Sentences with phrase «see some lawyers try»

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He contacted a lawyer to see if it was possible to prevent his employees from leaving for a rival, but instead of spending money on legal costs, he decided to try something else: He gave each of his remaining employees a raise.

«I've had talks with him during which I try to get him to see a different perspective and understand the cost of picking fights, but he doesn't see the world that way,» says Richard Stroup, a patent lawyer who has worked for Antonious since the late»70s.

I'll wait to see what transpires in court before fully condemning Foster, the charges surprised most everyone including Foster's lawyers, hope the DA isn't trying to hang Foster to pad his resume on the coat tails of the Me Too Movement.

In addition Some parents are determine that their sons and daughters are going to be doctors, lawyers, and etc, while the sons or daughters are just a singer and only want to be a singer, therefore a lot of time and moneys are wasted in the goal of the parent, why not say to the child see how it goes for couple years, then if not, he / she tries something else of his / her choosing.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

As she works the phones trying to bend lawyers, bureaucrats, medical personnel and bystanders to her iron will, the movie goes wider and deeper, and we see Cornelia not just as another mother from hell, but as an avatar for Romania's heedless new elites.

We've seen Samantha Jackson in professional lawyer mode, trying to teach Ted and John (Mark Wahlberg) a few things about winning the case, but here she's clearly got no problem taking part in their antics.

Superb performances by Julianne Nicholson and Denis O'Hare as a teacher and immigration lawyer who are trying to help them, and by the three teens — J. Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez - Richmond and Raquel Castro — make the film a compelling and heart - gripping must see.

You often see very educated people — doctors and lawyers and engineers — trying to make presentations, and they have no clue about how to communicate visually and what happens when you put one image after another.

I tried to get a lawyer to fight this for me but since I have to bodily injury they don't see it worth their time.

And of course lawyers never try to pervert the course of justice, weaken the reputation of those that don't «co-operatively» see things their way, or take petty revenge.

If there is a lawyer out there who sees potential in this (and not just in your fee, but is willing to work for the settlement only) that is one thing, but really to me it doesn't look like a good bet to try to insist on what you think the rules are vs what Chase says they are.

I've even posted my situation on Avvo to try and see if any local student loan lawyers would reach out but haven't had any luck in that aspect.

On the flipside, I suspect someone will actually lose it when Nintendo tries to shut down their work and simply tell their lawyers that they'll see them in court.

A 60 - Day Past Due Letter is meant to be used by businesses, banks or individuals collecting their own debts, so if you're trying to collect a debt for someone else, talk to a lawyer to see if you qualify for an exception under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Truthfully, I haven't seen any lawyers who have posted Profile pictures with their pets, but I have seen photos that are obviously selfies (even if they tried to look professional), photos that are taken too far away and photos with distracting backgrounds.

This is not the worst contract I've seen written by a non-lawyer, and I expect to see more people trying failing to create an enforceable contract because they think it will save them the money of hiring a lawyer; I believe the theoretical aspect (not my specific situation, which is more of an example) will be generally useful for employers to be aware of what penalties their company may risk facing later on.

While reading the Simple Justice blog today (it must have been an old post as I know I wrote a fond «Farewell to «Simple Justice» and Scott Greenfield» post back in February 2012 when Simple Justice shut down), I saw two references to young lawyers who tried placing free ads on Craigslist but ultimately rejected this business development tactic as undignified.

If at any point in time your insurance company tries to hike up your rates you should talk to a personal injury lawyer to see if they did this illegally.

Short term contracts are rarely available, which is unfortunate since short term contracts allow lawyers to try the service and see if it's worth it.

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.

unless this case goes to SCC it will be of no value to the rest of canada - a newsreel media story on Ivan Henrysaid «the judge intentionally labelled Henry vexatious so he would not have a chance to appeal to SCC - the SCC automatically reject the vexatious» i am trying to figure out how this is done - in my case the ns attorney general defence lawyer had been on my case for years then one week before i sent in my SCC appeal books she wrote me and said she had moved to the SCC office where my books would be ariving!!!!!!! i reported this to the SCC but my complaint was ignored - so did the NSAG lawyer get ahold of my books and change them so SCC judges never seen my arguements - thats how bad they do nt want SLR's to use the courts!!!!!!

