Sentences with phrase «what older lawyers»
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President Trump said that lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to the adult - film actress to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.
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President Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to stop what Trump called «false and extortionist accusations» about a decade - old affair.
One question was seldom in the foreground: What had become of the old counsellors» dictum that «about half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would - be clients that they are damned fools and should stop»?
Son of an itinerant evangelist, spotless in his family life, loyal to his friends, a superb orator, a lawyer and politician, Ingersoll rejoiced in pointing out what he believed to be the evils sanctioned in the Old Testament and was an enthusiastic Darwinian.
What do you know now, that you wish you had known you entered parliament as a 29 - year - old lawyer in the election of 1970?
After giving students sufficient time to read and process what appears in the story, the teacher should then inform the students that the parents of the ten year old have hired a lawyer, with the lawyer determined to «take this case all the way to the US Supreme Court.»
The average earnings of 25 - year - old lawyers, fresh from law school, are a fraction of what 45 - year - old attorneys are paid, possibly because many of the 25 - year - olds are still trying to land a job.
I took a quick look, and from what I've read, it's no wonder 13 - year - old Theo wants to be a lawyer (or a judge; he hasn't decided yet)... his mom and his dad are lawyers, and he has a dog named Judge!
In short, while «effectively let go from the old company and re-hired as new employees at the acquiring company» might be what it appears from the outside, legally it might be something different, and everybody is waiting till the lawyers figure out the details, and does not want to allow rollovers etc until the dust has settled.
«We have lots of room left in both, but we aren't sure what we should be contributing to first,» says Jessica, a 29 - year - old lawyer in Toronto's legal publishing industry.
When Diego Padilla received a phone call last year from an estate lawyer, the 34 - year - old Montrealer could hardly believe what he was hearing.
So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.
An old - school lawyer may know better, but I'm pretty sure doing business with the government has always had fairly comprehensive requirements regarding what could and could not be deleted.
The same Matt Pawa who was a key lawyer in the Kivalina v Exxon case, where the old US News & World Report magazine report about it couldn't miss what the goal of the case was supposed to reveal.
Kate Gosselin's failure to appear in court led lawyer Heller to embark on what Fox described as a «tirade» on the courthouse steps, calling Kate «the old lady who lived in the shoe» and claiming she was running up huge dinner tabs in Manhattan on the same day she appeared on TV complaining that she was broke.
There are still those old school lawyers — dare I say dinosaurs — who insist that what really counts is time at your desk.
And even that assumes that there is any kind of consensus on what a «good» lawyer is, which is, as old - fashioned litigators used to (and may still) write, not admitted but denied.
The old adage of «you get what you pay for» is something that most lawyers understand, and it applies when comparing cloud productivity software.
Adriana Linares: What I am trying to do usually which I think might be different than a lot of lawyers who are looking for an old document, they are not really sure which one it was.
It is a prime example of what happens when lawyers blindly copy from old documents.
What should be an optimum circumstance for a good, old - fashioned reference conversation is instead a hurried, frantic affair, grabbing at search terms and situations as they fly through the lawyer's brain, out his mouth and into the ether.
What would you say to a young lawyer or law student who wanted to be an appellate lawyer, or an older lawyer who would like to take on appellate cases?
When McCoy was a young woman, she said she didn't know what she wanted to be but an older male lawyer suggested she go to law school.
It was a watershed event in what we might look back at 25 years from now as The End of the Old Way of making lawyers.
With so much attention paid to these newcomers, it is easy to overlook the venerable old - timers — the companies that have been at this a long time and, because of that, have learned a thing or two about what lawyers want.
For Make a Will Month, we wanted to know what people think of estate planning; this infographic helped us debunk some estate planning myths like «you need a lawyer to make your will» when in reality anyone over 18 years old can do it.
As Furlong says, «It's tempting to dismiss these forecasts as bleeding - edge speculation, and to repeat the old canard that a machine will never replace what a lawyer can do.
