Sentences with phrase «rural courthouse»

In some cases you don't need to spend the time or bill your clients for the travel expense of driving half the day to a rural courthouse.

They need local lawyers and they do not want to pay for some lawyer from the city to drive out to the rural courthouse to represent them.

Rural courthouses are not exempt from these travel expenses — trying a case locally can mean paying for the judge's, prosecutor's, and public defender's drive time.

Not exact matches

Peter Steinfels, the New York Times religion reporter, heard Provine speak at a symposium on the Scopes Trial held at Vanderbilt University in 1995 and concluded: «It is easy to look back at the battle between rural piety and city cynicism waged seventy years ago in the Dayton courthouse, and feel superior.

During my drive to the courthouse, I passed a number of working farms in my rural county.

Attorneys who practice in rural areas tend to find themselves sent to the courthouse and meeting with clients as soon as they start.

This is because law clerks, especially in rural areas, often have a dual appointment as a law clerk (basically a lawyer acting as a research assistant for a judge) and as a bailiff who is an officer of the court charged with maintaining order and security in the courthouse, or at least in an individual judge's courtroom.