Sentences with phrase «richest lawyers made»

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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.»

If it goes as far as a divorce trial, it becomes the kind of divorce that makes some lawyers richer than their clients will ever be again.

He repeatedly badgered a real estate lawyer who had major legislative interests sitting on Skelos» desk to «help» his «struggling» (actually filthy - rich) son until the panicked lawyer arranged for a $ 20,000 payoff to be made in the guise of a phony title - referral fee.

«People with no reputation to think about — ambulance — chasing lawyers, get - rich - quick scam artists, sellers of worthless products — will continue to infest the Net unless some concerted effort is made to keep them off.»

Chloe Sevigny and Jay Duplass are rich lawyers who look down in faint recognition of the deal they've made with the Devil to get where they are.

Quietly, without making a fuss, Hanks keeps turning in rich and flawless performances, but his work here, as the lawyer and master negotiator James Donovan, was beyond even his usual exalted standard.

All such insurances and derivative papers achieve are to make the lawyers and traders rich.

What I love most about this article is that none of the contributing lawyers said they loved being lawyers because it made them rich or feel important.

Ms. Rich is a member and a volunteer with a number of different community, legal, and charitable organizations, including the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, the Illinois Judges Foundation Auxiliary Committee, the Make - A-Wish Foundation of Illinois, the Chicago Inn of Court, the Lawyers Club of Chicago, and the ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility.

Family lawyers and the courts are interested in fairness; financial remedy proceedings are not a game to make one party richer than the other.

Because we all want to become better lawyers, make more money, work less, spend more time with our families, and generally retire rich, happy, and healthy, the dawn of every new year is the time we finally decide, «Well, now I'm going to do X, Y and Z to improve»... I'm going to complicate matters by starting a new, limited - run series titled, «Resolutions for Lawyers.lawyers, make more money, work less, spend more time with our families, and generally retire rich, happy, and healthy, the dawn of every new year is the time we finally decide, «Well, now I'm going to do X, Y and Z to improve»... I'm going to complicate matters by starting a new, limited - run series titled, «Resolutions for Lawyers.Lawyers.»

Class action reform is a legitimate issue, not because it is too easy to file class action suits (I don't have much of an opinion on that question), but because the way we handle class action lawsuits typically fails to make victims whole (or even provide any redress of value to them at all) while making the lawyers extremely rich.

The legislation threatened to make lawyers «a resource to be used in the criminal prosecution of their clients», their «offices turned into archives for the use of the prosecution»: Maranda v. Richer, 2003 SCC 67 (at paragraphs 205 and 216).

It is this conflict that breaks the heart, and breaks the will in many cases, and also makes lawyers rich.

Rich Rosa, co-founder and co-owner of Buyers Brokers Only, LLC, discussed a variety of home - buying topics, including using an exclusive buyer agent, how buyer agents get paid, the Greater Boston real estate market, what to consider when making an offer on a home, the importance of retaining an experienced real estate lawyer, why your buyer agent should be acting as a buffer between you and the listing agent and home buyers not getting overly emotional about homes, with The Money Show host Rick Shaffer.