Sentence examples for lawyer class from inspiring English sources

The majority decision, he wrote, reflected "the views and values of the lawyer class from which the court's members are drawn".

Many of his lines about judicial "oligarchs" and the dictatorship of the "lawyer class" echo those heard in Southern statehouses in the fifties and sixties.

Any measure in consequence that would divide the Bengali-speaking population; that would permit independent centres of activity and influence to grow up; that would dethrone Calcutta from its place as the centre of successful intrigue, or that would weaken the influence of the lawyer class, who have the entire organization in their hands, is intensely and hotly resented by them.

In an economy where lawyers pursue the interests of the clients who are paying them, rather than any abstract concept of justice, it is not difficult to see whose interests will be attended to by the lawyer class.

For securities plaintiff lawyers, class actions are where the money is.

Class actions for injunctive relief are less lucrative to plaintiffs and their lawyers than class actions that also seek back pay.

Greg Gable, a Schwab spokesman, said in an e-mail that class-action suits "are grindingly slow" and mainly benefited lawyers, not class members.

FOR Christopher Lovell, a New York lawyer, the class-action lawsuit boom of 2001 began with an after-hours phone call in January from Howard Sirota, another lawyer.

Cases can move more swiftly through state courts since there are no time-consuming battles among lawyers over who will be named lead lawyer for class-action suits.

Defense lawyers favor class- action settlements because such settlements are typically cheaper than going to trial.

"It's a very, very significant case in terms of the implications for both domestic and foreign companies that do business in the United States," says Paul T. Gallagher Paul T. Gallagher, the plaintiffs' lawyer, from class-action powerhouse Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll.