Sentences with phrase «than an attorney go»

The crisis worker can arrange to have someone other than an attorney go with you to court, and they can tell you about services available in your area.

Not exact matches

In other words, if you ever have a legal problem, a letter from a prestigious firm is going to be more intimidating than one from a local attorney who works out of his or her home.

It has been going on in cities and states across the country for more than 200 years, but to park district attorney Michael Hennessy it «s

This would keep the adoption agency / facilitator / attorney focused on the child and on its own ethics (such as finding a home for a child instead of finding a child for a home) rather than making sure an adoption goes through.

The Attorney General's proposed legislative changes go further than any package previously proposed by a statewide elected official or legislative leader.

Even so, the attorney said the phrase «make this go away» could just as likely be interpreted as direction to make amends with Cater, rather than conspiracy to deprive someone's rights, as the plaintiff alleges.

According to documents displayed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office during Curcio's testimony, the younger Skelos set his own hours, going into work two days a week for a few hours, less than what his agreement with PRI stipulated.

The raises, which averaged more than $ 8,000 or 11 percent, went to employees including 18 law assistants who each received salary hikes of $ 7,000 after passing the bar exam and being promoted to assistant district attorney.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- Less than three months ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman went before the news cameras to announce a lawsuit accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his former studio of abusing and intimidating a multitude of women.

Still, as evinced by the Make Your Own Web Ad contest, his campaign messaging online and off has focused on attacking the Democratic nominee — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, rather than going after self - funded conservative Carl Paladino, a dark horse GOP primary hopeful who's gained prominence in the polls.

ALBANY — With less than a month to go before the Democratic primary, District Attorney David Soares has $ 2,000 more in campaign funds than challenger Lee Kindlon — the incumbent's first lead in the race.

NEW YORK >> Less than three months ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman went before the news cameras to announce a lawsuit accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his former studio of abusing and intimidating a multitude of women.

«In the last three years Attorney General Schneiderman has gone after more than 40 politicians, government employees and nonprofit officials who abused the public trust,» he said in an email.

MANHATTAN — With less than a month to go before the Democratic primary, Attorney General candidate Kathleen Rice is continuing to pound her competitors in the race to raise funds.

Whatever his positions on the issues compared to Obama, the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee must be (ever so slightly) better than out - going Deval Patrick, and significantly more so than Attorney General Martha Coakley.

(Remember: He said he was planning a wide - ranging plan that goes further in dealing with independent expenditure donor disclosure than what state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is proposing).

And although he trailed in fund - raising by a wide margin, according to recent state Board of Elections records — $ 17,185 compared with more than $ 70,000 raised by City Council attorney Deirdre Feerick and Queens Library External Affairs Director Jimmy Van Bramer — Maragos said he has made an impact with District 26 voters by going door - to - door.

«Ultimately, [the U.S. Attorney's office] is going to be far more interested in that than in a fight between the Times and the governor over whether or not it was really independent.»

Less than three months ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman went before the news cameras to announce a lawsuit accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his former studio of abusing and intimidating a multitude of women.

Today, however, I have to go to juvenile court and maybe because the courtrooms are much smaller and more intimate, or maybe because most of the attorneys are younger / newer, there's less evidence of «style» there than in regular criminal court, and I'm more wary of even mixing and matching suit separates.

The trial and subsequent proceedings have not gone well for the tech giant, with Apple's attorneys openly stating that this amounts to nothing more than a witch hunt and that the judge presiding over the suits has agenda against Apple.

Which is why, when we're thanking all the legal services attorneys we get to work with, I'm going to tell you a few stories, rather than simply list the...

If a consumer went direct to an attorney, hourly fees would end up costing a consumer more money than what it would cost them on our program.

Nathalie Martin: To file, you should go see a bankrutpcy attorney, perhaps interviewing more than one to make sure you make the right choice.

Despite all that, Charlie's owner, David Gizzarelli, rallied more than 113,000 signatures on electronic petitions circulated on Charlie's behalf, and initiated a lawsuit that went from San Francisco Superior Court, to the California Court of Appeal, to the U.S. District Court, and back to Superior Court before Katz and San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera brokered a deal to send Charlie to a sanctuary.

