Sentences with phrase «than lawyers at»

They also showed less overall satisfaction than lawyers at smaller firms.

We staff cases leanly, keep our overhead low, and charge lower fees than lawyers at larger firms.

Surely a second tier lawyer is better than no lawyer at all.

Not exact matches

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

CHICAGO, April 11 - Retailer Toys» R» Us has received multiple bids of more than $ 1 billion for an 85 percent stake in its Asian business, its lawyer Joshua Sussberg said at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing on Wednesday.

The surge of big transactions — with more than 20 deals worth at least $ 10 billion — has been bolstered by a desire by boards to head off disruptive technological threats and accelerate growth, according to bankers and lawyers who spoke to the Financial Times.

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»

While the recent Champion Auto Sales, LLC et al. v Pearl Beta Funding, LLC decision was a win for MCA companies because it determined at the appellate level that an MCA contract issued by Pearl Beta Funding to Champion Auto Sales «was not a usurious transaction,» many lawyers are saying that, more than anything, this -LSB-...]

The transport authority's list of concerns with Uber has more than halved to 11 from 25 after it committed to governance changes and apologized for setting up hostile software, a lawyer for the ride - hailing app said at a hearing Monday.

From an investment point of view, however, I think it makes more sense to pay lawyers to work at that stage of the company's life (where it appears there is a company) than at the seed stage.

Graber may know a lot more about data breaches than the average lawyer — he is a key lawyer for plaintiffs in the massive data breach at Anthem Inc. that «compromised the personal identification and health information of more than 80 million customers of the health care company,» according to the law firm.

The politicians rule us, rather than represent us, and the justice system has been replaced by a legal system wherein the judges and lawyers play games at the expense of the taxpayers.

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.

At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two - thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers noted that the Internet was playing an increasing role in marital splits, with excessive online porn watching contributing to more than half of the diLawyers, two - thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers noted that the Internet was playing an increasing role in marital splits, with excessive online porn watching contributing to more than half of the dilawyers noted that the Internet was playing an increasing role in marital splits, with excessive online porn watching contributing to more than half of the divorces.

The tab for the financial consultants and lawyers and investment bankers working for Tops Markets during its bankruptcy is at more than $ 1.1 million and counting.

IBT also reported that Vance received more than $ 42,000 from lawyers at a criminal defense firm whose clients received plea deals from Vance's office that let them avoid prison, including another high profile sexual assault case.

«If there's going to be more than one casino in the metropolitan area, then we should not deprive the upstate communities,» Bonacic said in a panel discussion at the Saratoga Institute on Racing & Gaming Law that attracted about 100 lawyers, lobbyists and others tied to the racing and gambling industry.

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.

Albany, NY — The state ethics commission is cracking down on receptions held by lobby groups at the state Capitol, and has charged three groups, including the trial lawyers and a police association with violating a new law that bans gifts worth more than an ordinary cup of coffee.

Lawmakers voted to have Rural Law Center handle appeals from people who can't afford their own lawyer at $ 2,250 per case, which is lower than what it's been costing the county to hire local lawyers

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.

Clegg, who has lived at 26 Lauren Court in Woodstock for 25 years, said in his press release that his experience as a trial lawyer, defending people's rights and more than 40 years of «community service make him well - suited to represent the sprawling and diverse» district.

On Friday, at least four assistant US attorneys from Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office grilled de Blasio for more than four hours at the Midtown office of his lawyer, Barry Berke.

Correction Officer William Valentin's lawyer, Phil Seelig, wrote a letter to Commissioner Joseph Ponte claiming the jails boss has intentionally denied Valentin access to campaign at city lockups until after May 18, less than two weeks before ballots are mailed out.

The e-mail is also a fundraising appeal that asks supporters to help Rice keep the spot on the air by contributing and warns rather ominously that she will be the subject of attacks in the coming weeks «by career politicians and wealthy political insiders who will stop at nothing to make sure that our state's next lawyer is a politician, rather than a career legal advocate.»

Crown Heights resident Rob Murray, 43 — who makes more than $ 105,000 a year with the Service Employees International Union — turned himself in at the 5th Precinct station house in Chinatown with his lawyer around 8 a.m.

Fresh faced, wearing metal - rimmed glasses and a silky black dress cinched at the waist, she resembles more a neighborhood volunteer than a politician — an identity born out of her upbringing in the Glen Oaks section of Eastern Queens, where she was raised by a father who was a labor organizer and a mother who was a tenant lawyer.

Lawyers representing Perez Williams spent more than five hours at a hearing at the state Board of Elections in Albany, arguing that she had enough valid signatures on nominating petitions to appear on the ballot.

Jenifer Rajkumar, a human rights lawyer and an adjunct professor at CUNY, came in second, securing 19 percent of the vote with more than 1,600 ballots cast in her favor, in the six - way race.

