Sentences with phrase «trying jury cases»

The firm's lawyers have extensive experience in all forms of construction litigation, including successfully trying jury cases before numerous state and federal courts, and appearing before arbitration panels and mediators.

Focusing on a diverse range of issues, he has tried jury cases in federal courts around the country, and has appeared in more than 25 different district courts and six courts of appeal.

Attorney Andrew C. Simpson regularly tries jury cases on behalf of corporate and individual defendants and pursues those verdicts on appeal if necessary.

Robin Meadow tried jury cases for over 20 years at a major commercial firm, while also handling appeals, in many fields of law.

Not exact matches

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

The Village Voice would have been equally offensive to a jury in Tampa [where the case was tried] 40 years ago, but it would not have been read by people on a Tampa jury.

The prosecution, for its part, is expected to try and keep the jury's attention focused on Tsarnaev's specific crimes, according to David Hoose, a Northampton, Mass. attorney and an expert on death penalty cases.

This led to many US Supreme Court cases trying to determine the rights of captured suspected terrorists, ranging from the rights of basic humane treatment to the right of public jury trials as civilians are entitled.

«We thank Attorney General Schneiderman for his diligence in investigating and trying this case, and the jury for their service in bringing justice to New Yorkers,» she said at the time.

Speaking to potential jurors, the judge said: «This is an important case and we have to find a jury able to try it.»

«While this case has been highlighted in the press, the public is served by allowing this matter to be tried and decided by a jury,» Pulver wrote.

Federal prosecutors are continuing to try to make their case to a jury in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence in the case, which focuses on two de Blasio fund - raisers — Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — with investigators trying to determine if the two men benefited from some type of favorable municipal action, or the promise of some action, in exchange for their donations, their fund - raising or some other gesture.

Since then, the Staten Island Republican party backed Donovan, who's currently trying to block courts from releasing grand jury testimony in the Eric Garner case, to fill the vacant seat.

And they tried to convince the judge that pre-indictment publicity by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara prejudiced the grand jury that considered the cases.

Eric is an experienced litigator who has tried six Federal cases to jury verdicts.

Having tried such cases to a jury, our team understands the nuances of presenting complex property issues to both the Court and jury.

According to a report by the Associated Press, Activision tried to have the case dismissed; Superior Court Judge Ramona See stated that there seems to be a genuine dispute that a jury should consider.

The lawsuit was filed 15 June and Salazar has requested that the case is tried by a jury and points out in the complaint that she registered the image for copyright.

To cite the twentieth - century instrumental record, without mentioning all the melting — as even the occasional scientist may do before general audiences — is often suspected of being special pleading, trying to confuse nonscientists with carefully selected facts, what lawyers with a losing case sometimes attempt to do with juries.

A case needs to be tried and appealed in a Trial Court (both sides present case to a judge and jury) and Appellate Court (court reviews case without new testimony and there is no jury) before it can be presented and challenged in the Supreme Court.

When I began my own career as a district court judge, I made it a point to meet with every jury in any case I tried so that I could answer their questions and get their impressions on the trial process and their role as a jury.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from Boston.

The Blog of the Legal Times reports that in one recent case in the District of Columbia Superior Court, the court granted the prosecutors» request for a jury instruction that, if the jury found that the defendant had tried to change his appearance with eyeglasses to avoid being identified, the jury could consider it as evidence of his feelings of guilt.

SFL notes that lawyers who bluster that they are eager to try their complex case before a jury are actually saying that «they will be asking the guy in a tank top at Target to decide a complex question of securities law involving several hundred million dollars.»

David has tried cases to juries and judges in various state and federal courts throughout the U.S.. Before joining Stoel Rives, David was a law clerk for the Tenth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (1988 ‑ 1989) and in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1986 ‑ 1988).

The firm has tried hundreds of court and jury cases to conclusion — averaging 15 to 20 jury verdicts per year.

In the three P2P cases tried so far, «all three of those juries demonstrated through the very large damages awards they imposed that they view illegal downloading and «sharing» as wrong, and deserving of harsh sanction.»

In June 2008, Lightfoot tried a products liability case to a defense jury verdict on behalf of CNH America in the Circuit Court of Marshall County, Alabama.

While at the Middlesex DA's Office, Mr. Mueller tried a variety of cases to juries and to judges.

Regarding the components of «the constitutional calculus,» the Court simply referred to «general concerns of reasonableness and [the need for] adequate guidance from the court when the case is tried to a jury.»

Mr. Leopold has tried cases throughout the country and has recovered multi-million dollar verdicts, including jury verdicts in the eight - figure and nine - figure amounts.

He has successfully tried numerous cases to a jury in both state and federal courts, and has successfully pursued and defended appeals to the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

$ 1,550,000 - Million Dollar Settlement - Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Spears v. Atlas Honda, Circuit Court, Bristol, VA (2015) Case was tried before a Bristol, VA jury and settled on third day of trial.

Otis filed a claim against Cusick, the case was tried, and the jury returned a verdict in favor of Otis for $ 4 million.

While serving in the Trial Division she tried many felony criminal cases, both jury and bench trials.

I spent the past week trying a car accident case in Gwinnett County and am writing to give you an overview of some of the nuances in presenting an injury case to a conservative jury.

Mr. Lyons has more than 30 years of jury trial experience and has litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States, including successfully trying more than 40 cases to verdict.

Attorney Cicchiello is the principal litigator in the firm for over 25 years, and has had the opportunity to try numerous cases before the court, to a jury, administrative officers including workers» compensation commissioners as well as social security administrative law judges, before arbitrators and mediators.

In 2008 Mr. Simms was lead trial counsel trying to a jury verdict two separate wrongful death cases that resulted in verdicts for both clients.

How much the case is worth is most often determined when the insurance company adjuster and the attorney try to predict what an imaginary jury would award the client.

He has tried numerous cases to verdict in both jury trials and court trials.

He accomplished much in court, trying trying dozens of cases to jury verdict for his clients.

Most attorneys in fact rarely step into a courtroom and few have ever tried a medical malpractice case before a jury.

Still, jury nullification has been used in many U.S. cases, such as pre-Civil War cases that tried people for helping escaped slaves and Prohibition cases that tried people for violating the ban on alcohol.

A person should find an attorney that has years of experience helping injured parties and has a record of tried cases in front of a jury.

Attorney Cicchiello has tried a number of cases to a conclusion before the court, to a jury, the workers» compensation commission, and before arbitrators and mediators.

Once the trucking company sees that their driver has been lying all along, it is possible that they will evaluate the claims of the injured and dead passengers but it is more probable that this case will get tried to a jury.

Once every party has had a chance to make its case to the jury and to rest, the attorneys for each party present closing arguments, and the jury goes into the jury room to discuss the case and try to reach a verdict.

2 - Will you bill me more if you have to do «extra» work; i.e., researching legal issues, writing legal memoranda, arguing motions, rejecting unacceptable offers from prosecutors and judges and making additional court appearances, or even trying the case in a jury trial.