Sentences with phrase «taken by lawyers»

The reality is without the leadership and the significant risks taken by lawyers across the country these issues would not have seen the light of day,» says Shapiro.

These cases are often taken by lawyers working for free, and by legal aid attorneys in agencies partially funded with taxpayer money.

An overwhelming majority of individuals and small businesses can not afford the traditional «brute force» and blank check approach taken by lawyers.

These claims are sometimes complicated by steps taken by lawyers who take certain dangerous DIY steps in the name of claim «self - repair».

Skepticism is likely behind some of the more cautious approaches taken by lawyers when it comes to business innovation.

By far, the most common «security precaution» taken by lawyers who send privileged emails is to insert a confidentiality statement in the email.

[76] While, depending on the facts, a court might not uphold a claim to privilege in respect of the minutes of a business meeting simply because the minutes were taken by a lawyer who was present and subsequently sent them to the client, that would be because the court would have taken the view that the lawyer was not being asked qua lawyer to provide legal advice.

One of the big reasons is that they are afraid they will get taken by the lawyer.

Brandon Moon is an example of an unsuccessful pro se litigant who became successful when his case was taken by a lawyer.

Not exact matches

Former employees contend Willms was burned by the software lawsuits and took care to comply with the law, which is why he retained several lawyers to review the company's materials.

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

The filing goes on to say that on December 2, Brown's lawyers stated that unless Snapchat took legal action to protect its confidentiality agreements, Brown would continue to «assert a unilateral right to publicly disclose, without any notice or meet and confer, literally every scrap of confidential information designated by Snapchat.»

A lawyer by training, he's held various roles at the company including one in operations before taking on his current position six months ago.

A letter obtained by the Canadian Press from a lawyer representing the Great White North Franchise Association to Tim Hortons parent company Restaurant Brands Inc. said if RBI refuses to meet with franchisees by Friday to discuss «deficient IT practices» and «future IT protocols» they will take the matter to court.

The merger, which is expected to close by the end of 2016, is the first stage in a complicated reorganization that will take years to complete, and will surely produce a lot of fees for investment bankers and lawyers.

Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?

Earlier this year, the government took aim at tax deferral opportunities afforded to certain professionals, including lawyers, by proposing to eliminate billed - basis accounting.

Cobb had told White House Chief of Staff John Kelly several weeks ago that he was interested in stepping back from his role as the lead lawyer within the White House handling requests from Mueller, but the timing of his replacement took some by surprise.

Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter Nickolas Cruz, is being harassed by law enforcement — accused of terrorizing the community, arrested for a trivial infraction, held in jail after posting bond, and all but forced to take a conviction to avoid being unfairly jailed, according to his new lawyers.

When Tesla collapses, I hope analysts like Morgan Stanley's Andrew Jonas are taken to court by class - action hungry lawyers.

The whistleblower who exposed Russia's systematic doping of Olympic athletes has been warned by U.S. officials that Russian agents may be inside the United States looking for him and that new security measures needed to be taken to insure his safety, the lawyer for the whistleblower tells Yahoo News.

On the other hand, back in April, after reading that same language, Allergan's lawyers said that Pershing and Valeant «took express pains to sidestep Rule 14e - 3 which outlaws insider - trading in connection with a tender offer, by styling themselves as co-bidders and not (yet) proceeding towards a tender offer.»

President Donald Trump's former New York doctor says Trump's lawyer and private head of security «raided» his office and took the medical files relating to Trump, an act described by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as «standard operating procedure.»

One of the most important pieces of advice we give clients at my office is to take responsibility for your own immigration case, even when you have hired representation by a lawyer or immigration consultant.

The man's lawyers say this could be the first time under U.S. President Donald Trump that a person covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has been taken into immigration custody.

Ibrahim's lawyers have received threats since taking on the case and have been issued with travel bans by Sudan's legal regulatory board, the Lawyers Admissions Comlawyers have received threats since taking on the case and have been issued with travel bans by Sudan's legal regulatory board, the Lawyers Admissions ComLawyers Admissions Committee.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Before the divorce dynamic takes over and establishes a life of its own, a lawyer can create a needed pause just by playing devil's advocate — a role to which lawyers should be accustomed.

