Sentences with phrase «practicing on both sides of the law»

As an experienced criminal lawyer practicing on both sides of the law, he has worked on many high - profile cases involving every branch of criminal justice, including homicide, sexual assault, fraud, and robbery.

Not exact matches

So it is that «growing numbers of people are abandoning religion in practice; on every side they influence literature, the arts, the interpretation of the humanities and of history and civil laws themselves.

A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring practice to get around civil service laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the side of the mayor's office than the auditors.

In addition, the complaint claims Glenwood has a «pattern and / or practice» of failing to comply with the federal law in its design and construction of multifamily dwellings — citing several other apartment buildings built by the company, such as the Brittany on the Upper East Side and the Paramount Tower on East 39th Street, as examples.

But in recent years, as Silver resisted growing calls for tighter ethics laws in the wake of a series of earlier pubic - corruption indictments, the suspicion grew that Silver's hold on power was actually about extracting as many dollars as he could for himself from the legal business he was practicing on the side.

The measure does not change state law and does not, for instance, require disclosure of the clients of a lawmaker with a legal practice on the side.

The excerpts, which present contradictory views on the practice of law enforcement profiling, are printed separately on the front and back of each sheet, much like a newspaper, where an opinion on one side of a page might contradict another on its reverse.

Posts provide commentary on law and religion issues in the news and around the Web, highlight new books in law and religion, and note news around the world of those who find themselves on the wrong side of the law in their nation when they practice their religion or express their religious views.

As a small business owner, I can relate personally to the challenges attorneys face trying to practice law and grow their clientele at the same time, and I am passionate about helping them with the growth side of the equation, so they can focus on doing what they do best.

This blog is all about the tension between technology and innovation on one side and the law and practice of law on the other.

They've almost certainly seen them on TV, but most lawyers will tell you that the practice of law is nothing like its depiction on the other side of the tube.

Not that I don't enjoy practicing law by any means, but that is, if you ask me, I'm much more interested in building successful businesses throughout the course of my life whatever those look like and right now happens to be a law firm working in family law and, like I said, I enjoy it, but at the end of the day, I'd love to not have the revenue generation rely on me so I can do more of that other, but until we see those scales tip, the majority of my work will still be on the client side and the billing side.

Having recently left the practice of law to devote my time exclusively to mediation and arbitration (with some teaching and writing on the side), I was intrigued when my ADR friend and colleague Colm Brannigan posted a link to a recent LinkedIn blog that asks: «Have Lawyers Hijacked the Promise of Mediation?»

Many of my friends who work at big firms do tons of pro bono work on the side, many times in an area of law that they do not normally practice.

When it comes to weighing benefits and risk, we attorneys tend to err on the side of caution and perhaps find it easier to turn a blind eye to the needs of our clients and the public for greater access to justice over the potential discomfort it causes us a business owners to implement changes in the way we operate our law practice.

I can't speak for the legal industry in Toronto, but there are a few of us at Canadian law schools who are working on the education side of the equation, including courses on legal innovation, legal practice management and legal information technology.

Jon Foreman is a Partner and the leader of Harrison Pensa LLP's Plaintiff - side Class Actions Practice Group with an emphasis on securities law, financial services, competition law, consumer law, product law, and pensions among other areas.

CuroStudio's focus will be on products and services that increase access to justice, but that also extends to products that improve the business side of law practice.

ProLaw is a law practice management software designed with an emphasis on running the accounting side of your business.

Aaron Street: Specifically, and this is kind of more on that disruptor side, it used to be the case that if you wanted to be a lawyer who did software, you had to quit your law practice and start a software company.

I think when Legaltech started, certainly technology was sort of a thing off on the side, it wasn't integral to the practice of law, and as you say, now law practice, law business, and technology are all intertwined and it makes a lot of sense to bring them altogether.

This could backfire on either side when certain portions of the language used may be intentionally vague or difficult to parse though for someone who doesn't practice law.

I gave the traditional practice of law a shot, and it wasn't a good fit on either side.

After many years on the «client» side of lawyer hiring, Ken Young and Barbara Mayden came together in 2007 to form Young Mayden, LLC, pooling perspectives and contacts cultivated through their law practices, working with corporate legal departments and long time high level involvement in the American Bar Association and other professional organizations.

His practice areas and experience cover commercial intellectual property advice, IP litigation, advertising law and litigation, advice on drafting and / or negotiation of information technology agreements on seller or buyer side, and advice on the protection and enforcement of trade mark, patent, copyright and industrial designs.

Practice Management Focus on the Delivery of Legal Services: Executive Committees and Managing Partners in mid-size law firms will devote more of their time performing the strategic planning function and managing the substantive and business sides of their law firms in an effort to provide high quality, timely and cost - effective service to clients.

To learn about the areas of law we practice, please visit our practice areas listed on the left - hand side.

Instructing our specialist family law and divorce team means you will have one of the most well respected and largest family practices in London on your side.

The management - side practice advises employers on all aspects of employment and labour law with a wide range of expertise in both unionized and non-unionized settings.

From my understanding of the report, what they mean by that is training in law practice management on one side and business model innovation on the other, but not really «training in innovation» nor «technological innovation».

I believe technology has improved the practice of law for better in a myriad of ways — from DNA testing on the CDL side to substantial reduction in cost of legal research to tools like email and the cloud that have enabled me to improve the quality of service that I provide to my clients.

On a side note, the laws of some states allow advanced practice nurses to work autonomously, and without a collaboration agreement or other arrangement with an overseeing physician.

I began my career as an associate, partner and then equity partner at one of Canada's largest national full - service law firms and practiced on Bay Street until 2010 when I left to co-found a management - side labour and employment law boutique.

Seltzer: At that time, a larger segment of solicitors who practiced real estate law (particularly the residential side of the practice) came to more of a commodity - type approach where the influx of practitioners carried on what I considered to be an «assembly line» form of practice.