Sentences with phrase «teach lawyers about»

He is also regularly invited to teach lawyers about online legal marketing.

There are more than a few areas of legal theory, for example, in which there is excellent writing by people who never went to law school but have other disciplines which make them more than competent to teach lawyers about law.

He concluded that «very few programs offer courses or opportunities that focus on teaching lawyers about commercializing IP or IP law strategies.»

«We should be teaching lawyers about the business of law, process management, how to use data, and how to be entrepreneurial,» Linna told me.

A guy does a little yoga, maybe owns a yoga studio, teaches lawyers about meditation and mindfulness and then

But before I taught anything substantive, I taught lawyers about blogging, technology, and marketing.

Finally, there are retired lawyers who are teaching lawyers about marketing as a way to supplement their income.

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This childbirth method teaches parents about spontaneous, natural, unmedicated childbirth with the husband being the key role as a coach, manager, lawyer or however you want to call him.

Percoco's lawyers have argued that the consultant payments were tied to the downstate energy firm compensating his wife's legitimate work to develop a curriculum and teaching grade school students about energy as part of the firm's public relations effort.

This interpretation may not sit well with lawyers who are taught in law school that anything that is void is void, and nothing can be done about it, and nothing can be based on it.

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We've seen Samantha Jackson in professional lawyer mode, trying to teach Ted and John (Mark Wahlberg) a few things about winning the case, but here she's clearly got no problem taking part in their antics.

He created the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program, which provides free educational materials and marshals a network of bankruptcy judges, lawyers, and trustees to teach high school seniors and college freshmen — a vulnerable demographic — about financial responsibility.

We are also proud that we were able to educate more Californians about the Vergara case through TEACHED interactive screening events, introducing audiences to Students Matter lawyer Joshua Lipschitz, great teachers who explain the policies in question in our short film The Blame Game: Teachers Speak Out, and other courageous leaders like principal Bill Kappenhagen, who became a witness in the case as a result of participating in TEACHED screenings (go Bill!).

In other analyses of national data (Ingersoll & Perda, 2010), we have found that, as one might expect, teaching has more annual turnover than some higher - status professions (such as lawyers, engineers, architects, professors, and pharmacists); about the same turnover as some occupations (such as police officers and corrections officers); and less turnover than some lower - status lines of work (such as child care workers, secretaries, and paralegals).

We partnered with Youth Together, Education Trust - West, SEIU Local 1021, Youth UpRising, Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), and Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights to commission a study about effective teaching policy in Oakland.

In first person, Heivoll tells us about growing up in Finsland, going off to school in Oslo, dropping out when he realized he did not want to be a lawyer, his relationship with his father, and the revelatory moment in Mantua, Italy, when he realized that he needed to write this book about the fires - all of which ultimately boils down to the struggle that led him to accept what an elementary school teach told him: «You are a writer.»

She'd taught my American father and me just enough of the language for us to say «One moment» in Armenian — Meg vayrgean — when people called and started prattling away about needing a ride to the doctor, the lawyer, or the green - card office.

There are no lawyers explaining the difference between commercial and residential units; there are no mortgage brokers on hand to teach attendees about the rules and regulations about investment property financing; there's not even a real estate agent to discuss the intricacies of the local market, never mind details about specific types of housing or ideal neighbourhoods.

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«I wouldn't worry too much about any judge granting prior restraint in this matter unless they're not familiar with precedent or current law,» says Jonathan Kotler, a lawyer with broad experience in media law who teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, in an interview with the ABA Journal.

It is also clear that teaching law students and lawyers about confidentiality under the conduct rules and about legal privilege is difficult and confusing given the current rules.

The for - profit law schools» marketing is all about selling prospective students on how they teach «practical skills» (translation: how to do stuff lawyers actually do).

In his post this week entitled, «What Tibetan Goatherders Can Teach us About Lawyering,» Balasubramani notes that bloggers increasingly «associate two totally random things that have no connection at all, and ask what one can teach the other (or what one can learn from the other).&rTeach us About Lawyering,» Balasubramani notes that bloggers increasingly «associate two totally random things that have no connection at all, and ask what one can teach the other (or what one can learn from the other).&rteach the other (or what one can learn from the other).»

«But at the same time, the article illustrates that the trial lawyers of the sort Overlawyered complains about every day are not revolutionaries; they're just doing what they've been taught in law school.

