damages and defamation unless he removed the articles from his site, published a form apology, and offered to «pay compensation for loss suffered by Evony.»

Is social media any better than the more traditional options for marketing a lawyer or a legal practice?

Once these producers have many thousands of customers, to a population facing «unaffordable lawyers» services,» law society prosecutions of them for the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) take on the very unpopular appearance of a strategy to eliminate a market competitor rather than protecting the public from faulty service providers.

After all, as most solo practitioners can attest, running a solo practice is about much more than lawyering; it's about running a business, like any other.

ABSs, where lawyers practice in business structures that allow ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated professionals

«If she failed it, and if most lawyers practicing in California would fail it too, then it's hard to see how it proves anything more than one's ability to study for and pass a test.»

As a lawyer, you have a personal relationship with each of your clients even if you are in a business - to - business, rather than a business - to - consumer practice.

However, for many lawyers, running a law practice using a jury - rigged system of unrelated software programs is less than desirable for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the complexity inherent in such a system.

I suppose one might want to distinguish for some of them the lawyer who has a generally accessible online presence (like a web site) and who accepts clients by electronic communications from anywhere, compared to a lawyer who targets a particular jurisdiction other than the one in which he or she is formally admitted to practice.

It's a nice thought, but the problem is that LPP participants won't necessarily be any more interested in serving those practice areas and communities than existing lawyers are.

«The term is occasionally applied to lawyers and then means generally any evil practice in a professional capacity, but rather with reference to the court and its practice and process than to the client.»

«The Blawg Directory: We've indexed more than 1,000 blogs written by lawyers who are experts in their practice areas, with more being added daily.

«During more than 30 years of practice, Mr. McClanahan has built a well - deserved reputation as one of the country's leading courtroom lawyers, regularly representing companies and business executives in a variety of business disputes.

A freelance lawyer enjoys much greater flexibility and control over their law practices than most solo practitioners.

The use of regular old email by lawyers to send confidential information back and forth, while common practice, is really more risky than it ever was.

It is truer today than ever before: we live in a global economy, so whether or not a young lawyer intends to practice international law, there is a strong likelihood that, throughout the course of her career, she will face matters of international significance or, at minimum, cases that require some knowledge of the international legal landscape.

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.

A practice guide is great, and much needed in this area, but I wanted self - represented lawyers to have much more than a book.

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.

As a result, it now provides much more than legal research support for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

The merger will also make Norton Rose Group one of the five largest international legal practices by number of lawyers, with more than 2,900 lawyers in 43 offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

I wonder if the lawyers most likely to see the benefits of this will be the in - house lawyers who may be more aligned to the commercial needs of their firm than those lawyers in private practice.»

This makes sense; his business is based on selling blogs — but it is more time than most practicing lawyers I know have to give).

Today, it's clear that unauthorized practice of law (UPL) regulations are doing lawyers more harm than good.

Other more experienced attorneys could riff on what those reasons are better than I, but to my mind the day - to - day benefits and drawbacks of being a practicing lawyer are far, far more important a set of considerations than what your student debt load and income level will be.

By 1988, LAO LAW was producing legal opinions at a rate of more than 5,000 per year for legal aid lawyers (lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases).

Last year, the Canadian Bar Association released its Futures report, which boldly proposed: «Lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals.Lawyers should be allowed to practise in business structures that permit fee - sharing, multidisciplinary practice, and ownership, management, and investment by persons other than lawyers or other regulated legal professionals.lawyers or other regulated legal professionals.»

The obligation to promote the administration of justice for an in - house lawyer is markedly different than a litigator in private practice.

Super Lawyers also has a rating service, Rising Stars, for lawyers who are under 40 or have practiced less than 10Lawyers also has a rating service, Rising Stars, for lawyers who are under 40 or have practiced less than 10lawyers who are under 40 or have practiced less than 10 years.

There should be more to law school than merely to produce «practice - ready lawyers.»

With the explosion of audio downloads on the Internet (in 2007, Apple's iTunes services sold an average of more than 5 million songs a day), lawyers should be looking carefully at Internet audio as a vehicle to market their practices in 2008.

Proven trial attorneys with more than 45 years of collective practice, our lawyers possess the legal prowess to handle even the most complex personal injury matters.

This lets you know that your website should refer to your practice as divorce lawyers more frequently than matrimony attorneys because more people search for the term lawyer than attorney and divorce than matrimony.

However, traditional dictation has declined as the use of computers has become more prevalent in law firms, and younger lawyers have entered the practice with better typing skills than their predecessors.

Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer - review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of lawyers in their practiceLawyers is based on an exhaustive peer - review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of lawyers in their practicelawyers in their practice areas.

The firm employs approximately 1,200 lawyers from more than 50 countries and diverse backgrounds who are admitted to practice in numerous jurisdictions.

Although your professional plate probably is more than full with the practice of law and business development activities, it's a wise investment of your time to learn to think like a businessperson as well as like a lawyer.

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The way that lawyers organise both themselves and their practice is more than just good habit, it can also help tap into a more conscious innovation strategy, a Sydney barrister has said.

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