Sentences with phrase «small town law»

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Though beach fires are no longer allowed here (they are in neighboring towns like Nags Head), stationary fireworks that emit only sparks or smoke are permitted by state law and small - time fireworks can be purchased throughout the state.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

Many other segments of the practice were trader strongholds as well: small - town counselors and specialized areas like conveyancing, estate planning, and most aspects of business law.

My sister in law's mother died of cancer, in a very small town a long way from any hospitals of note.

Distance keeps me from going except for twice a year or so, but my brother in law has a small church of around 50 members in a tiny rural town.

A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market - town by «the highly respected cultured public,» by all ballad - mongers, in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market - town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary was a very small market - town — but this thing of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law was far too much.

This soup recipe is very similar to my in - law's who were from a small town in Michoacan.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

When New York state passed «the toughest gun control laws in the nation» on Jan. 15, concern arose in a small upstate New York town built around a gun manufacturing company.

From a bank of computers at a small - town library to mammoth case - law books piled on wooden tables at a university, today's libraries must straddle the analog and digital worlds.

My sister in law came in town and had a small pop up with a box she shipped here.

Two small town women capture a handsome fugitive who breaks into their house trying to escape a snowstorm and the law.

Ren's a big - city high school rebel who relocates to a small town, takes up the right to dance to loud, groovin» music as his cause (laws on the books forbid it), and eventually wins over everyone from the town preacher's trouble - making daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), to the reverend himself (Dennis Quaid).

The new Footloose, it turns out, is not all that different — in plot, characters and themes — from the original, which was a box - office hit and made a star of Kevin Bacon, playing a spirited city teenager who moves to a small town where dancing is banned and who endeavours to overturn the law so he and his classmates can hold a proper senior prom.

She abides by the law, doesn't use any defamatory language and, as intended, delivers a provocative message which cuts straight to the heart of the small town of Ebbing, Missouri.

The local judge (Graf, The Brady Bunch Movie) in the small town is so fed up with seeing her face, and the fact that she has had four children already (all of which had to be given up for adoption due to their mother's behavior), that when he discovers she is pregnant again decides to make law history and have her put in prison for endangering the life of her fetus, making it clear he would be a bit more lenient with her if she were to have it aborted.

Lucille lives with her overbearing mother in law and her life takes a further turn for the worse as Parisian refugees spill into her small town with German soldiers hot on their heels.

«I suggest you move to a small town that still embraces the rule of law,» a character says near the end of the film.

Oscar winner Julia Roberts as a sassy, low - level law - office worker who becomes obsessed with a case involving a California utility company that's accused of polluting the drinking water in a small town.

Jimmy Stewart is Ransom Stoddard, the future senator, and freshly graduated law student bent on opening a small practice in the fairly lawless town of Shinbone.

Whereas Grisham's southern potboilers are driven by plot, suspense, and applications of the law, The Judge, an original screenplay attributed to director David Dobkin, Gran Torino's Nick Schenk, and newcomer Bill Dubuque, substitutes small - town sentimentality for those elements.

Sam Rockwell stars as Doug Varney, a small town pharmacist with an overbearing wife (Michelle Monaghan) and an uneventful life running the drugstore he bought from his insufferable father - in - law.

Picard flees Paris and heads for a small town, only to be snatched by Bonet, one of France's top cops — a man so familiar with Picard's antics that he manages to out - guess his maneuvers to escape the law in a small town.

THE JUDGE has high - minded goals beyond making itself Oscar ™ - bait, but issues of justice, rule of law, and the simple joys of small - town life don't stand a chance against writing that relentlessly panders to Academy ™ voters, particularly when they run smack up against a courtroom scene that is deliberately staged to look like something out of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a film we are put in mind of when Hank mentions Atticus Finch.

Stallone plays Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a small and seemingly peaceful town until he uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents and is forced to make a dangerous choice between protecting his friends and upholding the law.

Tensions flare in the small town for other reasons too — flagrant disregard for laws that attempt to govern the growing industrial community, longtime personal disagreements, and, always, the struggle for money, whether begotten legally or illegally.

Often mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, the senator from Massachusetts outlines her rise from small - town Oklahoma to Harvard Law and the halls of Congress in this revealing memoir.

First of all, almost all cities and even small towns have leash laws.

Town & Country is a small community of about 10,000 residents in Suburban St. Louis and is a very upscale community with an average HHI of about $ 135,000 — and has joined the rank of progressive communities that are repealing their laws targeting specific breeds.

i live in a small town in TN and they passed this law last year.

Maybe you can finally fulfill that boyhood dream of yours to rob a bank in the Old West, or stage a revolution in a small Western town to bring down the law.

This is especially handy for small - town attorneys who see cases that run the gamut from DUI arrests to personal injury to family law.

Our conversation turned to operating a law firm in a small town and the lawyer told me two things I probably knew but did not really appreciate.

«Small - Town Lawyer Intimidated by Big City Main Law Firms and Pay - to - Play Marketing: Are the Costs Worth It?»

Having a weak or non-existent internet presence is like moving your law office out of a prime commercial office building in a major city and into an unmarked house on the outskirts of a small town.

Even attorneys and law firms in small towns need smart marketing.

The Waterloo, Iowa case demonstrates that smaller towns are not immune from the impact of the Stark Law and False Claims Act.

When you want a lawyer with big law firm experience and small - town values, think Kevin Chrisanthopoulos in Westfield

Small - town practices generally require lawyers to offer a broad range of services, including criminal defense, family law, wills and estates, and business transactions.

As Josh Segal learns in Trial & Error, practicing law in a small town or rural area offers challenges as well as opportunities.

Attorneys at The Donahey Law Firm provide the attentive service you expect from a small - town lawyer, but our Columbus personal injury lawyers have the success and resources of a big - city law fiLaw Firm provide the attentive service you expect from a small - town lawyer, but our Columbus personal injury lawyers have the success and resources of a big - city law filaw firm.

Founded in 1972 by Robert Martin and Bruce Hillyer as a «small town» law firm in Downtown Burlington, Martin & Hillyer has grown over the decades alongside the community it serves.

Already, as Simon has pointed out, the type of legal work most commonly found in small towns simply doesn't pay enough to justify law society fees, professional insurance and practice overhead (or at least, to supply the type of income most lawyers still consider commensurate with their professional standing).

As he travels to meet with County Law Associations he's learned in community after community that Ontario's small town lawyers are an aging breed whose ranks aren't being replenished by new graduates.

As he travels to meet with County Law Associations he's learned in community after community that Ontario's small town lawyers are an aging breed whose ranks... [more]

Crime & Federalism guest - blogger Maren Chaloupka takes serious issue with a story in The National Law Journal, «Small Town Trial Blues: When suits take lawyers to small towns, it can — but needn't — lead to big trouble.&rSmall Town Trial Blues: When suits take lawyers to small towns, it can — but needn't — lead to big trouble.&rsmall towns, it can — but needn't — lead to big trouble.»

And the law schools haven't been focussing on small town generalists.

«Supreme Court Upholds Federal Law Banning «Partial Birth» Abortions Main Small - Town Lawyer Intimidated by Big City»

From small - town solo attorneys to large international firms, FindLaw, along with our sister company Westlaw, has a long history of helping law firms attain success.

As we go out of the population centers and into the smaller towns and rural areas, law firms tend to have more specific needs, and an in - depth understanding of the local market dynamics is essential.