- Lawyers are taught to encourage potential jurors to grandstand about their beliefs so they can figure out who are «bad apples» that they will deselect from the jury.

Rather, their approach was much more theoretical than practical.60 In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, established «a Professorship of Law and Police» at William and Mary College.61 George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and, not coincidentally, the lawyer under whom Jefferson apprenticed, was appointed.62 The purpose of the course of study Wythe taught was less about producing practicing lawyers than it was educating the statesmen of the New Republic.63 Wythe did attempt to blend in some practical training with his lectures and readings through the use of a moot court and a moot legislature, though there is no indication that Wythe required any writing on the part of the students.64

This is the question that has humbled me too many times as a family lawyer and taught me so much about people in family law.

As a non-equity partner in his firm, Steve had organized and taught numerous training programs for lawyers; chaired the hiring committee for three years; was considered an excellent teacher and mentor; and frequently counseled associates about their careers.

I am seeing IT as a real driver of success in UK law firms of all sizes: enabling compliance, productivity, cost cutting, improved client / internal communication... and all of these tools / skills are not ones that lawyers, what we call barristers and solicitors, are taught or knowledgeable about typically, so non-law associates and outsourced partners, we use http://www.rtwhosting.com, rather than having an in - 0house team as we are only a small / medium sized firm and simply can't keep up with technology otherwise

«Helping Clients Heal: Lessons Lawyers Can Teach Clients About Spiritual Growth», Law Practice Management, Vol.

With an array of legal experience and varied sector backgrounds, from being an M&A lawyer in private practice, to a senior officer at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), our guest talks to Lawyer Monthly about the personal and professional rewards of being an Investment Funds lawyer and teaching this subject at Harvard Law School.

If you go back to, for some of us, whose parents are lawyers, we would hear about back in law school they were taught lawyers don't advertise.

She is also an award - winning photographer who believes that her ability to see a good picture complements her ability to teach lawyers what they need to see about themselves and their businesses.

Lawyers are taught ad nauseam about Rule 1.6 and the duty of confidentiality, but those lessons have to be effectively communicated to legal support staff.

It's not just the industry as a whole that's changing, and we talk about that a lot, but really it's the individual lawyers thinking outside the box, pushing the boundaries of what we've been taught in the traditional model, and just getting out there and delivering legal services in new ways that's really forming what we call this future of law practice.

What's puzzling about the apparent logic of these lawyers is that no business - school - management course would dare teach kicking an assistant's cubicle or publicly humiliating an associate as an effective way to motivate them to do better work.

Lawyers don't get the concept of networking I think the fatal flaw with law school and with most law firms is that they don't take the time to teach and coach their lawyers about what networking is and the right way toLawyers don't get the concept of networking I think the fatal flaw with law school and with most law firms is that they don't take the time to teach and coach their lawyers about what networking is and the right way tolawyers about what networking is and the right way to do it.

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

Earlier this year, the ABA Journal asked 12 prominent lawyers who teach film or are connected to the business to choose what they regard as the best movies ever made about lawyers and the law.

In the law classroom it's all about critical thinking and teaching law students problem solving skills and how to «think like a lawyer.»

A. No, personal injury lawyers teach you about your rights, advise you how much money your claim is worth, and work to ensure that you are legally protected.

The lawyers of Preszler Law will teach you about your rights and handle all reporting steps to ensure that you are properly protected.

Would I care most about their experience as an attorney, experience and results handling similar types of cases, firm's reputation in the legal community, do they teach other lawyers that area of law, other achievements, perhaps writing relevant articles or «the book» in the field of law?

In my twenty years of experience as a lawyer who does estate planning as part of his practice and teaches lawyers, financial planners and paralegals about the topic, I find that the increased litigation costs associated with a do it yourself will (on average) is about ten times as large as the savings associated with doing it yourself.

We put that question to a jury of 12 experts — nine lawyers, two scholars and a TV critic — who write or teach about the nexus of law and pop culture.

And you can teach a lawyer all about social media, but you can't make the lawyer do anything with it.

I have been teaching an upper year class for about 10 years now that focuses students on what «type» of lawyer they want to be — meaning not whether they practice family, or criminal or general litigation but WHO they want to be as a lawyer and what type of service they see themselves as offering to their clients.

Though the PPD was a new program at the time, I was interested in the idea of teaching future lawyers about the practice of law and was excited about its potential.

In passing, we've been talking about the problems in teaching law students to «think like lawyers».