Because the settlements are invariably bound by confidentiality agreements, it is impossible to calculate the precise amount lawyers earn in total.
While litigants understandably might want to keep the other side guessing about how much time and money they are devoting to a lawsuit, it is debatable whether raw cost records, devoid of any detail about the precise issues the lawyers were working on, can escape the state's rigorous open-records laws.
The law in this area is complicated and technical and it really is impossible to condense in a way that is both understandable to a non-lawyer and precise or accurate enough to satisfy a lawyer (read the judgment on the supreme court website; it will make your eyes water).
"I want to come to you," says Oliver, who at nearly five already boasts a lawyer's precise grasp of language.
The idea that society was composed of orders was given perhaps excessively precise form by the lawyer Charles Loyseau in his Traité des Ordres (1610), but it serves to stress the significance of precedence.
Indeed, the latter bank was given clear and precise warnings by its lawyers about the risks of accepting assurances in a letter from an alleged co-conspirator, a Swiss lawyer.
"If the defense lawyers are precise in asking an expert witness, 'Isn't it reasonable, doctor, to say from a scientific standpoint that these two people could have been murdered as late as 11 p.m.?' and if the doctor says, 'Yes,' then you have reasonable doubt," Levin said.
My hero is less a creator than curator, as well as a full-time litigator (well, mainly an office-based business and environmental lawyer, to be precise).
In the future, lawyers may write more precise plain-language English contracts to create more powerful smart contracts.
The effect is genocidal, whether or not there was a plan.Judges and lawyers have to be precise because their opinions have precise effects: for historians, a perpetual testing and redefining of categories comes naturally.
