Sentences with phrase «working lives of lawyers»

Aylwin notes that the prevalence of hourly billing has also, over the past 50 years, had profoundly negative effects on the working lives of lawyers.

«We believe Legal AI will eventually become an integrated (and invisible) part of the working life of a lawyer, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively in support of their clients,» Waisberg added.

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From an investment point of view, however, I think it makes more sense to pay lawyers to work at that stage of the company's life (where it appears there is a company) than at the seed stage.

For example we will only work with agencies / lawyers that offer lifetime counseling to birth parents because we realize the consequences of adoption will be life long for them.

Jane Golding is chair of British in Europe, a coalition of grassroots groups representing around 35,000 UK nationals living on the continent, as well as a practicing lawyer who lives in Germany and works across the EU.

But work - life - training balance still remained elusive: «My phone could be counted on to ring repeatedly with urgent business matters while I was out on the bike or trail, forcing me to pull up and sit in the dirt for sometimes upward of an hour to hash out deal points with talent agents and lawyers on a client's movie deal.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Out - of - work actor Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and driven lawyer Dave (Jason Bateman) find themselves living each other's lives when they aren't careful what they wish for.

Willis and Norton also shine, mixing some pathos with pure hilarity, while Murray (who worked with Anderson in «The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou») and McDormant as feuding married lawyers are not on screen long enough to really make much of a difference, but are effective in their small roles.

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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.

The Truth About Youth briefly flickers to life when Loy comes on slinky nightclub singer «The Firefly,» seducing Young's betrothed, and she steals the show in The Naughty Flirt (1931), another tale of high - society bad behavior, this one starring Alice White as a brazen socialite who sets her sights on a young lawyer's in papa's firm and Loy as a party girl working with a gigolo to grab her fortune.

What Is Life Worth is an Erin Brockovich / Spotlight - type story of Ken Feinberg, a powerful insider D.C. lawyer put in charge of the 9/11 Fund, who in almost 3 years of pro bono work on the case, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy and politics associated with administering government funds and in doing so, discovers what life is woLife Worth is an Erin Brockovich / Spotlight - type story of Ken Feinberg, a powerful insider D.C. lawyer put in charge of the 9/11 Fund, who in almost 3 years of pro bono work on the case, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy and politics associated with administering government funds and in doing so, discovers what life is wolife is worth.

When someone needs a doctor to save their child's life; or a lawyer to handle an important legal issue; or wants the products of good engineering, such as clean water to drink, town or city infrastructure that works, transportation that is reliable, or digital technologies that make life easier and more enjoyable, they rarely connect those things to higher education.

For example, Sarah Judd, a lawyer with the Vermont Forum on Sprawl who developed the Healthy Kids, Healthy Neighborhoods Program, benefits by understanding what's important in the education world — it's good for the community to understand what schools are dealing with, what the responsibilities of an educator are, and how teachers are expected to «raise 25 kids» to be responsible adults — often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.»

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

Vincent Calvino, protagonist of Christopher G. Moore's atmospheric Paying Back Jack, works at the fringes of the aforementioned groups, a disbarred lawyer scratching out a living as...

Very few traditionally - published authors make their living solely on the basis of what they publish, at least initially (and this is especially true of fiction writers, many of whom write their first novels while working as teachers, lawyers, or other professionals).

At this time, the company's founder — who was also a Supreme Court Justice and a Boston lawyer — Louis D. Brandeis, decided to become a strong advocate for trustworthy and affordable life insurance protection for those who were in the working class.He was a vital person in passing the Acts of 1907, which let banks be incorporated under Massachusetts law.

«Jeena Cho and Jeff Curl are two of the best attorney's I've ever met, and this is after having worked around corporate lawyers most of my young life in business.»

My concern is, many Realtors are just trying to make a living wage right now, there have got to be just as many Lawyers out there looking for the next great opportunity... I really believe it is going to be the unfortunate Realtors that regardless of how well (or poorly) they performed on the short sale, that are going to get sued because the Seller will have get some sort of financial demand down the road and will have long forgotten all of the hard work and disclosing the Realtor did on their behalf during the short sale process.

Client reviews are one of the best ways to ensure that your working with a trusted team of lawyers that'll be able to help you get through this difficult time in your life and get you the bankruptcy help that you deserve.

The BBC is working on a film about the real - life saga of Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto and the years of public criticism by U.S. lawyer Jack Thompson, and well - known actors Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton have signed on for it.

Relying on the skills of your paralegal can drastically improve your work life as a lawyer.

But all work and no play makes lawyers dull, and your family and friends have likely tired of you explaining how Remember the Milk changed your life.

