Sentence examples for on solicitors from inspiring English sources

MacManus has lost the £715.60 he paid for his ticket to Johannesburg, and has spent more than he can afford on solicitors' fees.

The report points out leading law firms have adopted a number of social-mobility programmes and the Solicitors Regulation Authority now collects data on solicitors' educational backgrounds.

Unfortunately, there seems to be growing government pressure on solicitors not to seek the best independent advice, but to engage in a bidding process for expert witnesses in which cost is the paramount concern.

Although a half-day strike by barristers last year was deemed effective, with the Government backing off from imposing further cuts to Bar fees, Mr Gove took the decision after his recent appointment to continue with the Grayling austerity regime on solicitors' legal aid fees.

The allegations it contains, which focus on solicitors rather than barristers, are juicy – "cocaine clubs" in the basement of a leading law firm, a drug-delivery service used by lawyers at all the major London firms and a partner who "spanked £100,000 on cocaine in one year" – but ultimately they're nothing more than anonymous anecdotes.

The list appeals to people like the Buffalo retiree fed up with phone pitches to subscribe to a newspaper he already receives, the woman in central Pennsylvania who hates being disturbed when she is baking, and a Denver-area homeowner who sometimes just hangs up on solicitors hawking home refinance services during dinnertime.

The point was not lost on Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., who concluded his defense of the law at the court this week with remarks aimed squarely at Justice Kennedy.

After spending eight years fighting for her share of her marital home she received a £43,000 settlement in 2004 – £36,000 of which went on solicitor's fees.

He said it was unfair for anyone to blame the tough questions from the justices on Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., who was criticized earlier in the week for not presenting the government's case as powerfully as some had hoped.

Still, there is something about the Rob and Helen dynamic that seems different and more nuanced than, say, the racist attack on solicitor Usha Gupta in 1995, or the torching of the Brookfield barn as part of a witness intimidation exercise by Susan Carter's ne'er-do-well brother.

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