Sentences with phrase «practicing lawyers took»

There were over 300 practicing lawyers took part in the training course.

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A letter obtained by the Canadian Press from a lawyer representing the Great White North Franchise Association to Tim Hortons parent company Restaurant Brands Inc. said if RBI refuses to meet with franchisees by Friday to discuss «deficient IT practices» and «future IT protocols» they will take the matter to court.

In C. P. Snow's novel Time of Hope, a man named Martineau, owner of a firm of lawyers, gives his practice to his partner and takes to the road as a poor itinerant preacher.

Incidentally, these are the same lawyers and social commentators who, before the Anas exposé, insulted; made formal disciplinary complaints against; and without a hearing, illegally banned myself and others from practicing in the courts of law - all for daring to say that «no one can convince me that there is no corruption in the judiciary or that some judges do not take bribes».

Cuomo said that in the early 1960s, not long after he started to practice law, he took over the representation of an association of about 15 junkyard dealers after the group's previous lawyer, Michael Castaldi, became a judge.

Nothing that requires us to work in public service forever — if you're a lawyer you can take a break from private practice, do public service and go back to your firm.

In the United Kingdom, patent attorneys have the same rights as lawyers do to practice patent law in specialized U.K. courts, and they may take an extra qualification to become patent attorney litigators and also conduct litigation in the U.K. High Court.

The reasoning is all very common sense and practical, says a lawyer specializing in family law, who took time out of his practice to talk to CBS Philadelphia about why Januarys a good month for him.

The film stars Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty, a lawyer desperate to save his floundering law practice who takes a chance on a questionable act of malfeasance that, naturally, causes all sorts of complications.

Different ethical matters take center stage at different times in this cycle, and this presentation will examine a few of those issues, starting with issues of competence and zealous representation as a young lawyer, through the concerns with marketing and advertising as one's practice develops, and ending with some of the common issues relating to closing down a practice.

Leaders who leave the school — like doctors or lawyers who leave their practices for a rival firm — will take many of their contacts and relationships with them; the new leader will have to reassemble the network of relationships that the school needs to be successful.

Even when my father was a practicing lawyer, before the move to government service, he was constantly leaving meetings with clients to take calls from his Claire.

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.

An attorney need not even take a single class in bankruptcy law to become a practicing lawyer.

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.

We focus exclusively on attorney marketing, and we know what it takes to make lawyers and legal practices successful online.

As a young lawyer, it can be easy to get pigeonholed into one practice area within the firm, and if that isn't satisfying your appetite for international experience, take matters into your own hands.

Susan Cartier Liebel anticipates that more lawyers will open their own practice to take advantage of opportunities that the downturn offers.

What the present controversy over ghostblogging really means is that lawyers» pernicious practice of taking credit for the work of others has now spread beyond the confines of the firm and the courtroom, and the results are circulating across the internet and throughout the entire legal marketplace.

I have noticed that many lawyers who make innovative use of technology in their practices take advantage of program features not commonly used by others.

Those same students should be focusing on taking time at home (even when law school is a temporary home) to meet practicing lawyers and judges.

It does seem reasonable, however, to suggest that lawyers are now facing a practice and regulatory environment in which their value or «value - added» is not taken for granted, as it largely has been in years past.

Knowledge is power, and the more a lawyer or law firm understands about what it takes to separate their practice from the rest, the more likely they are to achieve optimal results.

In comments on the story over at WSJ Law Blog, a few participants call for the American Bar Association to take a more protectionist approach and prohibit firms from off - shoring work, while others decry use of Indian lawyers as «unauthorized practice of law» since decisions about whether documents are privileged requires legal judgment.

Law firm marketing is all we do, and we know what it takes to help lawyers and legal practices of all types and sizes become more successful online.

That may be true when it comes to advising clients or practicing law, but for charity, one group of lawyers across the pond was willing to take a chance.

In the world of solo and small law firms, «threshold law» describes the type of practice where a lawyer takes every case that comes across the threshold.

According to this story, five lawyers from the family law practice at U.K. firm B P Collins took to the skies to make a tandem skydive for charity.

Take away Clio staff and vendors from the 700 attendees, and you are left with about 600, I'd estimate, who are practicing lawyers.

While the fate of cloud client data may not be as much of a concern for lawyers who work in firms where someone else can take over, no matter what size firm you practice in, you probably have both personal and professional information online that you may or may not want others to have access to.

Lastly, my personal take is that a law firm's brand can be broken into four streams — firm, regional, practice groups, and individual lawyers.

At Lawyerist LabCon you will focus on building the future of your practice with lawyers who will push you to engage with ideas outside your comfort zone and form goals you can take home.

In this case, the change taking place is the reshuffling under way in large law firms «as they move lawyers out of faltering practice areas into those that are less vulnerable — or even thriving — during the economic slump.»

Lawyers often take on additional work beyond the boundaries of their practices.

I come across these lawyers all the time in my business — they're often brilliant and would sit comfortably in many of the «best» lists and tiered rankings — but they practice at firms who don't do much marketing (or marketing to directories), or they market by just «doing» — by being as good as they can be, and letting the rest take care of itself.

Lawyers who specialize in appellate practice generally recommend taking a few days off before even communicating the loss to the client, much less deciding what to do next.

Like the three reports discussed above, and, in fact, drawing heavily on those reports, the curricular change literature generally takes the position that the case - dialogue method of pedagogy does not sufficiently prepare law students to become practicing lawyers.74 While students learn basic case analysis skills through this method, they are usually not explicitly taught how to integrate those skills into a larger set of lawyering skills, in particular those identified as fundamental in the MacCrate Report.75 Further, while reading and analyzing cases, the focus of most law school classes, are important lawyering skills, they represent only a small portion of what lawyers actually do.76 Consequently, these commentators advocate for teaching legal skills as they are used in their real - world context, not merely as abstract ideas, and for integrating theoretical analysis and practical skills.77

Furthermore, if your lawyer includes a practice of taking money from clients without having done any significant work, individuals clients are now able to make their complaints openly known effortlessly.

But a year ago, AI - related conversations were laden with concerns about robot lawyers taking our jobs and the demise of traditional legal practice.

I heard from attending and speaking at events like Legaltech Week that lawyers were tired of the hype behind AI and wanted concrete examples of AI in practice — which was a challenge I'll admit I gladly encouraged our engineers to take on!

Fact: When lawyers leave private practice (e.g., to retire, go in - house, move to another jurisdiction or take a temporary leave to focus on family) they usually qualify for exemption from payment of the program premiums.

Of course a bit of that goes on, but not by GREAT lawyers, not by lawyers who love the law, not by lawyers who see the LegalZOOMS of the world trying to take over and prefer to ignore that the more time in the practice the more valuable you are.

As a personal injury lawyer, she has taken a special interest in the elderly since the earliest stages of her practice.

In other words, reviews are great for your online reputation, but they're also a big part of the online conversation you have with your clients — smart lawyers take feedback from reviews and adjust their practices accordingly.

Most lawyers have studied for a minimum of 7 years in accredited institutions (undergraduate degree plus law degree) before they can take the tough bar exam, that they must clear to practice law.

He will take over that role from Maureen Mahoney, who has headed Latham's 70 - lawyer appellate practice for two decades.

The inconvenience of taking notes while talking to clients from a cell phone while walking, driving, or waiting for some other appointment to begin may have led many busy lawyers to get out of the practice of taking notes.

But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.

Each of these recent programs is an example of small but important steps taken to support women lawyers to remain in the practice of law.

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.