Sentences with phrase «where real lawyers»

It's time for a fourth wave of blogging where real lawyers write about real stuff for real.

Not exact matches

Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.

Here's a summary of where some of Shafran's current contributions come from (total = $ 58,802): Political / Elected Officials / Candidates / Government $ 9,890 Donald Manes Associates and Intermediaries $ 4,200 Lobbyists (they show up on the NYC Lobbyist search) $ 1,500 Unions $ 8,450 Real Estate / Developers / Construction $ 4,275 Lawyers $ 1,675 Employees of: Epoch Times $ 1,850 Union Plaza Nursing Home $ 1,350 Parker Jewish Institute $ 800

Research on men in different occupations has shown how those occupations where their a real contest going on, or hard physical work, such as the military, trial lawyers, and construction workers experience higher testosterone levels than men in more sedate occupations.

«These days more and more builders are offering buyers a two - day period where they can seek legal advice before the contract becomes binding,» explains real estate lawyer Sheldon Silverman.

When TechCrunch asked the reason for the delay, the company responded that «it took us a while to come up with a complete Class Action case repository where affected people can... be in touch with Class Action lawyers in real time.»

Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered, where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since 2002.

At the very least, lawyers must make a real effort to understand the technology they use, to employ all available security measures and understand where the technology's weaknesses lie.

Moreover, if these and / or any tax liabilities remain unclear, a real estate lawyer will often request that a seller agrees to cap the overall closing cost so that buyers know exactly where they stand financially.

It's a new type of fraud aimed at lawyers where the hackers intercept emails between real estate attorneys and their clients and then use the information obtained from the emails to steal closing funds.

Lawyers Real Estate creates a one - stop shopping experience where a lawyer displaces the real estate agent entirely and also provides the legal advice and assistance required to take the sale from listing to closReal Estate creates a one - stop shopping experience where a lawyer displaces the real estate agent entirely and also provides the legal advice and assistance required to take the sale from listing to closreal estate agent entirely and also provides the legal advice and assistance required to take the sale from listing to closing.

While it has all the functions of other social networks, my focus is not on building a social network for lawyers, but on building a real community where legal professionals can interact, network, ask questions, look for jobs, and pretty much do whatever they want without having to earn any points or pay any money.

And in some places it does function not badly — e.g., in real estate services here where there is a flat price and a great deal of ability to identify which lawyer will provide the appropriate price: service ratio.

(See my post «How the Legal Industry's Pursuit of Leverage Pits the Client's Interests Against Those of the Law Firm» — where I recount my chief financial officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate group!)

They also constitute a red flag for lawyers involved in the conveyancing of residential real estate where tenancies are in place or anticipated.

For real estate purchases where clients are assuming existing tenancies, lawyers should review whether utility costs are already included in the rents and advise their clients of the inability to raise the rent if utility prices increase.

However, real estate claims based on the registration of fraudulent instruments under the Land Titles Act where the claim would otherwise be excluded from coverage due to the dishonesty of the insured lawyer — the risk targeted by the Real Estate Practice Coverage Option (REPCO)-- have turned out to be rreal estate claims based on the registration of fraudulent instruments under the Land Titles Act where the claim would otherwise be excluded from coverage due to the dishonesty of the insured lawyer — the risk targeted by the Real Estate Practice Coverage Option (REPCO)-- have turned out to be rReal Estate Practice Coverage Option (REPCO)-- have turned out to be rare.

He has also been a practicing lawyer, in small firms, where he mostly focused on personal injury, real estate and disability law.

The email will include links to a real law firm's website, where there will be information on the lawyer who allegedly sent the email.

In the next 1 - 5 years, I think natural language processing is going to really start identify where human lawyers provide real value.

In the past year or so, I have seen frauds perpetrated where a hacker hacked into a client's email account and waited until the opportune time (just as a real estate deal closed) to send instructions to the lawyer... [more]

This might be possible to maintain if there is a real desire to do so, as it seems that lawyers as a community have the potential to decide to a great degree what kinds of practice they want to have, this is especially true of lawyers in private practice who can choose how their offices are run and who, in many cases, have an ownership stake in the organizations where they work.

When lawyers think about real estate fraud, they tend to think about fake clients with forged ID obtaining fraudulent mortgages, or flip frauds where the value of a property is artificially inflated.

From 1998 to 2008, served as Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Real Estate Section Pro Bono Committee, which created and operates the highly regarded Lawyer for the Day Program at the Boston Housing Court (where volunteer lawyers advise unrepresented individuals with evictions and eviction defenses).

One of the main reasons given by Lord Clarke for not always enforcing the black letter terms of written employment contracts was taken from the decision of Elias J in the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Consistent Group: «The concern to which tribunals must be alive is that armies of lawyers will simply place substitution clauses, or clauses denying any obligation to accept or provide work in employment contracts, as a matter of form, even where such terms do not begin to reflect the real relationship.»

So the real growth area right now, to my mind, is in lawyer training and professional development roles that can help lawyers apply their talents to new skill sets and situations where demand should be significant.

