Sentences with phrase «suit against the lawyer»

I don't know who his lawyer was, but I can't help suspecting that Plimer proceeded with the suit against his lawyer's advice.

This allegation, not uncommon as an appeal ground in criminal court, may also be cited in a malpractice suit against the lawyer.

According to a survey conducted by the ABA over a period of 20 years, missed deadlines are the # 1 reason for malpractice suits against lawyers.

Not exact matches

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, attended the Monday hearing alongside Michael Avenatti, her lawyer in a pending suit against Trump and Cohen seeking to void her hush deal.

In his statement of defence, O'Leary's lawyer Christopher Madill denies all of the allegations against his client and says the suit should be dismissed.

Matthew Leib, a former New Yorker intern, and Lauren Ballinger, who worked at W Magazine, are represented by the same lawyers in both the Black Swan suit against Fox Entertainment and former interns at Hearst's Harpers» Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.

Also March 20, 2018: New York state Judge Jennifer Schecter rules against Trump's lawyers» motion to dismiss the defamation case by Summer Zervos, citing the Supreme Court's ruling in Clinton v. Jones that presidents are not immune from civil suits.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

Then again I guess Lawyers are EMPTY SUITS who become elected officials If she was a Democ» RAT» and was running against a Republican.All most everyone on this Bog would be singing her «SONG» Before there was the «Oracle of Delphi» there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli

Who wants to spend political capital painstakingly building cases against corrupt pols, thieves in suits with deep pockets represented by fancy high priced lawyers, or violent gangs?

Grandeau's complaint against DiNapoli claims the Democratic comptroller urged Chevron to settle a lawsuit after receiving campaign contributions and offers of trips and meetings with celebrities from lawyers who arranged the suit.

On June 15, Buhari had appealed against a previous ruling of the court dismissing his preliminary objection to the suit filed by Nwokocha - Ahaaiwe, an Abuja based lawyer.

A hearing scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany will be the first courtroom encounter between Paterson — represented by lawyers from the attorney general's office — and four state workers unions that brought suit against the governor's plan to force employees to take a one - day - a-week furlough until the state's budget plan is finalized.

The suit by his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), showed Dokpesi also praying for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants or their agents from further making any defamatory publications against him, and N50million as cost of the action.

Citi News understands that lawyers for the three will file a contempt suit against the BNI this week.

Lawyers from the Central American Refugee Center, a Long Island immigrant legal services organization commonly known as Carecen, and the Hofstra Law Clinic filed suit against Nassau County in state Supreme Court, saying that the county police department was cooperating with ICE in ways that break state law.

Now, the law department needs more money to hire an outside lawyer to defend Antonacci against an upcoming civil rights suit.

Lawyers for Charlotte Osei also demanded the list of workers who were behind the petition «to enable us commence legal action against them for the defamatory statements contained in their petition failing which our client will be constrained to proceed against you alone as defendant in the suit our client intends to commence against them since you are to all intents and purposes, their agent.»

If Obama want to score political points, the democratic party lawyers should be filing suit against Arizona, not the Justic Department.

But Palin's lawyers and those representing the newspaper appeared at Manhattan Federal Court for a hearing in her defamation suit against the media giant.

He said since the commencement of the EFCC investigations, the former first lady had, through the same set of lawyers, filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 586/2017, demanding N2bn against the EFCC for an alleged violation of her right.

In the suit by his lawyer Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Dokpesi is also praying for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants or their agents from further making any defamatory publications against him, and N50million as cost of the action.

A lawyer representing the three Bronx buddies who face up to a year in prison for throwing a snowball at an off - duty cop is filing a false arrest suit against the city.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole fixed May 2 for judgment after lawyers to the respective parties argued for and against the suit on Friday.

Meanwhile, a lawyer, Mr. Okere Nnamdi, who obtained the Thursday's ex parte order directing the Joint Health Sector Union to suspend their one - month long strike, has threatened to file a contempt suit against the officials of the union if by Monday they fail to comply with the 24 - hour ultimatum given to the union by the court to call off the industrial action.

