Sentences with phrase «town lawyer taking»

A case could be made for Gregory Peck in «To Kill a Mockingbird» or Marlon Brando in «The Godfather,» but they had other pressing obligations — one as a small - town lawyer taking a stand against racism and the other a mob kingpin whose idea of family goes beyond mere blood relatives.

Not exact matches

According to the report, the incident took place earlier this year in Surat, which is known as the industrial town of Gujarat, when eight policemen of Amreli district's local crime branch unit and a lawyer abducted a real - estate businessman Shailesh Bhatt to a farmhouse in Gandhinagar.

But Berky took it to another level, ultimately involving the town board, the sheriff, the town police chief, a pair of lawyers, the state freedom of information office, various and sundry politicians and a few curious journalists.

He presents the evidence to his boss, and we finally hear Pacino monologue about «what it takes to be a good lawyer in this town.»

Joey is turned away by every attorney in town until Paul Hawks (Brian Murray), a retired lawyer whose home Joey is rehabbing, agrees to take on his case.

Crime & Federalism guest - blogger Maren Chaloupka takes serious issue with a story in The National Law Journal, «Small Town Trial Blues: When suits take lawyers to small towns, it can — but needn't — lead to big trouble.»

I think most lawyers are paying lip service to that but what your typical client relationship looks like is you make somebody come to your office, which probably means taking time off work or paying or figuring out how to get daycare for your kids, taking a different bus, wandering around town until they find your office in the office park or in the section of downtown, trying to find it in the building.

Prosecutors alleged the lawyers were part of a scheme that recruited fake buyers from clients of the dominatrix and fetish club and took out mortgages in their names on more than 50 homes in the exclusive Long Island town of Southampton.

Prosecutors allege the lawyers were part of a scheme that took out mortgages on more than 50 homes in the exclusive Long Island town of Southampton on behalf of fake buyers.

In fact, we've run many stories about lawyers in towns across the country who want to retire but can't because they can't find anyone to take over their practices.

It seems that when little, common place things start to get a bit more difficult — things like: getting a divorce, managing a business, resolving civil disputes, or defending criminal cases — small towns take a hit; a lack of lawyers isn't the death - blow, but it is a symptom of a potentially terminal disease.

In To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee gave us a sweet, idillic view of small town life in the 1930's, a sobering take on Jim Crow, and an introduction to the prototypical rural lawyer.

With a story like that, you'd think that Gura would be celebrated as the toast of the town — respected by constitutional scholars and Supreme Court advocates for an extraordinary result or held out as an inspiration to young, unemployed lawyers languishing in document review jobs that taking big risks by starting a practice and handling compelling cases can yield big rewards.

Jan Goddard has, like many others in the profession, observed the phenomenon of small - town lawyers struggling to find someone to take over their practices as they approach retirement age.

The outcome is likely tied to the fact that the case was taking place in the federal district for Eastern Texas — a cluster of small towns that turned patent trolling into a major cottage industry, welcoming lawyers from across the country to sue app developers and everyone else.