Sentences with phrase «small time lawyer»

Any small time lawyer will be able to draft one for Rs 300 - 500.

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However, I can't see how this little company is going to be hiring big city lawyers to put small time herbalists out of business at their local farmer's market.

Likewise, Albert Finney has one of his better roles in years as the small - time lawyer who hires Brockovich and reluctantly goes to the mat against the giant company.

This film, which surprisingly casts Ryan Reynolds opposite her as her big - hearted small - time lawyer, should be refreshing.

Assigned, along with his legal partner Helen Devaney (Kerry Fox), to defend Stuart (David Ngoombujarra), small - time Adelaide lawyer David O'Sullivan (Robert Carlyle) is convinced of his client's innocence, and accuses the Ceduna police of torture and coercion.

Ultimately, the case goes all the way to the Supreme Court, where our small - time lawyer has to argue his case with some of the country's best legal minds.

Michael Cera gets a whole character arc dedicated to him halfway through as a small - time lawyer, taking on the big shots.

During moments of frustration with the district's intransigence, I would sometimes say to the courageous disability advocate lawyers representing the plaintiffs that I had a tough time figuring out how students and their parents benefited from maintaining the district at its current size, and that breaking it up into smaller units would better serve students» interests.

Scott Turow's compelling, multidimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of police and small - time crooks, airline executives and sophisticated scammers — and lawyers of all stripes.

I was hanging around with well, my Whitney ISP life turned into making Documents, which is a small magazine that I made with a group of friends, Chris Hoover, who was distributing independent film and video, Margaret Sundell, who is now I think at Creative Time in The Drawing Center, Miwon Kwon, who is at UCLA, and Jim Markovitz, who became a lawyer, left the art world.

I know small firms that are staffed with just a few paralegals who are kept fully busy with legal work and have no time left over to help a lawyer with day to day tasks.

For clients that produce a large number of documents with only small variations — such as employment contracts or non-disclosure agreements — providing technology to automate their production can save in - house lawyers a significant amount of time.

Many lawyers feel awkward and uncomfortable chatting with strangers, in large part because they view small talk as a complete waste of time.

But instead of lamenting the loss of a simpler time in legal marketing, let's cut through the BS and talk about what solo and small firm lawyers can actually do to earn links that drive inquiries from potential clients.

If you are a small firm lawyer looking to enhance your understanding of legal technology or improve your legal tech skills, which conferences are worth your time and money?

While only a small percentage of lawyers describe themselves as virtual, nearly three quarters of lawyers say that they telecommute at times.

The inspiration: «I found that a lot of solo and small [firm] lawyers have basically two issues: issues revolving around time and travel on a daily basis,» says Johnston.

Last year Klein spent 90 % of her time on the road meeting with solo and small firm lawyers in order to better understand their challenges,

Small firm and solo lawyers are more likely to use their smartphones for time and billing and expense tracking.

Reduced demand for traditional legal services (typically billed by the hour) also means there is less demand for articling students and a tendency towards over-supply of lawyers (while paradoxically at the same time, many rural and smaller communities don't have enough lawyers).

If, however, you have a qualified criminal lawyer by your side, first - time charges of shoplifting could be either dismissed, or reduced to a lesser infraction charge (similar to a traffic ticket, resulting only in a small fine).

It's hard enough to sustain a print newspaper in any market, but it's even harder to sell a pricey subscription to an audience of solo and small firm lawyers who themselves are facing tighter economic times.

Thank technology, which is getting better and cheaper all the time, for letting savvy lawyers build big - firm presence using small - firm resources.

Not surprisingly, it is women lawyers who are sole practitioners or who work in smaller firms who have the most difficult time maintaining their practice.

Today we announced that we are teaming up with the American Bar Association to explore innovative solutions to a vexing legal paradox — the difficulty small businesses face finding affordable legal services at a time when many lawyers would welcome expanded professional opportunities.

Some of these firms operate as legal outsourcers contracting their lawyers to small businesses that want a lawyer on - site but can not afford a full - time in - house lawyer or to large corporations that have in - house legal departments but need extra assistance from time to time.

Some of these firms operate as legal outsourcers contracting their lawyers to small businesses that want a lawyer on - site but can not afford a full - time in - house lawyer or to large corporations that have in - house legal departments but need extra assistance from time to time... [more]

Dickinson Wright has had a small Toronto presence for some time, with three Canadian - licensed lawyers but the firm wanted to «expand its footprint.»