But Republican U.S. Senate hopeful George Maragos, who has been in the race longer than either Rep. Bob Turner or lawyer Wendy Long, has lashed out in recent weeks at both candidates.

The American Geophysical Union, representing more than 62,000 Earth, atmospheric and space scientists worldwide, has teamed with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to make lawyers available for confidential sessions with scientists at its annual meeting next month.

Lawyers rarely heed scientists» cautions «that the neurobiological evidence at issue is weak, particularly for making claims about individuals rather than studying between - group differences,» they add.

By the time I graduated from law school in 1975, I had three preschool - age kids and a husband, at a time when female lawyers comprised less than 3 percent of all lawyers and were generally unwelcome in law firms and the halls of justice.

Even the Jewish guy at the passport place has to spell it out when he apologetically acknowledges that Jewish lawyers have better contacts than black lawyers «for systemic reasons.»

Nick Kroll plays a young ACLU lawyer in over his head, whose commitment to justice is at times hampered by seeing the Lovings as case precedent rather than human beings.

Leonardo DiCaprio has played several real - life larger than life players onscreen, but his best portrayal was recapturing his own youth, at 28 playing 18 - year - old Frank Abagnale, who conned his way through several schemes, including commercial airline pilot, doctor and lawyer.

All it takes is a single glance of Jewel on that fateful night at the titular bar for no less than three men to become hopelessly besotted with her: bartender Randy (Matt Dillon); his married lawyer cousin Carl (Paul Reiser); and police detective Dehling (John Goodman).

When Kazzmaire Dorsey was in kindergarten and first grade at the Luís Muñoz Marin School in Bridgeport, he spent more of his school day sitting in the office or suspended at home than he did in the classroom, his lawyer says.

Lawyers advised (at least some) publishers that agency required a contractual relationship between the publisher and each point of distribution, resulting in deal - making complexity that leaves some retailers without a full shelf of agency publisher books more than six months after the shift.

Under current rules, which remain in effect until 2011, starting CPP at the earliest age of 60 entails a 30 - per - cent reduction in monthly payments but «you would have to live well past 75 in order to receive more from the plan than by waiting until the normal retirement age of 65,» writes tax and estate lawyer Christine Van Cauwenberghe in her book, Wealth Planning Strategies for Canadians 2010.

Bankruptcy lawyers are better at some parts of the law than they are others.

Rather than look at your credit history — which may be short depending on your age, or nebulous depending on such things as identity theft — UpStart calculates credit worthiness based on your career (for example, a lawyer is deemed more credit worthy than, say, an actor), your educational status, your job status (obviously, if you're employed, you're more credit worthy than someone who isn't) and standardized test scores to determine if you're worthy of a loan from them.

A partnership to operate a business (like lawyers, as opposed to an investment partnership) probably distributes the allocated amounts, at least approximately, rather than holding them in the partnership; I expect this is your year - end draw (technically a draw can be any allowed amount, not necessarily the allocated amount).

Second, if your budget dictates that you need to put the debt settlement payments over five or six years to make a debt elimination plan work than you should look at adjusting your budget or examining other options for dealing with your credit card debt, perhaps even calling a bankruptcy lawyer.

ALWAYS know exactly what you are signing before you sign it, keep a file copy, and get explanations of anything that is at all unclear... and if in doubt over anything more than a trivial agreement consider hiring a lawyer to read thru it and tell you which items you should attempt to have crossed out.

Having a skilled MN Bankruptcy Attorney at your side throughout the bankruptcy process can considerably reduce the amount of time and effort involved in the filing process and in many cases hiring a lawyer can be more affordable than tackling such an undertaking by yourself when you consider the time and effort you will need to invest in your bankruptcy filing on your own.

More than a lawyer, John has become the closest Mickey will ever be to getting a family of his own: someone who cares deeply about him, visiting him at least once a week in his boarding facility, covering his vet expenses, sharing his story and making sure Mickey's needs will always be covered.

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Carbon traders; dodgy academics; vulture capitalists pecking on the bloated carcass of renewable energy; environmental NGOs; environmental consultancies who specialise in giving «expert» testimony at planning appeals, arguing on the most spurious grounds that no the bats and birds in this area aren't going to be affected by this new wind turbine they're going to be happier than ever no really; sustainability officers at every level of local government; advisers attached to every business who advise them how to reduce their CO2 count; PR companies that specialise in green awareness; dog - on - a-rope wind turbine scamsters; environmental lawyers.

Looking at the graph in the linked article the graph shows that the image of lawyers is competent but cold whereas scientists are a bit more competent and a lot warmer and Engineers are even more competent and a bit warmer yet — more competent than the warmer doctors — just, not as warm as professors and teachers.