Sentences with phrase «used by defense lawyers»

Social media evidence is often admissible in court and is a potent weapon used by defense lawyers when disputing the merits of a plaintiff's personal injury claim.

Not exact matches

By late 2015, with the federal investigation active, Mangano was using his campaign account to pay a criminal defense lawyer.

Defense lawyers and jurors have vigorously questioned a strategy by the New York Police Department that prizes the pursuit of the addicts who use drugs over the people who supply them.

The Espadas» defense lawyer, the Daily News reports, is claiming the men assumed their use of taxpayer funds from the Soundview Health Clinics they controlled — to pay for things like sushi restaurant tabs and birthday party pony rides — were legal because the expenses were approved by an accounting firm.

A lawyer for retired NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant suggested his client could use the same defense cited by the FBI in clearing the Democratic presidential candidate in her email scandal: ignorance of the law.

Also important, every one of the lawyers on our defense team has an in - depth knowledge and certification in standardized field sobriety testing (as used by law enforcement officers throughout New Jersey).

Admittedly, Tenenbaum's defense lawyer, Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson, has his hands somewhat tied, given that Tenenbaum admitted in his deposition to downloading the songs and given the 11th - hour ruling by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner that Tenenbaum could not use a fair use defense.

By yesterday morning, in fact, Mr. Bush's arguments for keeping Mr. Libby out of prison had become an unexpected gift to defense lawyers around the country, who scrambled to make use of them in their own cases....

A legal team equipped with a former insurance defense attorney and a former trucking company lawyer, we know the tactics used by insurance companies from the inside out.

But an exasperated California Court of Appeal issued an opinion this week using no uncertain words to show its impatience with its perceived abuse of the law by plaintiff and defense lawyers alike, as both Shaun Martin and J. Craig Williams write about on their blogs.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

In Securing Reasonable Caseloads, Lefstein proposes that public defense organizations study their caseloads using Delphi methods, in which an expert panel determines what lawyers should be doing and how much time it should take, using a series of online questions followed by an in - person meeting.

Our qualifications speak for themselves with former DWI prosecutors and veteran Union County DWI defense lawyers who possess 100 years of combined experience and who are certified by the National Transportation Safety Administration for Field Sobriety Testing and certified to operate the Alcotest machine used by the police.

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In addition to increases in rates charged by malpractice defense counsel and an increase in claims related to cyber events — including hacking of systems used by lawyers and law firms — the survey revealed that conflicts of interest continue to be a common cause of or factor in malpractice claims.

In international law, for example, most lawyers believe that the use of force must almost always be authorized by the United Nations Security Council (self - defense is the only exception.)