A new website launched today, Attorney at Work, has the mission of delivering «one really good idea every day» for lawyers «who want help and inspiration building successful practices and balanced lives.»

In a new post today, he describes how the firm's 60 first - year lawyers came out of a summer associate program and era that now seems quite foreign, where warnings of the crush of work and the lack of any «work - life balance» awaiting them were common.

But the broader challenge for many firms is less strategic and more immediate: getting their lawyers to adopt current technological changes and fully integrate new technologies into the daily processes of their working lives.

These days, most lawyers are forever in search of that elusive work - life balance.

Over at Idealawg, Stephanie West Allen plays host to a robust debate over whether Generation Y lawyers — or «millennials,» lawyers under 30 — who seek work / life balance to the exclusion of focusing on client needs are unrealistic slackers or serious professionals with different priorities than previous generations.

For those parents - to - be who want to ensure that their children's lives are saddled with crushing debt and filled with 90 - hour work weeks reviewing irrelevant emails in a windowless room on the 22nd floor of a New York office building, Conrad Saam, head of marketing for the controversial «lawyer rating» site Avvo, has done a «groundbreaking new study on lawyer's [sic] names over the past 200 years.»

This could be part and parcel of the work - life balance thing, but people in remote and rural areas are having problems accessing lawyers or they can access the lawyer but there's a conflict because that lawyer acted against your wife or husband.

«Lawyers have a number of attributes — good training, good understanding of the law, good ability to communicate with people, a fairly thick skin, used to a bit of the rough - and - tumble of life — and of all of those things, a very good understanding of how people work,» Anton said.

As an car accident lawyer and a former tractor trailer insurance defense lawyer, I have worked around fatality car accidents for most of my professional life.

Having the right lawyer working for you will improve the likelihood of a fair recovery that fully compensates you for damages to your finances and your quality of life.

Working with a catastrophic injury lawyer to obtain a settlement can provide the victim of a spinal cord injury and their loved ones affected by it the financial compensation deserved for the devastation of the life - altering injury they sustained.

In this week's edition of Things I Wish I Knew, New York solo lawyer Joleena Louis gives us an update on her ability to improve her work - life integration and create more personal time.

At Jurdem, LLC, our Boulder record sealing lawyers understand the impact that a criminal record can have on someone's life and we work diligently to make sure that all aspects of your criminal record are clean including arrest records.

YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

But as discussed above, to get the full - time attention of those lawyers, even with great work - life balance, you still have to pony up in amounts virtually no true startup can afford.

In other words, the traditional law firm operating under the traditional law firm business model is an inhospitable place for many, many lawyers — a place where their success depends not upon their skills as a lawyer but upon their abilities in areas in which they have no training, interest or aptitude, as well as upon their gender and the color of their skin; a place that requires them to sacrifice their personal lives; a place where they do not feel valued or fulfilled in their work; a place and where opportunities are denied to them and only a very small number can reach positions of success.

There is an entire infrastructure of service teams working extremely hard to make our lives as lawyers easier.

Tools like cloud - based time and billing software for lawyers give attorneys the power to take control of their work - life balance.

The team at Mann Lawyers works with the appropriate experts to determine the full value of the financial support that the loved one would have provided to the rest of the family, taking into account the individual's occupation and life path.

Lawyers who avoid nonproductive commutes by working at home or in nearby suburban satellite offices would either have a higher quality of life or be able to bill more hours.

Each year, BNC sends ballot notices to every member of the N.C. State Bar living in North Carolina — asking each a simple question: Of the Tar Heel lawyers whose work you have observed firsthand, whom would you rate among the current best in these categorieof the N.C. State Bar living in North Carolina — asking each a simple question: Of the Tar Heel lawyers whose work you have observed firsthand, whom would you rate among the current best in these categorieOf the Tar Heel lawyers whose work you have observed firsthand, whom would you rate among the current best in these categories?

Whether you are suffering from the physical or psychological results of a motor vehicle accident, a fall, or a hazardous situation, contact a lawyer at LK Law to see how we can work together to improve your quality of life.

-LSB-...] Even those living in poverty, who are eligible for civil legal aid, often are unable to obtain assistance: the Legal Services Corporation estimated that in 2009, half of those seeking assistance from LSC - funded services were turned away -LSB-...] As for pro bono work: American lawyers average about 30 hours of pro bono work per year.

Individualized career counseling to lawyers seeking success in their workplace includes such issues as career focus, work / life balance issues, networking and rainmaking — as well as how to assess the pros and cons of a career move and how to maximize career potential.