Sentences with phrase «worked by lawyers»

According to the 2017 Report on the State of the Legal Market, by the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center, the average billable hours worked by all lawyers has declined from 134 hours per month in 2007 to 122 hours per month through late 2016.

But the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by Georgetown Law School and Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor defines «law firm productivity» as «the number of billable hours worked by lawyers divided by the total number of lawyers».

The [2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by Georgetown Law School and Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor] defines «law firm productivity» as «the number of billable hours worked by lawyers divided by the total number of lawyers.»

It was a judicial review, worked by lawyers acting pro bono, which ended the policy.

He noted that Lippman put $ 55 million in this year's judiciary budget to help support legal services while judicial officials have taken steps to increase pro bono work by lawyers.

The statistics for work production may consist of such records as fees produced or total hours; the hours worked by each lawyer, pro-rated against the final fee; the time - dollar value of the assisting lawyer without regard to the total fee; or an estimate of the value of the effort contributed by each lawyer to the matter.

Most of the people or companies that create AI systems will expect to be compensated for their work by lawyers or others that are using their products, and other non-profits for non-commercial use -LRB-(A2J Author is available free to interested court, legal services organizations).

In my ABA Journal article, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman makes this very point: «Even with whatever success we've had with public funding of legal services and pro bono work by lawyers, there is still a gaping hole in our system of providing legal services to the poor and people of limited means.»

Law Society president, Andrew Caplen, says: «The Bill would stop judges from granting PCOs until permission is granted, a stage which in itself requires intensive up - front work by lawyers which incurs costs.

Over at JD Bliss, Steve Imparl highlights one of the silver linings in the otherwise cloudy economy: an increase in pro bono work by lawyers.

The statistic for work production may consist of such records as fee producing or total hours; the time - dollar value of these hours; prorating the hours worked by each lawyer against the final fee; the time - dollar value of the assisting lawyer without regard to the total fee; or simply a guess of the value of effort contributed by each lawyer to the matter.

At a Federalist Society event this week in Rochester, N.Y., he argued that pro bono work by lawyers is «antisocial» and «self - serving.»

A judicial attempt to provide legal services paid for by HMCTS has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in re K & H (Children)[2015] EWCA Civ 543, [2015] All ER (D) 230 (May), so the individuals will either plod on, aided if possible by the court staff, the judge and pro bono work by lawyers.

The Rand report explained that case management tends to increase rather than reduce costs because it generates more work by lawyers.

[5] Paragraph (c)(2) defines the duty of a partner or other lawyer having comparable managerial authority in a law firm, as well as a lawyer who has direct supervisory authority over performance of specific legal work by another lawyer.

Not exact matches

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«The fact that you have a bankruptcy where the only asset that it owns goes up by 5,000 %, that's pretty unprecedented,» says Daniel Kelman, a lawyer and Mt. Gox creditor who spent a year in Tokyo working on the case.

Women walk by a team of volunteer lawyers in their makeshift office working to assist travelers detained as part of Donald Trump's travel ban in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

Those who think the SEC will approve the ETF point to the skillful work carried out by the Winklevoss lawyers, and to the fact that bitcoin is far more mainstream than it was even two years ago.

The confusing stance comes as the Federal Communications Commission under new chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon (vz) lawyer appointed by President Trump to head the agency, is working to roll back the rules.

Clients pay between $ 3,500 and $ 15,000 per family to use the service, and Crosby plans to open up a second revenue stream this fall by licensing the Wevorce software to lawyers, counselors and accountants — professionals who currently work for the company as independent contractors.

Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

«If I were her lawyer, I would get a domestic - violence restraining order and work it out by settlement agreement,» Johnstone said.

Forde also explains how the blockchain could replace some repetitive work done by lawyers, insurance companies, and bankers and how the blockchain could usher in a new era of digital rights management that could change the music and media industry.

Matt said career options can range from working directly with animals to less hands - on — but still very important — endeavors, including lawyers and lobbyists who help animals by writing animal protection laws and lobbying their legislators to get them passed.