It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

Again, it is recorded that on one occasion a group of lawyers brought before him a woman detected in adultery, with the hope that he would take the responsibility of pronouncing the ferocious sentence laid down in the Law of Moses (not enforced at that period), or alternatively, would by refusing to do so expose himself as one who condoned immorality.

Media: [see case page for more] John Durie, «Tabcorp decision to switch regulators mid-race is being led by lawyers» (The Australian, 13 March 2017), James Thomson and John Stenshold, «Tabcorp takes Tatts Group merger case straight to Competition Tribunal» (Australian Financial Review, 13 March 2017) and AAP, «Tabcorp takes Tatts bid to tribunal» (SBS, 13 March 2017).

The Franchise Council Of Australia has been taken over by consultants and lawyers, doesn't represent franchisees, and is in denial about problems in the sector, says Brumby's Bakery founder Michael Sherlock.

[2] Boston Red Sox outfielder Mo Vaughn's reason, stated by his lawyer, for failing eight sobriety tests (when asked to recite the alphabet, he couldn't get past P) and refusing to take a Breathalyzer during an arrest for drunken driving.

Arsenal has many fans from different walks of life, lawyers, accountants, even financiers and the average joe with lots of brilliant ideas, our spend on club merchandise, on tickets and so on does not have to go through the pockets of some greedy individuals who only pay us back with misery over and over again, let's borrow a leaf from Real Madrid and Barcelona by making use of new technologies to come together and take charge of our club even if remotely, this mini revolution begins now, it begins with YOU!

Spanish outlet AS claim the Brazilian star was advised by his lawyers to take the extreme action in order to force their hand

But if the book has any heroes, they are lawyers: Louis XVI's and Saddam Hussein's defence counsel, endangering themselves by taking their cases, and Rabhabinod Pal, the Indian judge whose dissenting Tokyo judgment has heavily influenced Laughland's own views.

«The Democrats must really be struggling when the two candidates for this seat are lawyer - lobbyist Andrew Falk, who took $ 770,000 from Sheldon Silver during his three failed campaigns, and Councilwoman Debbie Carter - Costello, who raised taxes twice and increased spending by more than twice that amount in her first five minutes on the job.

Daniels popped up in the «Saturday Night Live» studio as herself to take a call from Alec Baldwin's Trump and his personal lawyer, Cohen, portrayed by Ben Stiller.

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 lawyers insisted «extensive searches» had taken place before adding: «No documents exist recording any work completed by Mr Mulcaire, monitoring of Mr Mulcaire's return of work, reporting structures or any persons for whom Mr Mulcaire provided information.»

«As a lawyer, lawmaker and activist, Eric has never wavered in his commitment to protecting consumers, working for quality jobs and taking on tough fights on behalf of the women and men of New York,» Ward continued in a statement released by Schneiderman's campaign.

Mayor Giuliani yesterday insisted that Police Commissioner Howard Safir is here to stay — while city lawyers began probing whether the top cop broke ethics rules by taking an Oscars...

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Assemblywoman Amy Paulin took the stand Tuesday as the prosecution's first witness in the corruption trial of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, where her description of Albany's inner workings was pointedly contested by Silver's defense lawyer, Steven Molo, in a series of heated exchanges.

Mr. Stevenson's lawyer, Muhammad Ibn Bashir, in his opening statement portrayed his client as someone who had been taken advantage of by a corrupt political operative who was out to save himself.

You spend years as a Naval Officer, tough Federal Prosecutor, and as a lawyer who took on Wall Street on behalf of thousands of defrauded investors, holding company officers accountable by making them pay out of their own pockets.

Hein, accompanied by a battery of lawyers, convened a Friday - afternoon press conference where, as usual, he took charge of events.

«This write in candidate who claims to be running on campaign finance reform took close to half of his contributions from lawyers and was the only candidate not considered qualified by the New York Bar Association in the race he lost for DA last month in Brooklyn, where he lives,» the campaign said.

First lady Melania Trump was reportedly «blindsided» by reports that her husband's personal lawyer arranged a hush - money payment to an adult film star over an alleged affair that took place the year after her marriage to Trump.

The fact that they needed clearance by a lawyer indicates that there is at least some legislation on surrendering and having to take the surrenderers (surrenderees?)