Sentences with phrase «up against a lawyer»

Just realised am up against lawyers in bb.

We want our up - and - coming young lawyers to be among the best and ready especially when they are up against lawyers from outside our region.

Therefore, you will be up against a lawyer unless you hire your own lawyer.

You can conclude from the ruling that the trial judge looked carefully at the plaintiff's credibility, which did not stack up against the lawyer and the accountant.

It's like letting the wolf in the door, like going up against a lawyer in your own murder trial.

Not exact matches

At the workshop, scientists and lawyers had discussed copying a strategy against the fossil fuel industry that had been used to great effect against Big Tobacco — namely trying to prove that it had covered up knowledge that its products were harmful.

There's a reason most HR experts and employment lawyers will emphatically advise against snuggling up to a subordinate.

Artificial intelligence startup LawGeex put its software up against a group of lawyers.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a renegade lawyer going up against one of the biggest bands in the world in court only has a tiny chance of prevailing.

To create reasonable doubt about Bannister's and Phillips's guilt, their lawyers are likely to dredge up all that circumstantial evidence that the police collected against Thompson.

Second, up against the wall, Parliament gave in to the demands of the «Pots and Pans Revolution», including the protesters» demand for a new constitution to be drawn up by the people, not by politicians or their lawyers.

«You have to be concerned anytime somebody's lawyers up and try to pull an Al Franken, if you will,» Miller said, referring to the Minnesota Democratic senator who took his seat after emerging from a lengthy recount against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman with a 312 - vote win.

But Stavisky will have to go up against fellow Democrat John Messer, a Flushing lawyer and business owner, who ran against the senator in a three - way 2010 primary for the same seat.

His lawyer, Victor K. Adawudu confirmed the charge against his client on TV3's News360 almost 8 hours after the Police CID in Accra picked Anyidoho up for interrogation over comments he made suggesting an imminent coup d'état in the country.

The mayor repeatedly referred to how frequently he spoke with lawyers about donors and the fundraising issues now under the microscope — which of course, to some, might raise the question of whether he or his team suspected they were running up against the law.

But City Council members Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson have previously introduced legislation that would afford every New Yorker a lawyer in housing court — where less affluent New Yorkers are often up against better - heeled landlords — that the Independent Budget Office has estimated would cost $ 100 million.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.

Republican lawyer Chris McGrath, ramping up publicity for the state Senate election contest April 19 against Assemb.

New Jersey prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against the son of a former top de Blasio administration aide over botched evidence that backs up his self - defense claim, lawyers said Thursday...

He's a solid candidate, with plenty of good experience, a smart lawyer, and a striking departure from the nut cases the Republicans have thrown up against Cuomo in the past.

[National Review] • Spitzer and his lawyers know it may be weeks before the Feds drum up charges against him, are holding out to see what they will do, and won't make any plan until that happens.

There is so much evidence piling up in the Manhattan federal case against a man who was once one of Gov. Cuomo's most trusted aides that his lawyers...

A lawyer representing the three Bronx buddies who face up to a year in prison for throwing a snowball at an off - duty cop is filing a false arrest suit against the city.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

But it would be up to the authors of the papers, not the journal, to take any legal action against Eisen, copyright lawyers say.

Eli Stone is another lawyer hour disguised as feel - good rehabilitation fluff, with Eli now compelled to use his sharklike courtroom mojo to take up the causes of wronged underdogs against the kinds of heartless corporate clients his blue - chip firm typically represents.

The Judge, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as a big - city lawyer who reluctantly returns home and ends up defending his revered father (Robert Duvall) against criminal charges, will have its world premiere in Toronto.

The third act becomes a courtroom drama (in the loosest sense), as Barry, Adam, and Vanessa team up against a bombastic Southern lawyer (John Goodman).

Galvin's pal, a lawyer named Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden) has drummed up a little work for him: An open - and - shut malpractice suit against a Catholic hospital in Boston where a young woman was carelessly turned into a vegetable because of a medical oversight.

«They are now living underneath an insane president and in a world where people have really taken [up] against the law system and private lawyers in particular,» Jumbo says.

A bevy of journalists hole up at Bradlee's to sort through all the information, while a couple of lawyers recommend against publishing the information, arguing that it poses a risk to the paper.

Two years later, Demme followed - up with the drama «Philadelphia», starring Tom Hanks as lawyer Andrew Beckett, who was represented by attorney Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) in an AIDS discrimination lawsuit against his former employer.

The series, from executive producer David E. Kelley, stars Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride, a washed - up lawyer whose professional life is turned upside down when a young lawyer who has just been fired from his old firm brings him a wrongful death case that pits him against the head of his former firm.

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.

Signed up for one of two «competing» Gloria Steinem projects in the works (the other being Julie Taymor's My Life on the Road), this March she'll work begin filming on An Uncivil War (Carey Mulligan will topline the pic around a feminist activist and journalist Steinem, lawyer and activist Florynce Kennedy, and others to ratify the ERA, while conservative organizer Phyllis Schlafly advocates against it.

There is a saying among lawyers that if both the facts and the law are against you, the correct strategy is to jump up and down and bang on the table.

Olsen's narrative follows the highly charged, active crusade to free Pratt by the good guys - a charismatic Johnnie Cochran and the radical Irish lawyer Hanlon - who go up against a vicious informant, ruthless district attorneys, and Hoover's FBI.

You'd also have a difficult time finding someone to defend you against the suit or claim, because you'd have to pay the lawyer several thousand dollars up front.

In other words, even if they don't think they'll end up paying the claim, there's a good chance they'll still pay for a lawyer to defend you against it, at least up to the point where they are entirely certain there is no coverage.

Following a judgment by a Dutch court that the government must step up the fight against climate change, a prominent international lawyer recently proposed that the International Court of Justice rule on climate science so that the scientific disputes in this area can be settled.

The proceeding, scheduled for March 21 by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies pitted against those for San Francisco and Oakland — California cities that have accused fossil fuel interests of covering up their role in contributing to global warming.

Environmental lawyer Eric Gillespie stands against Nextera Energy bullies who are bullying a local mother who dared to stand up against them.

Documents drawn up by the coalition's advisers were provided to lawyers by the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, a coalition member, during the discovery process in a lawsuit that the auto industry filed in 2007 against the State of California's efforts to limit vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions.

I'm not going into the specifics of an email exchange, but if O'Sullivan were to sue me he would be up against some high - priced, first - rate, lawyers.

We'll talk a lot about what elawyering is up against, and then how lawyers can craft a web strategy to compete.

As The Washington Post reports today, the AAJ has brought in trial lawyers of its own to file suit against the start - up organization that calls itself The American Trial Lawyers Association, or Tlawyers of its own to file suit against the start - up organization that calls itself The American Trial Lawyers Association, or TLawyers Association, or TheATLA.

Driven by a desire to stand up for the consumer against corporate giants, enhance its efficient claims processing power and to provide a range of legal services, the Group successfully submitted an application to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for Stanton Fisher Legal Limited T / A Stanton Fisher Lawyers to be authorised as an ABS.

The subprime mess should also open up opportunities for lawyers seeking to recover money for investors or to defend corporate executives at financial institutions against charges that they misled investors with rosy predictions (no?

This position rapidly bumps up against the problem of lawyer reluctance to produce content.

One topic not likely to come up during the panel is Bluford's recent agreement to have a $ 559,330 judgment entered against him to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.