Sentences with phrase «than the lawyers going»

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Lawyers and law firms have so far donated a total of $ 24.3 million to all presidential candidates in the 2011 - 2012 election cycle, and more than half of that — $ 15.4 million — has gone to President Obama.

«We'd rather see our money go to artists than lawyers,» he said.

«I think that everybody agrees, except the lawyers, that it's in everyone's best interest to settle in advance than go to war,» says Jonathan Feldman, partner with Goodmans LLP in Toronto.

Most business owners sued by patent trolls don't talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one's fingers and hope the problem goes away.

My high - powered lawyers are on stand - by in case things go beyond the denial strategy, but here goes, a Pomocon exclusive: Lena Dunham: Well, the thing I mentioned yesterday is actually much further along than that.

I have been watching Law & Order most of my life and I binged Suits over the summer, but I not going to claim I know more than the lawyers do.

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

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.

I breasfeed, make my own babyfood, use store brand diapers (and I've consistenly had 2 kids in diapers for 5 years, so the cost never goes up) and own all the gear and boy and girl clothes, and stay home (after more than 2 kids - I'm pregnant w / # 5, you'd have to be a doctor, lawyer, or CEO to be able to pay for daycare.

The state Board of Elections, with hawk - eyed lawyers from both sides going over every line, certified more than 1,451 signatures for Collier.

Schlossberg's racist rant, caught on video by a fellow customer, had more than 5 million views online in two days, and fallout for the lawyer since the video went viral was continuing into Thursday.

«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.

In the normal course of events politicians rarely go to jail; not necessarily because they have more virtuous characters than the rest of us, but because they can usually afford better lawyers and character witnesses (and being part of the political / legal establishment probably doesn't hurt either).

These guys have more lawyers than Hein on staff, and that's going some.

«Rather than pursue a design that would minimize the risks, the city went with a cheaper design,» said Commodore's lawyer George Pallas.

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.

First my lawyer mixed up all dates, than we wasn't sure when we are going to Vienna.

Bigger and better than the niche lawyer dating sites, EliteSingles is the go - to destination for those looking for lasting romance.

I looked into leaving my wife a few years ago, and the lawyer estimated the check I was going to have to bring to the table, and I decided sugar babies are a lot better business deal than divorce.

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»).

After living for more than thirty years under an assumed identity as a civil rights lawyer and single father in New York, he must now go on the run.

Judd has a rough go of it, because military justice is much different than civilian, and enlists the services of ex-lush lawyer Freeman, a civilian that took on the military before and won.

There are students who live in some of the very wealthy suburbs where we've studied their aspirations who can't imagine not going to university and who can't imagine being anything other than a doctor or a lawyer, because that's what people in their world and their community are engaged in.

It's better than going to a lawyer or debt consolidation to save.

If your claim is more than your province's limit for small claims, then your case goes to Superior Court where a lawyer will likely represent you.

They are a lot more affordable than hiring a big law office and Legal Zoom's lawyers have always gone above and beyond for me.

From the folks I've talked to, there appear to be a couple of different issues with the criminal codes (and again, I'm not a lawyer, but there are people smarter than I am telling me this stuff — one of whom is a lawyer, so I'm going to relay this the best I can):

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.

The reductive dimensions of this on - going process struck me as the way in which we are now training law students to «handle» the «facts» to which they'll «apply the law» as if they were going to spend their professional lives taking and re-taking the Bar Exam rather than helping their clients secure a relatively predictable future (the transactional lawyers) or resolve conflict without the bitter aftertaste of injustice in their mouths.

Model Rule 1.2 goes further than its vague language of objectives versus means and explicitly states, «A lawyer shall abide by a client's decision whether to settle a matter.»

It seems you can't go a day without reading about how law school enrollment is plummeting, big law firms are imploding, lawyers are flaming out faster than 4th of July -LSB-...]

The lawyer I met with told me that she and her colleagues are simply more intentional about going to the city for entertainment and probably do so more than city - folk.

For senior lawyers with more than 10 years of experience, the 2015 Robert Half salary guide released last week predicts salaries at mid-sized law firms will go up by 4.8 per cent, putting them in a range of $ 159,000 to $ 222,750.

I've had more than one lawyer share that they are paying for therapy out of pocket rather than go through the firm's insurance plan for fear that they may be found out.

As trends among lawyers go, the urge to unmask online is far less disturbing than the urge to undress in public buildings.

Around a year ago, when I still had some of my savings from BigLaw, I scoffed at the idea of working as a contract lawyer project for a number of reasons: (1) It didn't pay much, ranging from $ 29 - 40 an hour (which is exactly why it makes sense for firms to do more outsourcing than hiring; (2) it was a full 40 - hour workweek (which I never want to go back to); and (3) it is mind - numbingly boring.

As before, I'm going to focus less on the benefits that Twitter can deliver to individual lawyers (which I've covered a couple of times at Law21) than on the best ways... more»

The Law Society of Upper Canada has disbarred an «ungovernable lawyer» who cooked up a story about having his car stolen from a gas station while he went to buy a lottery ticket to explain away more than $ 200,000 in missing client money.

The last time there were fewer than 1 million lawyers in the United States was 1998, when there were 985,921 lawyers, according to the ABA's historical data going back to 1878.

«Software is eating the world and legal services have to be delivered now in some form other than a text - based narrative or by an advisory consultant... Increasingly, lawyers are going to be needed to build information products comprised of a mix of tech, design [and] project management.

As before, I'm going to focus less on the benefits that Twitter can deliver to individual lawyers (which I've covered a couple of times at Law21) than on the best ways that law firms as corporate entities can utilize this social media tool.

«Being organized, being able to design and execute on your own vision, being able to imagine and manage your own career trajectory, being able to manage your own time and having an ambition that comes from within rather than an ambition that's in competition with your co-workers — these are qualities that are going to be especially valuable as we transition to a gig economy, and these are all qualities that lawyers possess,» he says.

Yes, he may be probably more negative on the industry generally (just because of legal numbers declining / firms cutting costs / outsourcing of lawyers etc. rather than he thinks law firms are suddenly going to decide they don't need information nor switch to a Google style product) but more that the old duopoly that drove profits is dead.

Not surprisingly, the panel had some disheartening statistics on access to justice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know where to go.

When going to trial becomes necessary, no one does more to build and present the best case for his or her client than a divorce lawyer for Edward F. Whipps & Associates.

You may go home every night wondering why you lost despite knowing so much more than the other lawyer and being so academic.

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The categorization often and unfortunately, has gone hand in hand with a hierarchy or belief that lawyers and what they do is somehow more important than the work done Read More...

More often than not, where appropriate, a personal injury lawyer works towards an out of court settlement rather than going for a trial.

In almost all personal injury cases, a good Mesa personal injury lawyer is going to be able to put significantly more money in your pocket than you would ever be able to get on your own.