As real estate lawyers and managing agents hastened to point out, a portion of these updates have already been written into agreements that have over the years been customized on a per-building (or per-lawyer) basis.
Fast forward to this past week where Donald J. Trump accuses noted federal judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of a conflict of interest because Judge Curiel was born in Indiana of Mexican heritage; that is Trump's (not his lawyers) only basis for Trump to state that Judge Curiel hates Trump, and because Trump is going to build a wall separating our country's southern border from Mexico.
Leonard F. Joy, the federal defender who oversees the Manhattan and Brooklyn offices, declined to comment on the Shahzad case, except to say he was uncomfortable that Mr. Shahzad had been held for so long without a lawyer on the basis that he had knowingly waived his rights.
Trolls, moreover, often use lawyers to represent them on a contingent-fee basis (lawyers get paid only when they win), allowing trolls to defer significant legal costs that manufacturers, who generally must pay high hourly fees, cannot.
Michael Attanasio, one of Clemens's lawyers, questioned the basis of the charges against Clemens, saying Congress had no right to investigate performance-enhancing drugs in baseball in the first place.
It's an issue encountered by contract lawyers on an almost daily basis (well, this contract lawyer anyway).
The tests were delayed, in part because Mr. Yantin's lawyer challenged their legal basis.
Now, in those states that explicitly or implicitly allow unbundling, people or businesses can hire a lawyer on a limited basis to help them fill out forms, to prepare documents, to coach them on how to present in court or to appear in court for one or two hearings.
"The majority of these injured plaintiffs couldn't afford to pay lawyers on an hourly basis," he said.
Her case has highlighted the issue of "moral crimes", which lawyers say have no basis in Afghan law.
But Mr. McGreevey's lawyers said they had never made a settlement offer, and had no intention of paying Mr. Cipel because his lawyers never revealed the basis of his complaint.
