Sentences with phrase «town lawyer who»

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a small - town lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape, in a scene from the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the novel by Harper Lee.

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Farther out there are other, numerous sects and fellowships up the dirt roads of the hollows, but the doctors and lawyers and dentists of the town, the professors who teach at the local Methodist college, all seem to come here.

Here, the noble Atticus is an aging lawyer who openly associates with the crude and racist men of the town.

The judge said it's true that Ippolito informed the town board of ethics about his arrangement with the contractor and the family trust, but the board included three lawyers who worked for the town.

Lawyers representing a group of landowners on Napeague who are seeking to assert control of a long stretch of sand in front of their properties and the East Hampton Town Trustees, who claim ownership of the stretch, will have to wait two more weeks...

Murray, who worked as a lawyer in the state attorney general's office before winning her first elected office, had said her leadership of a 759,000 - resident town — where she has been supervisor since 2003 — trumped a lack of criminal law experience.

RICHMOND TOWN — A lawyer who stole nearly $ 2 million from a Staten Island cemetery while serving as acting president pleaded guilty to grand larceny Wednesday, the attorney general announced.

The lawyer for the casino opponents who sued, Daniel Spitzer, said the ruling has ripple effects because other related decisions relied on the town's proper implementation of the state environmental review law.

Born in Ipswich, and an avowed fan of the town's football team, Gauke is a former solicitor who spent eight years as a City lawyer before becoming an MP.

But Deer's investigation - nominated in February 2011 for two British Press Awards - discovered that, while Wakefield held himself out to be a dispassionate scientist, two years before the Lancet paper was published - and before any of the 12 children were even referred to the hospital - he had been hired to attack MMR by a lawyer, Richard Barr: a jobbing solicitor in the small eastern English town of King's Lynn, who hoped to raise a speculative class action lawsuit against drug companies which manufactured the triple shot.

Keene plays a frontier lawyer who hangs up his shingle in a lawless town.

Robert Downey Jr. stars as a big city lawyer who returns home to defend his father (Robert Duvall), the town judge, who is suspected of murder.

Premise: A lawyer struggles to save his estranged father, a small - town judge, who has been charged with murder.

James Stewart stars as a small town lawyer acting as defense attorney for Ben Gazzara, accused of killing the man who supposedly raped his wife, Lee Remick.

Toronto is always a great place to start a campaign, and that's where we suspect we'll first see Downey Jr. as a big city lawyer who returns to his childhood home where his father (Duvall), the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

The woman is Laura Wells (Laura Dern), a lawyer in a small town practice, who turns up at work after her lunchtime assignation — flustered, jumper awkwardly tucked into her skirt — to find that she's still being sought by a persistent client, Fuller (Jared Harris).

Paring Maile Meloy's 11 - story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It down to a trilogy, Certain Women tells the sequential tales of Dern's Laura, a small - town lawyer called in to help defuse a hostage situation involving one of her clients (Harris); Michelle Williams's Gina, who's building a house with husband Ryan (James Le Gros); and Lily Gladstone's Jamie, a young rancher in unrequited love with night - school teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart).

In what is arguably the best role of his career, Stewart plays a small - town Michigan lawyer defending an army lieutenant (Gazzara) accused of murdering a tavern owner, who he believes raped his wife (Remick).

Ian Holm plays a morally ambiguous lawyer who comes to town with hopes of lawsuit gold, only to buck up against the various townsfolk and their various secrets.

In «The Judge,» Downey stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge (Duvall), is suspected of murder.

McConaughey, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the movie Dallas Buyers Club, also was in the 2011 film The Lincoln Lawyer, in which he starred as a lawyer who practices from his Lincoln Town Car.

He's a small town Alabama boy, now a hard luck Atlanta lawyer, who falls hard for a glamorous opera singer.

But so many of them were leaning on canes or sitting in wheelchairs that you might have thought Henry Bonwiller had been a small - town slip - and - fall lawyer and not a man who, if certain chips of fate had fallen certain other ways, might once have been president of the United States.

When he realizes he has been set up to be the scapegoat in a case of fraud and embezzlement, he goes to the only lawyer who isn't part of the good old boy network in town — Amanda.

Lisa Goodmurphy is a lawyer turned family travel writer who grew up in small town Northern Ontario and now resides in the Toronto area.

Outsourcing is frequently more efficient (economically and environmentally) and like the lawyer who's also the best typist in a town analogy, frees up time for your comparative advantage to get more done — productivity or opportunity cost, kind of.

«Any plaintiff's lawyer who regularly tries cases in small towns (to include myself — I practice primarily in rural Nebraska) can attest to this.

Barry Newman starred as Tony Petrocelli, a Harvard - educated lawyer who decides to put out his shingle in the desert Southwest town of San Remo.

I am presenting a panel on the open meeting law together with Thomas Urbelis, a lawyer who represents many cities and towns.

They'll look at reviews, they'll look at all their information but first and foremost, people want a lawyer who is close to them, easy for them to get to and they don't have to worry about driving across town or into a different area that's unfamiliar for them.

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.

This month's cover story, and really a lot of the talk of the town here in Ontario, centres on the shortage of articling spaces for all the lawyers in training graduating from law school and wanting to get into the practice of law — or at least who want to get called to the bar so they can tick it off their list of accomplishments and then go on to run a successful enterprise using their law - school smarts!

Some have responded by considering loan - forgiveness programs for new lawyers who move to small towns.

Is the accident lawyer in the next town over publishing posts that appeal to the emotional side of people who have been injured unfairly due to negligence?

[40] If I may be forgiven for that lapse into facetiousness, I would simply remind any parties who feel disadvantaged or abused by the fact that their out - of - town counsel are required to personally travel here, that this city is home to a large number of very able and competent lawyers and law firms and those parties may wish to consider the option of retaining local counsel as an alternative.

Bringing together a varied range of professionals (lawyers and non-lawyers e.g. procurement experts, town planners, property surveyors), who are experts in their field, and integrating them into the fantastic team we now are has been a privilege, but also very challenging along the way.

And members of the public who want to look up what their lawyer or paralegal has to comply with have to pay $ 1500 or go to a public library in a large city, because their town doesn't have a copy.

Guy Longtin, who was forced Monday to retire as fire chief after town council passed a motion for the policy, says he has hired an employment lawyer to challenge the legality of his termination.