How much control lawyers have over the specialisation process varies and may depend on the type and size of firm they joined as trainees and which practice areas they experienced during training.
Moments before Mr. Suharto was scheduled to appear before the court to answer charges that he siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars for his own use through charitable organizations under his control, lawyers for the 79-year-old former president said he was too ill to attend the hearing.
NextWave Telecom settled a dispute with the United States government over wireless spectrum licenses that the company controlled, lawyers told a bankruptcy judge yesterday.
Bamberger argued, and a judge agreed, that the sales contract assigned control of Lawyer Ron to the estate until the colt finished third or worse in two consecutive races — something he had not done.
"I thought, well, everybody likes money, so how about I just offer drug addicts money to use birth control?" A lawyer from the Los Angeles children's court gave Harris her first donation – $400 – and she put up some posters around LA and Orange County, where she was living.
Litigation finance, properly understood, can help individuals and small businesses regain control from lawyers and powerful defendants.
The Internet makes a new and higher degree of control possible; lawyers can monitor postings on Web sites as they cannot in, say, dorm rooms (we hope).
So while board officials say Judge Fisher's change would undercut their control, the lawyers argued that it would be quicker to have the judges settle any fight on the spot than to go through the normal board procedures.
Euphemistically known as "ruanjin," or soft detention, Mr. Chen's house arrest is an increasingly common tactic employed by the Chinese authorities as they seek to extend their control over lawyers, democracy activists and underground church leaders who refuse to bend to their will, human rights advocates say.
She also wrapped two films to be released later this year — one in France, "Et Si On Vivait Tous Ensemble?," directed by Stéphane Robelin, and one in the States, "Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding," directed by Bruce Beresford, which stars Catherine Keener as a harried, controlling New York lawyer, whose freewheeling mother worships the moon and sells grass out of her home near Woodstock.