It would have been helpful for the LawPro piece to include some encouragement for the lawyer to try to see the whole matter through the client's eyes rather than focus only on protective measures.

I predict that there will be many lawyers who register (or try to register), see the lack of content, and never come back.

Lawyers will so often stick to the letter and miss the substance... most of them spend their working lives drafting some sort of document or another — trying to see whether it covers this contingency or that.

LawGeex sees its AI software as not trying to replace lawyers, but rather to handle the increasing volume of legally - related matters, such as lower level contract approval, that would otherwise consume much of an inhouse legal team's time.

If you're lucky, there's another person there who has tried it and maybe is even billing flat fees and then you can have maybe a drink with them later and have a productive conversation but that automatic defensiveness that that's not how we do it, it won't work, is one of the most toxic things that I see and it doesn't mean that you have to adopt everything but I feel like a willingness to engage with new ideas or even just other ideas is probably the one biggest most important thing that lawyers can do and learn how to test those ideas, bounce them off of people who will listen and engage with them too.

So not only do we see «shall» used to try to express any of the meanings found in numbers one through five above, (note the vast differences) but many lawyers sprinkle «shall» around in documents like some sort of pixie dust, hoping it will magically make the document seem more «lawyerly,» and therefore less likely to be challenged in terms of its meaning.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Sam Glover: The reason I ask is because one of the traps I fell into, and I see lots of lawyers falling into, is you come up with a really neat tool and you want everybody to use it and you try to force everybody through that tool and not everybody wants to do it that way.

I see no reason why anybody would want to develop one, right and so what I'm trying to say, if you could develop a perfect substitute for a lawyer, you'd have a lawyer.

Most lawyers want to see, if possible, whether parties can stay together, and they're obligated by law to try and encourage that.

But for lawyers who are trying to build profile online through social networks or blogging, a well - stocked feed reader offers a constant stream of interesting, relevant content to blog or write about, or share via social networks or personal emails of the «Saw this and thought of you» variety.

As Heenan Blaikie LLP's senior partners try and figure out what the next move should be for the iconic Canadian firm that has seen large groups of lawyers jumping ship for the last 18 months, the legal community is watching closely as it questions whether it's just another example of what's yet to come for other big firms.

Lawyers don't try to write enjoyably or memorably because they don't see how it matters.

A lawyer blustering about sanctions is probably just trying to intimidate you, and it is usually best to wait and see what kind of lawyer you are dealing with.

How this will affect the learning and working styles of a new generation of lawyers and librarians remains to be seen, but many people already in the work force are trying to get up to speed on these technologies and applications to facilitate the transition.

I have to remind myself when reading what I find on SLAW that this is a forum for lawyers and I need to try to be empathetic, to somehow see the issues from lawyers» point of view.

Meanwhile, the more competitive terms you're trying to rank for, like «[city] personal injury lawyer», you're not seeing the results you want.

I also can see the proposition that lawyers who are not successful market incumbents have a greater incentive to innovate or at least less to lose by trying.

I understand from listening, Gyi, that you just sort of walk around town Googling lawyer's practice areas and things and try to see what pops up.

Kristen Juras, the University of Montana law professor who is trying to shut down a student - written sex column (see here) would do well to read an opinion piece published this week by one of the nation's preeminent First Amendment lawyers, Floyd Abrams.

And ALSO to see if you lawyer thinks you should go after them in the bankruptcy court for trying to collect those attorneys fees.

It sees things that, that lawyer would never have gone to that sentence to try to make it better if WordRake hadn't pointed out there is something going on over here, we need to take a little closer look at.

I see more and more crap coming from plaintiff's personal injury lawyers who are trying their hand at blogs.

If the personal injury lawyer is not prepared to see you on that basis, try the next one.

Even before either of you have hired a lawyer, you should try to have a few long, dispassionate discussions with each other, to see what the key points of contention are going to be.

After Client tried with two lawyers and by himself to persuade the Crown and the Provincial Court to allow him to see his son, he retained Vancouver Criminal Defense Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan to represent him in an appeal to the Supreme Court to change the bail order.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.