Sentences with phrase «than lawyers working»

In practice, there is no evidence that lawyers who provide unbundled or coaching services are more (or even as) likely to face negligence claims than lawyers working on comprehensive retainers.

Inside counsel have differing needs than lawyers working in firms, but many of a lawyer's tasks remain the same regardless of setting.

Not exact matches

Those who think the SEC will approve the ETF point to the skillful work carried out by the Winklevoss lawyers, and to the fact that bitcoin is far more mainstream than it was even two years ago.

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.

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.

Automation, robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times have shown they can do equal or sometimes even better work than humans who are dermatologists, insurance claims adjusters, lawyers, seismic testers in oil fields, sports journalists and financial reporters, crew members on guided - missile destroyers, hiring managers, psychological testers, retail salespeople, and border patrol agents.

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.

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.

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.

The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. in 2016 had deeper ties to the Kremlin than previously disclosed and worked with Russia's chief legal office, according to emails obtained by NBC News.

«The investors work is so specialised and so intricate that there is no more reason why an individual should handle his own investments than that he should be his own lawyer, doctor, architect, or automobile mechanic.

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.

There are ways to work though our differences rather than resorting to litigation and lawyers, where the only true winners are the lawyers.

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?

Rather than go directly to lawyer in all these cases, most of them aim to work things out in a nonadversarial manner first.

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.

Commissioners who stand up for victims and witnesses in court rather than courts that simply perpetuate the working practices of lawyers.

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.

But, 95 % + of the lawyers in the state use less than 10 % of the statutes by page length, on any regular basis, and I probably use only 10 % of the tax code and 5 % of the tax regulations despite having an extremely broad tax practice in terms of the variety of subjects I deal with compared to the average lawyer who does tax work.

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

Ms Zatuliveter was granted bail on condition that she does not travel, work or meet with anyone other than family, doctors and lawyers.

More than 900 young immigrants applying for a renewal of temporary work permits had their applications rejected because of mail problems, a number far greater than immigration lawyers had thought earlier this month.

Publicly, he represented himself as a lawyer who represented «plain, ordinary simple people» in personal injury matters and did not have any cases pertaining to state business, but prosecutors said the work was nothing more than a sham.

A Salvadoran immigrant from Brentwood and her lawyer said she was detained by immigration authorities for more than a month in New Jersey as she was falsely accused of being an associate of the violent MS - 13 gang that local and federal law enforcement authorities are working to dismantle.

He also appointed Daniel Horwitz, a lawyer who formerly worked in the frauds bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney's office; he has donated more than $ 4,000 to Cuomo in recent years.

According to the State Board of Elections, the only person (other than this reporter) to review Teachout's petitions is Josh Ehrlich, a longtime Democratic election lawyer currently working for the State Senate and a smattering of private clients.

This means getting ordinary working people back into Parliament to represent the interests of hard pressed families, rather than the current cabal of lawyers, spin doctors and career politicians.

While I thought no one could work harder than my colleagues and I did as graduate students and postdocs, young lawyers work very hard.

You know you work for the Spinoff King (SK) when the university patent lawyer spends more time in your boss's office than you do.

Research on men in different occupations has shown how those occupations where their a real contest going on, or hard physical work, such as the military, trial lawyers, and construction workers experience higher testosterone levels than men in more sedate occupations.

Lincoln was shown to be more comfortable and confident in discussing his days working as a lawyer and humble beginnings than answering Mary's continuous complaints and Robert's insistence that he join the army, so that he could fulfill his duties as a man.

Most of his other early roles are disappointing, either showing his tendency to go overboard (his lawyer in «Criminal Law» is more over-the-top than Kevin Bacon's psychopath) or select roles in films where eagerness trying on new accents and psychological profiles seem to overshadow coherent character work («Chattahoochee»).

Amanda Peet, who is often better than the material she has to work with, stars as Alex, a workaholic lawyer who moves to Venice Beach, Calif., with her daughter after her ex-husband is sent to prison for insider trading.

The final story involving a female Native American rancher (Lily Gladstone, astounding) who falls in love with a young lawyer (Kristen Stewart) is the easily best of the three, but fine work from Jared Harris, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and the always stalwart James LeGros make this far more than just a place - holding anthology film.

The actor, who's found a new franchise in «John Wick» and small roles in provocative festival - circuit fare like Nicolas Winding Refn «s «The Neon Demon» and Ana Lily Amirpour «s «The Bad Batch,» has always had more range than he's given credit for — not that this role, a cynical lawyer in Louisiana who knows the system and how to work it, affords him much opportunity to display that range in an overt way.

In Roman J. Israel, Esq., Roman (Denzel Washington) is a brilliant lawyer who is better working behind the scenes than he is with people, and tries to help the downtrodden without making much money.

He argued that ESSA was not only a victory, but that his team defeated the «far, far right» because, among other things, «our lawyers are much smarter than many of the folks who were working on this bill.»

Talented people pursue careers in medicine, law, and other fields because the work is lucrative, sure, but also because they know that in order to become a doctor or lawyer they must work harder than others.

Nowhere is this «so sue me» attitude more in display than in Connecticut, where those pushing education «reform,» Gov. Dannel Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, are, like Joel Klein, lawyers who never worked in a public school.

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).

«Nowhere will a new lawyer be challenged with greater responsibilities and have the opportunity to do more for the public good than working for the federal government.

I still work with an agent who is also a lawyer, and is probably more ethical than I am.

My point is that, as a debtor, you'll get more out of the system than your bankruptcy judge, your bankruptcy lawyer, or anyone else who works in the bankruptcy system.

Otherwise, you'll be a lawyer who works very hard to get that debt paid off, and, if you're like some of my peers, you'll make just a little bit more money than those friends who don't have a huge debt to pay off.

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.

When you have a problem with your lender, it's much easier for you (or your lawyer) to deal with someone locally than to try and work things out with a customer service representative located overseas.

(I'm not listing any particular brands as I have other more important work than dealing with pet food companies» lawyers.)

Rather than attack the substance of the paper, the warmists reverted to their usual tricks, lead by Kert Davies, an activist lawyer who works for a Greenpeace front organisation called Climate Investigations Center.

Gray, a tall, lanky heir to a tobacco fortune, was then working as a lawyer in the Reagan White House, where environmental ideas were only slightly more popular than godless Communism.

I've spent way more of these past couple years addressing all the S.L.A.P. threats I get from my former company's lawyer than I've been able to spend on my real work.