The two primary reasons for miscommunications between counsel and client are the concept of legal relevance and corporate decisions to keep trial counsel in the dark about settlement strategy.
The court also seemed to be calling on judges to demand more information about settlement procedures before approving fees, or even withholding approval of fees until the claims have been administered.
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Sources tell TIME that the Jones team has put out quiet feelers to see whether Clinton might want to talk again about settlement, only to find that the President may want a trial after all.
George Bush's administration, which made periodic but mealy-mouthed complaints to Mr Sharon and then Mr Olmert about settlement-building, objected more vigorously to Israel's fencing in the more salient of the blocks, at Ariel and Maale Adumim, which is why the barrier round these areas is incomplete.
No details about the settlement or how it was reached were immediately revealed.
On one hand, such a move would demonstrate to the region that he is committed to bringing about a settlement.
Mr Sargeant also made numerous references about the settlement for councils in Wales being far better than for local authorities in England.
States members were invited to a confidential briefing about the settlement, but the amount was not revealed to the 20 politicians who attended.
The Cypriot media are also vociferously sceptical about the settlement talks.
Yet even though the top cop negotiating the settlement is headquartered in the state where Republican candidates are frantically campaigning, none of them, apparently, has uttered a word about the settlement.
Among other things, Netanyahu spoke for the first time about "settlement blocs, " and so signaled that he would be willing to evacuate the more isolated Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
No wonder that, in the current antitrust case, the Department of Justice is nervous about a settlement or a remedy that falls short of a break-up (an option that seems increasingly unlikely).
Despite Mr Klein's misgivings, Microsoft could bring about a settlement if it took the initiative by volunteering to break itself up, perhaps into an applications company and two or three competing operating-systems companies.
She was also questioned about a settlement she received from JCPenney and Tower Records, after she claimed the store's security guards assaulted her, her husband and her two sons in a parking lot in 1998.
It should also make the Winklevoss twins think twice about appealing their settlement with Facebook.
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In other cases, there can be legitimate debate about whether the settlement demanded by the SEC was fair.
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What about if a settlement is reached between NFL owners and players?
What is really amazing about the RBS settlement is that, for once, a bank is making the actual traders who committed the fraud pay.
Liesel and Matthew have so far been thwarted in their efforts to learn about the family settlement agreement, which the trial judge has refused to let them see, citing the family's privacy interests.
Here is an excerpt from what the government had to say about the case and settlement.
The pyramid was the center of a settlement of about 40, 000 people and 81 buildings over 12 square miles, according to 7NewsBelize.
Concentrating on such practical matters would also enable it to leave the really difficult questions about a new constitutional settlement for a later date.
All of this means that if or when a settlement comes about, gold is likely to suffer some kind of a temporary correction lower, they say.
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Anyway, most of them fret more about improving clearing and settlement in Europe, which is much more expensive than in America and so offers greater scope for savings.
The sooner we become serious about making a realistic settlement that will give the various peoples of this unhappy, shattered area the opportunity to live peaceably again, the better.
She is, for instance, about to finalise a settlement with Microsoft that many describe as disappointing, given how tough she has been with the world's biggest software firm in recent years.
The defense also shed doubts about a 1998 civil settlement the family received from JCPenney, and whether the mother's bruises were inflicted by security guards, as she claimed, or her abusive ex-husband.
He said a settlement at nearby Durrington Walls had about 1, 000 homes, the "largest Neolithic settlement in the whole of northern Europe".
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There has been sufficient political grandstanding about the robo-signing settlement to last a lifetime of Sunday news shows.
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