Sentences with phrase «than lawyers as»

Benmor sees a role in family law for professionals other than lawyers as long as they have the proper training, annual updates, and clear regulations.

Given the result in this case, it may well be that the duty applies to professionals other than lawyers as well.

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Cohen, who has served as Trump's lawyer for more than a decade, is under federal investigation related to a 2016 payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, among other matters.

It was wonderful to be his lawyer,» said Lesperance, a former Canadian border officer who has worked as an immigration lawyer for more than 25 years.

In fact, as the boot camp was wrapping up, China was throwing more than 100 human rights lawyers and activists into prison on allegations of organizing illegal paid protests.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

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Today, many of those who graduate with more than $ 50,000 in debt aren't the students who are pursuing highly - lucrative careers, such as becoming a doctor or a lawyer, but undergraduate students and their parents.

An experienced biotechnology patent lawyer, Dr. Noonan brings more than 20 years of extensive work as a molecular biologist studying high - technology problems in serving the unique needs of his clients.

The S&P 500 has merely regained yesterday's late - day selloff; it traded to a high of 2653.75 before dropping more than 1 % in the last hour as news broke that the FBI raided the office of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Her other work experience prior to joining JAFCO Asia includes more than 3 years as a corporate lawyer with the Corporate Department of Allen & Gledhill.

He has been quoted frequently by Bloomberg, Law360, The New York Times, and Reuters and was honored in 2016 and 2017 by Super Lawyers ® as a «Top - Rated Securities Litigation Attorney,» a recognition bestowed on no more than 5 % of eligible attorneys in the New York Metro area, and as a 2018 Super Lawyer.

As a corporate lawyer I know better than most that a corporation's duty is to its shareholders, not its employees.

Marc is a Managing Director of Business Development, bringing more than 20 years of experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer to Oberon.

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

And with markets buoyant thanks to relative stability in Washington and around the globe, as well as moderate growth from corporations, the bankers and lawyers that advise companies on mergers and acquisitions are more optimistic than they have been in years.

NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars, physicians / doctors and family members of effected individuals who suffered some sort of brain desease etc.... lawyers, so crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain)... NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY WHOSE FATHER EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT LIKE AMERICA TODAY (soon to be success based on deliberate sabotage which is nothing else than grand treason / betrayal with acts of genocide against targeted white population)!!!

Facepalm — As a lawyer who has helped more than a few people pro bono get canonical annulments, I can tell you that you are all wet.

As a divorce lawyer, she plays the social role of mopping up the messes rather than working for creative social change so that relationships might be more humane and lasting.

Others who have been closely tracking these developments, such as the Detroit - based Opus Bono Sacerdotii, an organization of lawyers helping accused priests, estimate that more than a thousand have been removed.

Did I overlook more than the one reference I found to «pastor,» and the one to «theologian,» as in «the close reasoning of the theologian,» in lawyer Simeon Baldwin's speech?

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

I prefer to conceptualize Christianity in this exemplary resurrectional fashion, as did many of the Greek Fathers, rather than in the crude Roman legalistic sense of sin - punishment - vicarious expiation, so popular with the African Fathers and particularly with Tertullian, the proto - canon lawyer, God help him.

They look like bankers and lawyers and investors rather than as humble men of God.

But we now have a third - rate lawyer as head of the FCC — a man who has done more to jettison the intent of the Act than anyone else.

Puritanism, then, did more than offer an alternative articulation of social values for seventeenth - century England even as it did more than provide parallel support to common lawyers in their fight against traditionalism.

He was finding the lawyers as tiresome as ever: «You may say this is a word - war or a word - insanity, a pleasure one owes to jurists... so many ambiguities, sophistries and chicaneries... their jargon is more confusing than all the tongues of Babylon.»

If someone has a Phd in Physics and works in advertising (with no science on the side as a hobby), is he more of a scientist than a lawyer who does amature astronomy full time after retiring?

Since Sikhs have served America as doctors, lawyers and teachers for more than a century, any attack on their house of worship should be considered an attack on all houses of worship.

And as a lawyer I should know better than to break it.

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

I need a tax lawyer to explain whether Falcao as a Monaco employee loaned to Arsenal for less than the 183 days required to become tax resident would be liable for tax in the UK.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

As for the existence of people on the internet who are evil & exploitative of children, yes they exist (I know I prosecuted a few myself when I was a lawyer), but the sad truth is that children are more likely to be harmed by people they know best than strangers.

If it goes as far as a divorce trial, it becomes the kind of divorce that makes some lawyers richer than their clients will ever be again.

You'd think high - priced lawyers working for a mega-multinational conglomerate such as Coca - Cola might have better things to do than send silly threatening letters to tiny nonprofits like the Center for Environmental Health.

The lawyer who described herself as «Voice for the Voiceless», said it was important people around the Second Lady, drew her attention to the fact that, there are more pressing national issues like child labour, child malnourishment, child prostitution that must necessarily catch her attention, rather than wowing on red carpets.

But from 1993 to 2007, she served as counsel and chief assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, supervising more than 150 lawyers in Brooklyn and Central Islip, Long Island, according to Newsday.

But Gounardes, a lawyer who now serves as chief counsel to Borough President Eric Adams, earned more votes in Bay Ridge than Golden did.

So who benefits from this continuous cycle of mergers and de-mergers other than company directors, advisors, consultants and corporate lawyers, many of whom appear to drive the whole process and receive bonuses and commissions as a result?

«As a former government lawyer I know the old trick of starting with such a sweeping proposal than any concession makes you look more reasonable.

But they are passing the buck to the Vice-President's Office which shows that they acted more as administrators taking instructions from superiors than in the true tradition of the Bar as a lawyer advising the Government.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

NEW YORK CITY — Lawyers for a former governor's aide and a Syracuse - area developer portrayed their clients today as nothing more than fools who were duped by key prosecution witness Todd «Ransom» Howe.

«I have no comment on this story other than to question how a felony distribution case magically turned into a misdemeanor, as O'Connell's own lawyer admitted to the New York Post.

So the mayor's defense lawyers had recently been pushing Bharara to make a decision sooner rather than later, by arguing that Bharara would be seen as «pulling a Comey» and putting his thumb on the voting scales if he waited much longer.

Prosecutors allege he used his position to take more than $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks, which he masked as legitimate income earned as a lawyer over 15 years.

But as well - known civil liberties lawyer and writer Harvey Silvergate has said, «Scrutiny and debate are more effective ways of combating hate speech than censorship.»

As Trump University was the target of an investigation by then - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman more than four years ago, Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, were told through a Hudson Valley - based attorney that Schneiderman was accused of sexually abusing two women.

It is equally important to state that the said judge under one guise or the other solicited and collected from several other lawyers with not less than nine senior advocates involved as at the last count.