The supporting affidavit to the suit deposed to by one of her lawyers, Sammie Somiari, stated, «The investigation into the operations of her pet project, when she was First Lady, is an unprecedented act of animosity against her as none of her projects was funded by the government at any level.

Antonacci has said in the past that the county executive's office didn't need to hire such an expensive team of lawyers to defend against his suit.

«Yes, America has a legitimate concern about cyber hacking and trade secrets theft,» says Brian Sun, a trial lawyer with Jones Day in Los Angeles, California, who represented Lee in a successful civil suit against the U.S. government.

Galvin's pal, a lawyer named Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden) has drummed up a little work for him: An open - and - shut malpractice suit against a Catholic hospital in Boston where a young woman was carelessly turned into a vegetable because of a medical oversight.

Irate defaulters constitute the largest group of people who have suits pending against ed workers, said Ted Skye, a department lawyer.

You'd also have a difficult time finding someone to defend you against the suit or claim, because you'd have to pay the lawyer several thousand dollars up front.

If a claim is made or a suit is filed against you, the insurance company pays for the lawyer.

In 2016 the American Bar Association filed suit against the Department of Education on behalf of four lawyers.

In other words, they pay for a lawyer to defend you against the subrogation suit if you're the one responsible for the fire.

Defense costs can be staggering, so this benefits both you and the insurer — you're not worried about burning through your policy limits with the cost of a lawyer and the insurer is able to continue to defend against a suit for which they may be responsible even if they spend more than the policy limits to do so.

The insurance company would pay for a lawyer to defend you against that claim or suit.

This is why the Animal Legal Defense Fund was so delighted to have Morgan Hector step aboard as a pro bono lawyer in our foie gras suit against the USDA.

Lewandowsky falsely linked climate skeptics to moon landing hoaxism, and free marketeers to rejection of beliefs they overwhelmingly endorsed, so I guess an enterprising lawyer could think about a class action civil suit for libel (I'm not sure if there's ever been a class action libel action), against the researchers and the journal.

If you're looking for an overview of Dr Michael Mann's suit against National Review over my Corner post, The Columbia Journalism Review's Curtis Brainard does a crackerjack job interviewing spokesmen for one side of the story.Sadly, Dr Mann was too busy playing «hide the delete» * to comment himself, but his Big Oil lawyer did offer this:

«while Irving chose a fool for his lawyer (by representing himself in his spectacularly failed libel suit against historian, Deborah Lipstadt), Mann's lawyers appear have saddled themselves with a fool for a client.»

Finally, if fraud claims against firms become more common, lawyers may need to check with their malpractice insurers to determine whether their coverage includes suits for fraud.

We do have one of the lawyer - plaintiffs in the suit against Avvo, John Henry Browne, as a guest, along with two well - known bloggers, Carolyn Elefant and Denise Howell.

The Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights filed suit against Craigslist, alleging that it had published more than 100 ads in the Chicago area that violated Fair Housing Law.

As The Washington Post reports today, the AAJ has brought in trial lawyers of its own to file suit against the start - up organization that calls itself The American Trial Lawyers Association, or Tlawyers of its own to file suit against the start - up organization that calls itself The American Trial Lawyers Association, or TLawyers Association, or TheATLA.

When the Manhattan DA declined to prosecute the lawyer, she brought a civil suit against him seeking $ 70 million in damages.

In civil suits filed against the judges, lawyers are seeking to recover monetary damages on behalf of the children and their families, alleging that the judges violated their civil rights.

Little did I realize as I wrote that post that some of the lawyers whose home purchases were profiled were so upset that they filed suit against Blockshopper.

Now, tired of playing wait and see, the ABA yesterday filed suit against the FTC in federal district court in the District of Columbia, asking the court to enjoin the FTC from applying the Red Flags Rule to lawyers, reports The National Law Journal and The Am Law Daily.

And Ambrogi has your first case: «Defending Stick Figure in a bias suit for discriminating against older lawyers...»

As reported in Reuters, a group of Chinese lawyers have filed suit against CNN in Beijing, alleging that derogatory remarks by commentator Jack Cafferty violated the dignity and reputation of the Chinese people.