Earlier this week, Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine went to court to argue that the state of Montana was legally required to consider steps to minimize the consequences of burning more than a half - a-billion tons of coal before leasing it to St. Louis - based Arch Coal, Inc..

When I pointed this out to Harriman, he said that his attorneys had gone farther in the answer than he had understood they would.

A freelance attorney with ten years of experience working in a large metropolitan area on brief - writing projects is going to charge more than a freelance attorney with five years of experience working in a remote location on document - review projects.

My domain http://www.peterparklaw.com has not so far gone higher than page 3 for Los Angeles personal injury attorney variation keyword search.

This apparently made Steelhead very sad, and they sent a cease - and - desist to Freetail, who responded directly rather than going through an attorney.

A $ 45 / day contribution for 10 weeks comes to $ 2,250 per associate; and if the firm has 50 summer associates, that's $ 112,000 for a legal aid group (which goes a lot further than using a summer associate to do the work pro bono; $ 112,000 could hire one, maybe two full - time legal aid staff attorneys).

Today, consumers are searching for attorneys online more than they ever have, and that's only going to increase as younger generations raised on the internet come into peak buying power.

Washington State's 2003 Civil Legal Needs survey showed that more than 80 percent of state low or moderate income needed legal services but either could not afford an attorney or did not know where to go for help.

We went through some necessary restructuring, but we came through it more unified, cohesive, and focused than we've ever been as evidenced by having elected our most diverse executive committee ever, including two women, our first Latino attorney and our first member of the LGBT community.

All of these examples have a familiar pattern: wealthy parties who can add tons of attorneys to a case going up against someone much less powerful than them.

«Jimmy» called one of our attorneys last month and the poor guys went all the way to the Bronx because he thought it'd be better than paying Jimmy's cab fair.

When you are an attorney on the go, however, smartphone security becomes more important than ever.

If each solo attorney is going to wholly own her own practice, then it requires a lot of thought around what resources to share and which ones to keep separate... Sharing resources isn't easy, but if the lawyers approach it with a belief that more can be done together than apart, that there is an abundance of resources and clients, and have a clear conflict resolution mechanism — then the effort is well worth it.»

Firms like Skadden Arps, which employs 108 staff attorneys (most of whom work out of satellite space) explained that they have more quality control over staff attorneys than temps, who come and go.

A person considering a divorce would benefit from going to an attorney sooner or rather than later so they are well aware of what their rights are and what their responsibilities may be.

Attorney Forrest Carlson of Assemble Law Group put this inadequate services issue in proper context:, «I don't honestly believe that the public is going to be harmed by LLLTs (given their current scope of authority) any more than clients are occasionally harmed by attorneys.

When one of their installation legal offices has an opening the hiring authority there has the option to go into that database and pull out a military spouse attorney and hire quicker than if they went through the normal hiring process.

I actually, I never even thought about going to other attorneys, just because, I mean, other than with the exception of this podcast, I don't feel like there's that much out there for attorneys to turn to that want to practice law as... I mean, please don't throw all the sticks at me right now, but practice law as a business.

Yet I can't go more than a week or two without seeing an attorney sit at counsel table and just start making an argument to exclude the evidence.

And though the tradition of televised attorneys that began with Perry Mason is still going strong today, with no less than 6,000 primetime legal dramas on each and every night *, no lawyer was ever as gloriously inept as Lionel Hutz.

One of the hardest parts about being a young attorney is realizing that things do not go according to plan — sometimes much more often than you would like.

In talking to lawyers about going paperless, I've come to realize that in some offices with more than one attorney or more than one staff person, the scanner (if there is one) is treated like the fax machine or the copier.

Yet the attorney's actions can go much further than a standard email disclaimer to show that the attorney attempted to solve the problem.

But what more personally gratifying incentive could there be for finding a backup attorney than going on vacation?

One example mentioned in Texas Lawyer explained the new rule as follows: If a defendant offers a settlement of $ 100,000, but the plaintiff refuses and goes to trial only to win a jury verdict of $ 80,000, then the defendant could collect costs and attorney's fees, but not more than $ 80,000.