Fantastic opportunity for an ambitious senior real estate lawyer to join an expanding team where there is room for progression [more]

Join Sidney Troister on May 12th at the CCLA's 24th East Region Solicitors Conference where he will be speaking on the topic of Problems on Closing — dealing with closing day issues, which will include what lawyers can and should do when real estate transactions get into trouble and may not close.

At the Canadian Legal Conference in St. John's in August 2006, the Canadian Bar Association's Young Lawyers brought together a panel of experts to discuss the current «work life balance» situation at law firms, successful practices already in place to address the issue, and a real - life example of a law firm where recruitment and retention issues have virtually disappeared following the introduction of «balanced» policies.

So he acted and sounded like a real lawyer and except for the stupidity of practicing while inactive in the only state where he had been admitted, he could have fooled anyone.

Seth is a lawyer in our Commercial Real Estate Group, where his practice focuses on the acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing and development of commercial and residential real estate, as well as mortgage enforcement, realization and remedReal Estate Group, where his practice focuses on the acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing and development of commercial and residential real estate, as well as mortgage enforcement, realization and remedreal estate, as well as mortgage enforcement, realization and remedies.

And I also think as a legal industry unlike other industries where Artificial Intelligence is more of a threat, you look at transportation and I think there's going to be some real questions there as to what AI and its effects are, but in law, you have the majority of people, who need a lawyer not being able to afford it, and so I think there's this huge leading market and I actually think AI could end up allowing lawyers to do more work being more profitable as a law firm, and I think most importantly, helping further access to justice in that process.

May 21, 2014 Perhaps because my perch is as a real estate transactional lawyer based in San Francisco, where the rate of office space -LSB-...]

we see them most commonly in busy real estate practices, where rushed lawyers miss deficiencies in a condo status certificate, misread a survey, or don't find out what long - term plans a client may have for a property (so that they can ensure those plans are viable).

Lucent Law's Forms & Essentialssm combines the convenience and affordable pricing of the form sellers with the knowledge, expertise, and follow - through of real lawyers licensed to practice in the states where the documents will be used and the services provided.

My departure was greatly assisted by the lawyer at the client, who worked to have his company consent to my joining a firm where there would otherwise have been a serious conflicts problem; I know he understood why I was leaving, and I know he had to make real efforts internally to get that result.

In the past year or so, I have seen frauds perpetrated where a hacker hacked into a client's email account and waited until the opportune time (just as a real estate deal closed) to send instructions to the lawyer (pretending to be the client) on where to disburse funds; and a situation where a lawyer's email account was hacked and the hacker, pretending to be a lawyer, sent instructions to a client on where to send funds.

So where can you go to attempt to establish if you are dealing with a real lawyer that is in good standing?

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

The effort of lawyers to expand their monopoly on real estate closing services if, of course, a longstanding one and as the FTC reports in its submission, empirical evidence indicates that consumer real estate closings costs substantially more in states where lawyers are required to conduct the closing than in states that allow «lay closings,» with no discernible change in quality.

We launched Foxwordy in 2014 with a mission to offer lawyers and legal professionals social productivity in the cloud, a place where they can come together with relevant top - tier colleagues across the entire legal market to effectively collaborate in real - time.

Watch this episode with real estate agent Joe Terceira, and Toronto family lawyer John Schuman where Schuman will discuss the topic of changing a support order.

Work Permits and Permanent Residence In Canada Watch this episode with real estate agent Joe Terceira, and Toronto immigration lawyer Asher Frankel where Frankel will discuss the topics of work permits and permanent residence in Canada.

One particularly fertile area for fraud is in the realm of real estate law, where in the past fraudsters have tried to bilk mortgagees and banks (and — by extension — their lawyers) out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through sham real estate transactions and mortgages registered against homes with falsely - inflated prices.

As noted in the comments, even in this scenario where nonlawyers are the primary beneficiaries of the changes, nonlawyers will still need to hire some (how many will they hire is the real question) subject matter expert lawyers to save time, money, and mistakes in producing the new systems.

Conversation assembly and automation involving chatbots, virtual assistant Q and A, «robo - lawyer» questions» where «The conversational instant messaging interface is able to provide users with information and generate a real - time document specific to a client's needs.

ALSs are charity — an insult to the taxpayer who pays for the justice system where lawyers work but can't give that taxpayer an affordable lawyer; see: «I Don't Want a Free Lawyer, I Want a Real Lawyer,» (the Lawyerist.com (November 14, 2016)-RRB-.

As opposed to «allowing» the use of retired lawyers where one party could be incurring substantial costs while the other incurs none - therefore having no real «incentive» to resolve the issue as it then just becomes about their time.

«Armies of lawyers will simply put substitution clauses, or clauses denying any obligation to accept or provide work, into employment contracts, as a matter of form, even where such terms do not begin to reflect the real relationship.»

Routine blurs memory: Where many months or years have passed since the work was done, these letters preserve details that might otherwise be lost to memory — especially if the lawyer handles matters that follow a predictable pattern (for example, real estate law, or the defence of traffic offences) in which the regular repetition of steps can make it easy to forget specifics.