"It is possible that the higher levels of Chapter 13 in communities of color can be explained by a combination of higher attorney's fees and a filer's desire, or advice that elevates a filer's desire, to preserve as many assets as possible".
Three times, he has tried for higher office — attorney general once, governor twice — but he has never won an election beyond Oakland's borders.
With all due respect to Goldman and its high-priced attorneys, it wasn't a hostile media that upended this plan.
He had a civilian support group ("Hands Off!") and high-profile attorneys and had questioned the authority of corporals like myself.
The boy had an unexpectedly youthful-sounding, nasally Midwestern accent, the kind I'd been hearing in St . Louisthat week, although it had been high-priced attorneys who were speaking it.
"You don't have to stretch to find rich or poor defendants, high-powered attorneys or sleazy defense lawyers, fantastic judges or judges with odd personality quirks," he continued.
While there are ways to use US shell companies fraudulently, most of us would have a hard time doing it without paying big bucks for the assistance of high-priced attorneys.
Pit that lawyer against a team of high-powered attorneys with their accompanying "expert" witnesses, investigators, scientific tests, gloves and all, and someone who relies upon the Sixth Amendment doesn't stand a chance.
Of course, the richer people are, the more likely they are to have a battery of high-powered attorneys guiding their every move through the tax minefield.
The little guys, the Haitians and Dominicans who can't afford high-priced attorneys, must content themselves with leaving chicken parts and cracked eggs and other invocations of their voodoo and Santeria gods on the steps of the Courthouse.
They will deploy consultants to find the winning elements of, say, an after-school program that keeps kids out of trouble by pairing them with volunteers from the working world, like high-powered attorneys who run mock trials.
