Perhaps its the fantasy atmosphere of Dubai, but many attendees here are talking about whether the work of lawyers should be more expansive than client advice.
Many moons worth of work by legions of lawyers would be needed to make sense of and value this company.
One thing is certain: Big bankruptcies will continue to mean lots of work for some lawyers.
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Examiners raised the mark needed for a GCSE English C grade based on their judgement of the quality of the work, lawyers for the examiners have said.
Unlike most of those people, however, he still has enough money to employ lawyers to work on aspects of his case.
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Pattern-recognition software is used to do work previously accomplished by teams of lawyers.
But the internet and other tools could allow the average client to survey a much wider range of lawyers' past work and recommendations.
Some former government officials say stepping up regulatory scrutiny of lawyers for their work on cases snared in investigations by the SEC could send a chilling message.
Looked at from our perspective, new headline-making penalties on income are a form of Washington "stimulus" that give lawyers and accountants a great deal of lucrative work.
Now there are some who say, we don't have any right to ask questions about the work that lawyers have done on behalf of their clients.
The UTC was released in 2000 after six years of work by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws--a group of lawyers, judges, legislators and law professors that makes recommendations to the states on statutes covering such areas as contracts and family matters.
Johnson also offered to fall on his sword so that other lawyers could continue with the valuable work of getting to the bottom of the falsehoods and misstatements that led to such heavy losses for investors who are, as of today, down about 13% on Facebook stock.
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The going rate for temp attorneys in Manhattan has fallen amid the legal recession, which has left thousands of experienced lawyers and recent grads scrambling for work.
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The clients, who are now refusing to pay for the work of first year associates, are comfortable with these young lawyers, have established good working relationships with them and depend upon them.
Gone are the days when, if you or your husband wanted a divorce, the only thing to do was for each of you to retain lawyers who would then work through all the legal matters.
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Now, there will be some rich lawyers and dentists who are paying higher taxes while the far richer hedge fund and private equity moguls the lawyers and dentists work for will experience less of a tax hit.
Instead of praising those who do this important work, non-lawyers look down their noses at Legal Aid lawyers.
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Baker brought in an army of election lawyers from Washington, who went to work in a large conference room nearby, sharing a giant table as a desk and sitting on folding chairs.
It finds lawyers to work on contingency and pays 90% of litigants' other costs, including travel, expert witnesses and local counsel--in exchange for a lawyer-size fee: 30% to 50% of what's left after the lawyer takes his fee, perhaps 33% of a settlement.
Most tax lawyers would probably prefer to do other kinds of work than to help clients through collection problems with the IRS or state tax agencies.
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Subsidies, trade protections and other economic distortions accumulate, and resources increasingly flow to a specialised class of lawyers, bureaucrats and lobbyists who know how to work the system.
Increased use of prenuptial agreements sounds as though it means yet more lucrative work for lawyers.
Many of these people found work as day laborers, but their children became doctors, lawyers and entrepreneurs.
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What of the full-trained accountants, lawyers and bankers who live and work in these havens and allow such funds to be passed through?
American plaintiffs usually avoid having to pay anything to sue, since lawyers generally agree to work for free, in exchange for a share of any damages.
Critics of the asbestos-trust system point to examples like the Kananian case in Ohio, where lawyers were sanctioned for submitting conflicting work histories to multiple trusts on behalf of a man who died of mesothelioma, which is usually attributed to asbestos.
Most people want to make sure their doctors and lawyers have the proper credentials to work, but should the same be expected of fortune tellers and florists?
On the plaintiff side, class-action lawyers have an incentive to hire inexpensive contract attorneys, work them for thousands of hours, and present those hours to the court at a much higher price as justification for their fees, which a judge must approve.
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Lawfirms are usually fairly traditionally run organizations: staff lawyers have an expertise, perform the work and bill clients or take a cut of the judgment.
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But it only started work in January, and it will not have its full complement of some 60 investigators and 30 lawyers until the middle of this year.
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