Sentence examples for difference between lawyers from inspiring English sources

And the difference between lawyers and everyone else, of course, is that they make so much money that advisers are willing to do the work for them.

Anna Paquin plays a private-school girl who turns all Antigone and learns the difference between lawyers and prophets, and Lonergan has them both; his obsessive, relentless naturalism is itself an article of faith in the redemptive power of art to find transcendent, tragic grandeur in the stuff of the day.

Because of the size of the Tyco settlement fund, this percentage meant the difference between the lawyers getting $210 million and $464 million in fees.

That could be the difference between a lawyer and flight attendant.

Some of it is a difference of sympathies between lawyers who spend many hours with the accused and lawyers who do not – who, on the contrary, spend many hours with the grieving families of the victims.

To test that idea, the economists looked at the difference between private-sector lawyers, who have to woo clients, and public-sector lawyers, who do not.

"It is particularly absurd and threatening to conclude that differences in opinion between lawyers for Republicans and lawyers for the District put city officials 'in knowing and willful violation of the law.'".

The writer describes the difference between Paula Jones's lawyers' general inquiry into the President's sex life and the specific personal questions Starr is likely to ask the President when he testifies before the grand jury on August 17th.

"The difference between them [the lawyers] and an ambulance chaser is the fact that with an ambulance chaser, you at least assume that there's an ambulance and an injury," White said in a phone interview.

In addition to preaching the cardinal rule that a businessman has to keep his overhead low ("I had a desk with a phone in a shared one-room office," Mr. O'Malley said), his mentor taught him the critical difference between being a lawyer and being a traditional businessman: "A lawyer might have a hundred clients, but each client only has one lawyer," he said.

There's a difference between being a lawyer on a case and being a journalist looking into a case and it's something people like Janet Malcolm draw out really well in their writing.