Matthew Leib, a former New Yorker intern, and Lauren Ballinger, who worked at W Magazine, are represented by the same lawyers in both the Black Swan suit against Fox Entertainment and former interns at Hearst's Harpers» Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.

They also spoke by phone last Friday as their lawyers were working together to try to shield materials seized in the FBI raid.

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

«By then, the share of women going into the traditional fields of teaching, nursing, social work and clerical work declined, and more women were becoming doctors, lawyers, managers, and, yes, professors,» Yellen said.

A lawyer by profession, Mrs. Obama has worked in community and social settings.

«Law Scout was created by a team of lawyers and developers working together to improve the legal experience,» said Shane Murphy, Co-Founder, Law Scout.

The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. in 2016 had deeper ties to the Kremlin than previously disclosed and worked with Russia's chief legal office, according to emails obtained by NBC News.

In Finland, the family counseling work was started by clergymen, but from the beginning was in cooperation with psychiatrists and lawyers.

clearly the Gay Gestapo is working overtime... they pulled out because they do nt want to be bullied in the court of public opinion and abused by the Gestapo lawyers... I personally have no respect for, sympathy for or interest in the Gay issues..

The Georgia formation group began by assuming the identities of the bankers, lawyers, doctors, and business executives who are in such evidence at the Community Church, successful professionals most of whom work in the Loop in downtown Chicago forty minutes away.

In working closely and personally with lawyers, I have come to see that they have been formed — by their legal education and even more by their years of professional work in the law — in a particular way of seeing and thinking that is distinctive to that profession.

The lawyers for Texas understood that the law worked by closing down personal choice and replacing private freedom with a uniform public rule.

I'm guessing that Sherman and Co. had discussed the issue in Vegas and they've surely been getting kept up to speed on the issue by their lawyers... and they do have them some serious lawyers... People actually DO want to work for them...

The lawyer for transfer quarterback Shea Patterson said last month a decision on Patterson's eligibility could be made by mid - to late - February, but CBSSports.com reported this week that an NCAA committee is working on a proposal that would remove a requirement for players to sit out a season after transferring, if they leave a program following a coaching change.

Recognized by clients and lawyers alike for his superior level of trial work, Cohen has been listed for the past three years as a Southern California «Super Lawyer» as chosen by his peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics magazine.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

By 3:43 p.m., as the lawyers worked things out outside of the courtroom, it looked like the wait was wearing on almost everyone.

But, 95 % + of the lawyers in the state use less than 10 % of the statutes by page length, on any regular basis, and I probably use only 10 % of the tax code and 5 % of the tax regulations despite having an extremely broad tax practice in terms of the variety of subjects I deal with compared to the average lawyer who does tax work.

The lawyers insisted «extensive searches» had taken place before adding: «No documents exist recording any work completed by Mr Mulcaire, monitoring of Mr Mulcaire's return of work, reporting structures or any persons for whom Mr Mulcaire provided information.»

At the same time as he held those two government jobs, he was the lawyer for the Industrial Development Agency (whose leadership was appointed by Mangano) and worked for Mangano's former law firm.

Instead, Venditto was willing to try to work out a «legal way» — evidenced by the seeking of lawyers» opinions — for the town to guarantee Singh's loans in order for him to make upgrades to the beach and golf course where he was a concessionaire, Agnifilo said.

«As a lawyer, lawmaker and activist, Eric has never wavered in his commitment to protecting consumers, working for quality jobs and taking on tough fights on behalf of the women and men of New York,» Ward continued in a statement released by Schneiderman's campaign.

The sprawling rehabilitation network created over five decades by the Rev. Peter Young is collapsing, and his lawyer is working to stave off state investigators attempting to get a criminal indictment from a nearly three - year probe of Young's organization.

The city lawyers said they should not have to testify at a grand jury because their work is covered by attorney - client privilege and therefore confidential.