Sentences with phrase «small town lawyers»

I'm as much a fan of the inspirational, against - all - odds tales of victory by small town lawyers as anyone.

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]

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.

But it's the cocky swagger of McConaughey — playing a small town lawyer with the ego of a big city prosecutor — that provides the counterweight to the idea that the confessed murderer should be let go.

James Stewart stars as a small town lawyer acting as defense attorney for Ben Gazzara, accused of killing the man who supposedly raped his wife, Lee Remick.

However, fees may vary between a San Jose Lawyer and a small town lawyer and may also reflect other work performed by the lawyer that is outside a typical transaction.

Welcome to modern life as a small town lawyer.

The son of a small town lawyer and a college professor, Steven watched his parents devote their careers to improving the community they called home.

A Rural Lawyer tip of the hat to small town lawyer Sharon Edenfield for bringing this idea to fruition.

From Lemons to Lemonade (which I didn't purchase, by the way — this was a free review copy) starts by talking in detail about the «untapped legal job market,» which includes things such as JD - preferred jobs, «hidden» jobs that aren't necessarily advertised but can be uncovered with some due diligence, and less commonly considered options, including small town lawyering and teaching outside of law schools.

Not exact matches

Legal ethicists Thomas and Mary Shaffer, however, have convincingly demonstrated that two quite different ethical systems were operating side - by - side in the profession: an «old WASP» or «gentlemen's» ethic among small - town and establishment lawyers, and an «old world» ethic among lawyers from communities formed by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Eastern Europe.

They were school principals, merchants, small - town lawyers and doctor, athletic coaches, car dealers, insurance agents, and so on.

But Deer's investigation - nominated in February 2011 for two British Press Awards - discovered that, while Wakefield held himself out to be a dispassionate scientist, two years before the Lancet paper was published - and before any of the 12 children were even referred to the hospital - he had been hired to attack MMR by a lawyer, Richard Barr: a jobbing solicitor in the small eastern English town of King's Lynn, who hoped to raise a speculative class action lawsuit against drug companies which manufactured the triple shot.

A case could be made for Gregory Peck in «To Kill a Mockingbird» or Marlon Brando in «The Godfather,» but they had other pressing obligations — one as a small - town lawyer taking a stand against racism and the other a mob kingpin whose idea of family goes beyond mere blood relatives.

He wants all the lawyers and union reps, not to mention the people telling him to keep mum lest their small town's main soure of employment has to shut down, to lay off his jock.

Mike's ambition is merely to make enough to support his family, but he can no longer do that as an honest, small - town lawyer.

Hank Palmer (Downey Jr) is a hotshot Chicago lawyer, quick with his wit and tongue and undergoing a messy divorce when he receives a message that his mother has died and so returns to the small town in Indiana where he grew up.

Premise: A lawyer struggles to save his estranged father, a small - town judge, who has been charged with murder.

Hank, unable to leave his unappreciative father in the inept care of the small town defense lawyer C.P. Kennedy (Dax Shepard), stays on to defend Judge Palmer.

The woman is Laura Wells (Laura Dern), a lawyer in a small town practice, who turns up at work after her lunchtime assignation — flustered, jumper awkwardly tucked into her skirt — to find that she's still being sought by a persistent client, Fuller (Jared Harris).

Paring Maile Meloy's 11 - story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It down to a trilogy, Certain Women tells the sequential tales of Dern's Laura, a small - town lawyer called in to help defuse a hostage situation involving one of her clients (Harris); Michelle Williams's Gina, who's building a house with husband Ryan (James Le Gros); and Lily Gladstone's Jamie, a young rancher in unrequited love with night - school teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart).

Despite his protestations of innocence, his small town has mostly shunned him, aside from the we - love - you - anyway support of his parents (James Remar and Kathleen Quinlan), brother Terry (Joe Anderson), and best friend and lawyer Lee (Max Minghella).

In what is arguably the best role of his career, Stewart plays a small - town Michigan lawyer defending an army lieutenant (Gazzara) accused of murdering a tavern owner, who he believes raped his wife (Remick).

I challenge students to relate it to the character of Atticus Finch, the small - town lawyer living in fictional Maycomb, Alabama.

One of the three lawyers representing 36 rural school districts and several individuals that sued the state in 1993, Mr. Morrison and his colleagues have spent the past 16 months arguing in this small - town...

There isn't a requirement to have 100 engineers in each of the worst inner - city neighborhoods, or 50 lawyers in each small Appalachian town.

A former Congressional lawyer, Jourdan started writing after her mother's heart attack brought her home and she ended up helping out in her dad's small - town medical practice.

Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small - town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship.

He's a small town Alabama boy, now a hard luck Atlanta lawyer, who falls hard for a glamorous opera singer.

He's gay in a small town, house - on - the - brink - of - foreclosure poor and the illegitimate son of a sociopathic lawyer hellbent on his demise.

But so many of them were leaning on canes or sitting in wheelchairs that you might have thought Henry Bonwiller had been a small - town slip - and - fall lawyer and not a man who, if certain chips of fate had fallen certain other ways, might once have been president of the United States.

Lisa Goodmurphy is a lawyer turned family travel writer who grew up in small town Northern Ontario and now resides in the Toronto area.

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a small - town lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape, in a scene from the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the novel by Harper Lee.

Over the last 60 years my small rural town of 4000 people (largest in the county) has seen the trees removed, half the lawns have been converted to parking lots for the homes that have been converted to doctors and lawyers offices, traffic has increased 10 fold, etc..

I met with a lawyer a couple of weeks ago in a small town about two hours outside of the Twin Cities.

But rural lawyers love to tell you how nice it is to raise children in a small town, where they can ride their bikes to every friend's house and you know the parents of all of their playmates.

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.

Michelle and I recently had the opportunity to speak with a lawyer in a small town in my home state of Illinois.

In small towns, many lawyers are generalists.

Norm Pattis of the Crime & Federalism blog is a small - town lawyer, but he was visiting Georgetown this week for a seminar on 1983 litigation.

Small town and rural lawyers don't have access to such services, and especially not sole practitioners.

Elsewhere, The AP reported that lawyers conducted two small peaceful protests in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta town of Toukh, north of Cairo.

And also they will be submitting a tool kit that will contain things like retainer letters and checklists and those kinds of things that are very practical that lawyers from small - town Manitoba all the way up to a lawyer in the largest national firm in the country can go through and know what to do and how to handle certain conflict situations.

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

Especially if you don't already know a ton of lawyers, do not live in a small town or a suburb.

A small minority reports reading blogs; but actually creating a blog is something the geeky lawyer down the hall — or, more likely, across town — is into.

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

Swan says he likes the small town life and wants a taste of what it means to be a rural lawyer, although he's keeping his options open.

Unless you're a small - town general practitioner, gone are the days when everyone knows you and people come to you for legal help because you're one of the only lawyers in town.

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 firm.