The effects can already be seen in small communities across the country as lawyers report being overwhelmed with more clients than they can handle while at the same time being unable to recruit new lawyers to their communities.

The current business structure is selling time by the hour in sole and small practice with the financing of the practice by the lawyer out of his or her own resources (or by personal bank borrowings).

But at the same time, that's small potatoes compared with the savings that come from cutting nonequity and senior counsel lawyers.

• In a large firm another lawyer in the group or in another practice group may have litigated the same issue some time in the past, in which case there is that added resource where in the smaller firm that is less likely to happen.

That's all the liaisons, the judges and everybody else and frankly a lot of people just thought I was absolutely crazy but I got a lot of thank you's over time and as we talked about it more, we get a magazine that focused on mindfulness and Jeena Cho, who you know who's now published The Anxious Lawyer, was really getting some traction at the same time and it just kind of ignited and there's been a lot of traction on mindfulness since then and I was glad to be at least a small part of that, introducing the lawyers in this state to mindfulness.

lawyers working full - time in 1 to 5 lawyer firms in large metropolitan areas [see map below, click to enlarge] made an average of $ 112,712 (n = 318), versus $ 117,284 in mid-sized markets (75,000 to 200,000 residents)(n = 104) and $ 117,741 in small and rural locales (n = 84).

With a small investment of time and energy, lawyers who practise alone can mitigate all of these risks by building a support network.

Toronto business lawyer Inga Andriessen has seen a marked increase in clients pursuing collection litigation, which she says is an indication small businesses are having a tough time in today's economy.

Though I'm now capable of writing my own demand letters, I got a lawyer for a small amount at a time when I needed her services.

Although Superior Court judges may sit in the Small Claims Court, the vast majority of cases are, in fact, heard by lawyers who serve as part - time deputy judges.

LH: If a lawyer at a small firm doesn't take the time to know enough to be dangerous in the various aspects of business operations, it will have detrimental effects on the firm's overall growth.

In a very short period of time, I've developed a small following of other lawyers, interested non-lawyers, and a sizeable number of law students who follow the feed.

Because of limited budgets and small public defender wages, free lawyers can't spend much time on any one case.

He added that it's a «phenomenal» time for hungry lawyers to connect to individual consumers or smaller businesses, or the «business - to - consumer space.»

It was an awesome few days with some of the country's most innovating and entrepreneurial small firm lawyers, and we had a really great time, as always, as we were anticipating, with lots of great discussions, and breakouts, and new ideas percolating, and lots of new relationships.

He has a thesis in his new book about how kind of buyers or clients are taking control of the dynamics of the industry and as part of that, I think he and you advocate for lawyers and small law firms, thinking more like businesses and thinking about clients as buyers and things like that, that we'll get into in the episode, but one of the topics that I think is interesting to talk about then is something we've brought up a few times in the past about kind of identifying your ideal client or crafting personas of your ideal clients that you can have a story of who you're looking for and how to find them.

Aaron Street: We spend a lot of time interacting with small firm lawyers all over the country and asking them what some of their biggest challenges are and marketing as a broad category seems to be probably one of the biggest and most recurring themes that lawyers indicate is a problem for them and I think in anticipation of your conversation with Billie today it's probably worth thinking through a little bit about what that means because I'm not sure that all small firm lawyers actually think about the concepts of marketing in a way that will help them solve it.

He started the site, he says, to help with a common problem faced by solo and small - firm lawyers — short - term projects or assignments that do not justify hiring a full - or part - time employee.

I've written a number of times here about the findings of a Thomson Reuters survey, The State of the U.S. Small Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve sucSmall Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve sucsmall firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve success.

These lawyers decide when they have time to contribute, write commentary in smaller «chunks», and can focus exclusively on the narrow facets that they find interesting.

This time, it was the smaller firms that were more likely to be pursing innovation, with 60.7 percent of firms of 50 - 99 lawyers answering yes to this question, while just 18.2 percent of firms of 1,000 or more lawyers answered yes.

The dedicated server can significantly increase implementation costs for the solo and small firm lawyer, but we feel strongly that Time Matters needs a dedicated server for adequate performance of the application.