That career has seen him win a number of giant payments for his clients from juries, including more than $450 million last year from Kimberly-Clark Corp. Avenatti, though, in his battle with Trump has not been shy about employing some theatrical devices in addition to the technical lawyering.
Because he does not have an advanced degree in a technical profession, lawyers advised them that Mr. Storey's chances of gaining a green card based on his employment were very slim.
One manager there complained that the "technical unit" — lawyers, chiefly in Washington, who advise the specialists on the tax law — had been slow in providing guidance on the applications, according to the inspector general.
Consider this, if costs are identical, would you hire a lawyer (technical work in a different field) full time or a law firm with a team of experts in corporate litigation, mergers, acquisitions, errors/omissions and patents?
As part of a barrage of hostile court filings that also sought to dismiss all charges against the officers on technical grounds, their lawyers attacked Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, who announced their charges in the Gray case in a shock statement last Friday.
And this time, it is turning to a less technical solution -- lawyers.
9.05am: Michael White of the Guardian asks if the row is not a technical one about lawyer-speak, while the opinion polls show Mr Blair is still more "charismatic" than Mr Howard.
Normally, Dinneen pointed out, any negotiation between the government and private industry would take place with "an army of people" assembled on opposite sides of a conference table: a phalanx of lawyers, technical specialists, and other advisers.
During the hearing, which lasted two and a half hours, Judge Patel listened to an often highly technical debate between lawyers for Napster and the recording industry over the scope of an injunction.
Now, I'm neither a technical expert nor a lawyer, but I was struck by how broad some of those ideas are — if they were the kind of thing you could sue over, I'd imagine that the flood of Pinterest clones and "Pinterest for X" websites would be in trouble.
