Sentences with phrase «unrelated matter»

The «bright line» rule does not apply in unrelated matters where «it is unreasonable for a client to expect that its law firm will not act against it».

I understand and acknowledge that any volunteer who does assist me is free to act for other clients against me on other unrelated matters in the future, without notice to me.

There's been some controversy surrounding the issue of combining student aid reform with the seemingly unrelated matter of health care reform.

Then when you get back to the dealer and park, that's your time to talk about the car (not unrelated matters).

Is it reasonable for the existing client to expect that the law firm will not act against it in unrelated matters.

Tweets from Coinbase, its sister GDAX exchange and even founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam on unrelated matters soon became a battleground for consumers demanding explanations for stuck transactions and associated costs.

For example, is it a conflict if the arbitrator (or the arbitrator's law firm) represents a party in a completely unrelated matter involving the same funder?

I have seen far too many examples of clients who, despite warnings, post: • Comments about dancing at somebody's wedding until 3AM, or going to a nightclub • Pictures of their recent vacation, complete with lots of images of physical activities and smiling faces • Details about totaling their cars or ending up in the hospital for unrelated matters

On a completely unrelated matter, did anyone else notice that Roberts voted to strike down the federal Stolen Valor Act on the same day Michael Knox Beran thinks John Roberts taught us all a valuable lesson about how judicial review should only very, very rarely be used?

If he is asked questions about unrelated matters, I have counseled him to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege,» a position Keating said is «fully appropriate» under the law.

Imagine what would happen if a trillion - dollar private sector entity operated without a CEO because its board of directors squabbled over unrelated matters, rather than approving the appointment of the top executive.

Tweets from Coinbase, its sister GDAX exchange and even founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam on unrelated matters soon became a battleground for consumers demanding explanations for stuck transactions and associated costs.

Even searching for the word «Boston» may fall short, she says, because it could lead to unrelated matter like Boston tourism or fail to capture relevant tweets that did not include the word Boston.

However, the court also noted there can be exceptions, such as governments, banks, or other large organizations that regularly appear in the courts and likely have a more tolerant attitude towards law firms they retain on unrelated matters acting against them.

In a legally unrelated matter, Globe & Mail reports, today, that a Federal Court judge «has ordered the fed gov» t «$ 200,000 in legal costs incurred by Jean Chrétien in his fight to restore his name after being blamed for the sponsorship scandal by the Gomery inquiry in 2005.

But when McKercher accepted Wallace's retainer, it was also acting for CN on a few unrelated matters.

Factors such as the nature of the relationship between the law firm and the client, the terms of the retainer, as well as the types of matters involved, may be relevant to consider when determining whether there was a reasonable expectation that the law firm would not act against the client in unrelated matters.

At the hearing, the Society's Disciplinary Panel extensively questioned «X» about unrelated matters, such as his other business ventures and personal information about his partners in those ventures.

When the class action was launched, McKercher, which has offices in Saskatoon and Regina, was also acting for CN Rail in a number of other unrelated matters.

And if Cohen does eventually face charges on unrelated matters, it's at least possible that he'd flip and offer up incriminating information on Trump as part of a plea deal, should he have any (though he's emphatically denied that he'd ever do such a thing).

On a completely unrelated matter, are going to deal with that paper by Ferenc Miskolczi at some point?

While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations.

Shkreli, 32, is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, in an unrelated matter.

Although Steele had a history of «credible reporting on other unrelated matters,» the committee's memo said, the FBI and Justice Department should have told the court about his «anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations.»

According to the Times Union, the investigation into allegations of workplace sexual harassment began last May when the inspector general's office was looking into an unrelated matter involving another DCJS employee.

The extensions were connected to unrelated matters, of which were controversial.

On unrelated matters, nominations for the European elections closed yesterday and candidate lists were published, so I've updated the election guide part of the site with the full candidates: Scotland, North East, North West, Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, Wales, East of England, South West, South East and London.

Her comments were unsolicited, and followed an interview on an unrelated matter.

Attorney Lisa Bloom at a Sept. 20 press conference on an unrelated matter.

But Vacco argues the process was initially about an unrelated matter: Racist comments written late last year in ArtVoice, protected under the First Amendment.

Critical sales tax extenders became attached to another unrelated matter - all to leverage votes.

CPV, the company building the 680 megawatt plant, was in the news in 2016 when federal prosecutors charged Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with accepting bribes from the firm in an unrelated matter.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated matters.

But Kazannik's resignation on 27 February — over an unrelated matter — is giving them cause for concern.

BOEMRE spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz says that the proceedings have nothing to do with «scientific integrity, his 2006 journal article, or issues related to permitting, as has been alleged» and regard an unrelated matter.

He finds the right opportunity when the company calls in the FBI on an unrelated matter, bringing in Special Agents Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) and later Bob Herndon (Joel McHale).

A carbon tax is worth embracing on its own terms and what we do with the revenues is an entirely separate, unrelated matter.

For the media outlet, two specialists gave their opinion on two unrelated matters.

The central issue is whether it's a conflict of interest for a law firm to accept a retainer to sue a current client on an unrelated matter without first obtaining their consent.

In an unrelated matter, the SCC has also granted leave to appeal in a slew of intellectual property cases in which a Quebec artist is suing several broadcasting companies for copyright infringement for allegedly copying his character sketches.

He says it relates to the top court's 2002 decision in R. v. Neil, which stated the general rule is that a lawyer or law firm shouldn't act directly contrary to the immediate interests of a current client, even on an unrelated matter.