What's more, as a lawyer, I don't think PSY or Old Spice are a valid model for success.
A 10 or 15 lawyer retail firm covering a handful of personal service practice areas reconstituting as part of a 300 + lawyer national firm would have meant throwing out the old owner's manual and starting from scratch, moving from what was essentially a small - business management system to a much more corporate model.
Like the Chinese clients referred to by your students, the older generation are impressed by a lawyer who uses legalese while the younger generation is more concerned with what the lawyer can do for them.
It's actually an old episode of Law Firm Marketing Mastery, which is what The Art of Lawyering used to be called.
«What seemed to be helpful to the younger lawyers was seeing the older getters talk about the fact that it isn't easy — it takes practice, and confidence, and with practice, you develop the confidence.»
Yet the older male persona is still what people think of when they think «lawyer.»
I am an older white male and no doubt should apologise for my thoughtless success as a lawyer and the surprising revelation that although I am part of a system which produced the Constitution Act giving everyone the right to thought, speech and expression, I am now to be told what to think, say and express!
«Part of what we're going for is to make self - publishing and blogging more accessible to a smaller - firm lawyer or individual lawyer,» Joshua Lynch, LexBlog's 28 - year - old chief technology officer, told me during a recent interview.
Bob Ambrogi: Speaking of that app, and I have written favorably about your app and I know that for the last three years of the ABA's Legal Technology Survey Report your app has been rated by lawyers as the most popular legal app in that survey, but still, it's what, five, six years old at this point.
It's one of the oldest entities in the American Bar Association having been recognized from basically about 1930 that this was a key resource to the nation and to the lawyers of the nation, and it is something that we have supported, encouraged, and liaised with and provided both insights I hope on what lawyers need and also to be the voice of the Law Library of Congress and the Library of Congress in general to the legal profession as a whole, not just domestically but worldwide.
Lawyers Weekly - December 28, 1998 «Multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements in the emotional and lucrative field of medical malpractice are old hat for Drew Meyer, who had another banner year in 1998 by chalking up several $ 1 - million - plus recoveries, including what is believed to be the commonwealth's largest award ever in a wrongful - death suit.»
«What's Old is New Again... Medicare Reimbursement / Enforcement Initiatives that TH / AMCs Should Keep on the Radar,» American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC, January 21 - 22, 2010
Rather than continue to accept old assumptions, firms should look for improvements in every aspect of what lawyers do and how they do it.
What seems especially slimy to me is that these older lawyers can financially benefit from the flooding market and invoking fears in new lawyers by taking 60 % of a new lawyer's billings.
Precedent sits down with the 35 - year - old to find out what on earth a marijuana lawyer does all day....
«My goal is to make it affordable for the law students, for the college moot court teams, the high school competition teams, the lawyers, even a 12 - year - old who thinks «hey, I want to be a lawyer one day; what is it like in the courtroom?
What sets the Firm and its lawyers apart is this century - old system, created to develop great lawyers who are equipped to deliver the highest possible quality legal work to clients.
What many lawyers (new & old) struggle with is the more intangible aspects of being a good lawyer.
«When I think of my sons, they don't want to be lawyers but some of their friends do, and they come to me at 17 or 18 years old and say «what kind of profession can we expect?»
(I digress to add: Isuppose I could have added, the «X» and «not X» of the situation where the SCC tell us that what Canadian lawyers are to now understand is the «correct» meaning of words in an older SCC decision where the SCC now says that the older meaning, long acted on, long accepted — even buy the SCC — isn't actually what those words were ever intended to mean; isn't actually how those words should ever have been understood; and this isn't because the dog ate somebody's homework or other equally worthwhile excuse.)
The reason I asked you to bring this up is so that I could offer some ideas on the significance of this old car for me, and what it could mean for baby lawyers.
In «SmallLaw» firms, the person deciding what to do about a problematic older lawyer is very likely to be that very same lawyer (or maybe his brother or childhood friend, who will be facing the same issue soon).