Sentences with phrase «years as a lawyer»

Akufo - Addo stayed in France for three years as a lawyer at the now - defunct New York - based international law firm Coudert Brothers.

Even before coming to Harvard, during her years as a lawyer, she worked in LGBT rights as cochair of the New York City Bar Association's LGBT Rights Committee and conducted LGBT - related pro bono work as an attorney.

In my many years as a lawyer I saw many industries which attracted groups of specialised lawyers.

Born into a family of artists but opting to study law at Rome University — after which he practised for nine years as a lawyer — from 1935 he worked as a freelance photographer in the pleasant seaside town and port, Senigallia, on Italy's Adriatic coast, north of Ancona, in the Marche region.

Politicians appear to have a deeply entrenched belief (during my 50 + years as a lawyer) that there are no votes to be gained by improving the justice system.

And it's not just something to fill in the time of a man who has already spent 42 years as a lawyer and judge.

Now after 28 years as a lawyer, 25 medical malpractice jury trials, and countless other trials and hearings, the thrill of the court room still stays with him.

Great article Omar — as someone who very unexpectedly dived into sole practice for my first year as a lawyer, I can attest that it was both more creative and more rewarding than I could have imagined.

Todd Tenge is widely respected by clients and peers in the legal community as one of the state's top personal injury attorneys, and he has a long record of successfully recovering compensation for truck accident victims during his twenty plus years as a lawyer.

After six years as a lawyer, I switched gears and co-founded a merino wool children's wear company called Chasing Windmills.

Our team has learnt a massive amount about tech business over the years as lawyers, directors and investors.

In her story, Legal Aid was Leader's Mission of Faith, The Tennessean reporter Sheila Burke tells of Ashley Wiltshire, who retired Friday after 37 years as a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands — and more than 30 years as the organization's executive director.

Thinking back to your first years as a lawyer, as a spouse, or as a parent can be a powerful reminder that life changes involve a process of growing into a new role.

After his studies he worked for several years as a lawyer in EU - law and competition law.

In his nearly 20 years as a lawyer, Levi Williams has assisted in the successful sale of numerous multimillion - dollar companies.

It relates my 51 years as a lawyer, dealing with the justice system.

In more than 20 years as a lawyer, Lorelei has represented numerous corporate and individual clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts, before state and federal administrative agencies, and in arbitration proceedings.

But my legal education — in the classroom, in clinical work, in my first years as a lawyer and even continuing still — invested me with invaluable knowledge and skills, useful in whatever I do.

Before joining CPBO, Graving worked for more than nine years as a lawyer at Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C., where she oversaw the firm's partnership with The List Project, a nonprofit that works to help Iraqis imperiled due to their work with the U.S..

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Before joining CPBO, Runyon worked for more than five years as a lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom in Washington, D.C., where she represented major U.S. electric, gas, and pipeline companies in matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and federal and state courts.

I then talk about how almost every lawyer I know just fell into / morphed into their practice area after many years as lawyers.

Over more than 17 years as a lawyer, I have learned that not every trial ends in an acquittal, not every story has a happy ending.

Most leave after spending about five to seven years as a lawyer, before they make partner.

In his early years as a lawyer, he traveled to South Dakota where he was a staff attorney on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations.

Prior to co-founding Radiant Law, he worked for several years as a lawyer on technology deals and business process outsourcing deals.

The forty of my 51 years as a lawyer spent as a criminal lawyer of all appropriate types, plus related writings then and since, prove to me that governments believe that, «there are no votes in justice,» i.e., there are no votes to be gained by spending money on the justice system.

Not exact matches

As a result, a new job has risen to the top this year: lawyer.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

«I think there's some lag with the FEC catching up with the times,» says political lawyer Troy McCurry, who served as counsel to the FEC's Republican commissioners at times from 2010 until this year.

• 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.»

SPECIAL REPORT: There has been a flurry of high - profile moves by senior lawyers in Perth as the sector readies for a pick - up from several quiet years.

This was the total of her billable hours for an entire year when she worked as a lawyer.

So they listened as a dozen lawyers debated whether records of conversations the two men had had with another group of lawyers years earlier could be used against them at their looming fraud trial.

It was wonderful to be his lawyer,» said Lesperance, a former Canadian border officer who has worked as an immigration lawyer for more than 25 years.

In 2010 and 2011, Avon spent nearly $ 100 million a year — a figure one FCPA lawyer described as «eye - popping.»

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

A Duke - educated lawyer, McCabe was named last year as the FBI's deputy director, the No. 2 position in the bureau, overseeing significant investigations and operations.

As a former lawyer, business leader and now president of Bentley University for the past seven years, I can say that based on my personal experience, this stereotype couldn't be further from the truth.

Businesses providing coverage must comply with the 90 - day waiting period limit that goes into effect next year, and to taxes associated with the ACA, among other regulations, according to Marathas, who suggests businesses get professionals to help them with the law, such as a «solid broker» and a lawyer who understand and take seriously the ACA.

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is potentially facing years in prison as federal agents look into payoffs to a pair of women who claim they had affairs with Trump before he won the White House.

An experienced biotechnology patent lawyer, Dr. Noonan brings more than 20 years of extensive work as a molecular biologist studying high - technology problems in serving the unique needs of his clients.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

Rounding out the management team is CEO Harold Hofer, a lawyer who has participated in real estate transactions, as a principal and as a broker, valued in excess of $ 2 billion in his 30 - year real estate.

These days there are many lawyers that will do equity deals cheaply as long is it is a standardized, simplified term sheet, early stage, no serious investor / management debates, limited IP / customers / due diligence and as long as they perceive you as a «hot» company that's likely to need legal services for many years ahead.

Her other work experience prior to joining JAFCO Asia includes more than 3 years as a corporate lawyer with the Corporate Department of Allen & Gledhill.

According to the report, the incident took place earlier this year in Surat, which is known as the industrial town of Gujarat, when eight policemen of Amreli district's local crime branch unit and a lawyer abducted a real - estate businessman Shailesh Bhatt to a farmhouse in Gandhinagar.

It took me five years of working as a lawyer to build up my nest egg.

With over 25 years of experience as a lawyer, Mr. McCourt has conducted numerous trials and has appeared at all levels of Alberta Courts (Provincial Court, Queen's Bench and Court of Appeal) as well as the Federal Court of Canada.