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  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • After a year of litigation, a majority of the McDonald's workers still supported the Teamsters.†   (source)
  • When the others find out about Mink's latest caper, there is a period of prolonged controversy, animosity, litigation and disgrace.†   (source)
  • After the suicide, the property had become the subject of extensive litigation between Kari Saipu's cook and his secretary.†   (source)
  • The variance depends a little on luck and a great deal on the extent of litigation.†   (source)
  • You have the defense perspective, so you understand the litigants.†   (source)
  • Is Roger involved in any litigation right now?†   (source)
  • Though she specialized in estate law while Jack worked in general litigation, Adrienne knew their cases sometimes overlapped and required a collaboration, so it didn't surprise her to see them dining with each other.†   (source)
  • What kind of litigation?†   (source)
  • YASIR BILLOO speaks four languages and practices commercial litigation law in Miami.†   (source)
  • The litigation dragged on for three years.†   (source)
  • If the cause was laid in Captain Blane's lap, then tens of millions—even hundreds of millions—of dollars' worth of wrongful-death litigation would ensue.†   (source)
  • Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.†   (source)
  • Miami Airlines, the non-scheduled operator of the ill-fated Dec. 16 flight, is already in litigation with the Civil Aeronautics Board for flying an excessive number of flights between Newark and Florida.†   (source)
  • Staples and Sedgwick were respected lawyers in their own right, but both knew Baldwin to be the superior litigator and agreed that he should lead their team.†   (source)
  • For even greater reasons, a group of men are unfit to be both judges and litigants at the same time.†   (source)
  • Metzger was to act as co-executor and special counsel in the event of any involved litigation.†   (source)
  • Tax specialists, litigation specialists, labor specialists, merger specialists, the works.†   (source)
  • After some litigation you would lose the ranch, but you would still be free.†   (source)
  • In which court was this litigant's case?†   (source)
  • Litigation was for hams, not for serious people.†   (source)
  • He proved to be an outstanding litigator and an extremely effective project manager.†   (source)
  • It wasn't about my career as a litigator.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Jake was not involved in the litigation; he avoided Leach at all costs.†   (source)
  • He knew they were bogged down in insurance litigation.†   (source)
  • Lundy had chosen the peaceful career of a tax adviser, thus avoiding the horrors of litigation.†   (source)
  • This is the way high-powered litigation goes, Your Honor.†   (source)
  • Jake spoke at length to a litigator in Memphis, a stranger connected by a mutual acquaintance.†   (source)
  • He ran a ten-man litigation firm with a reputation for aggressive and creative tactics.†   (source)
  • "It's out of my range and I'm still tied up in litigation.†   (source)
  • He was terrified of litigation and usually backed down quickly.†   (source)
  • I'm getting concerned over the costs of this administration and litigation."†   (source)
  • Litigating against him was so unpleasant that potential defendants had been known to settle quickly.†   (source)
  • I'm in litigation with the insurance company.†   (source)
  • Litigants pursuing frivolous claims were finding themselves bounced out of court.†   (source)
  • As you know, Sistrunk is a high-powered litigator with plenty of resources.†   (source)
  • Most of the litigants were present: the Hubbards on one side, Lettie and Phedra on the other.†   (source)
  • RICH puts the cup down) It was a gift from a litigant, a woman, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • Like win the litigation I'm bringing against the estate of Pierce Inverarity.†   (source)
  • After nine hours of listening to the vagaries of Old Sarum's inhabitants, Judge Taylor threw the case out of court on grounds of frivolous pleading and declared he hoped to God the litigants were satisfied by each having had his public say.†   (source)
  • If you don't want to be a high-powered Supreme Court litigator, you shouldn't care that much about this job."†   (source)
  • But when injuries are less visible (such as those stemming from cumulative trauma) the meatpackers often prolong the whole workers' comp process through litigation, insisting upon hearings and filing seemingly endless appeals.†   (source)
  • Scientists who've gone ahead with research involving the breast-cancer genes without Myriad's permission have found themselves on the receiving end of cease-and-desist letters and threats of litigation.†   (source)
  • Ted Friedman, the prominent litigator in the 1970s and 1980s, remembers as a child going to concerts with his mother at Carnegie Hall.†   (source)
  • The additional prison conditions litigation meant a lot of long-distance driving and extremely long hours.†   (source)
  • It was a softball, but I'd gotten so used to talking about my budding interest in antitrust litigation (an interest that was at least a little fabricated) that I was laughably unprepared.†   (source)
  • But it said that ruling in Moore's favor might "destroy the economic incentive to conduct important medical research," and that giving patients property rights in their tissues might "hinder research by restricting access to the necessary raw materials," creating a field where "with every cell sample a researcher purchases a ticket in a litigation lottery."†   (source)
  • All of a sudden the things that the old-line law firms didn't want to do, hostile takeovers and litigation, were the things that every law firm wanted to do.†   (source)
  • Rob is a white native Mississippian whose Southern charm and manner enhanced his outstanding litigation skills in Alabama courts.†   (source)
  • One flight up from Flom's corner office at Skadden, Arps is the office of Barry Garfinkel, who has been at Skadden, Arps nearly as long as Flom and who for many years headed the firm's litigation department.†   (source)
  • At the end of three days of intense litigation, the judge adjourned the proceedings in the late afternoon.†   (source)
  • "* The work that "came in the door" to the generation of Jewish lawyers from the Bronx and Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s, then, was the work the white-shoe firms disdained: litigation and, more important, "proxy fights," * The lawyer and novelist Louis Auchincloss, who very much belongs to the old WASP-y white-shoe legal establishment in New York, has a scene in his book The Scarlet Letters that perfectly captures the antipathy the downtown firms felt toward takeover law.†   (source)
  • Following the Nelson litigation, questions about the drug combination that most states used to carry out lethal injections arose.†   (source)
  • Teaching and increased fund-raising responsibilities got piled on top of my bulging litigation docket, but somehow things progressed.†   (source)
  • Our litigation strategy was complicated by the fact that more than 2,500 children in the United States had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • We were still very actively litigating on behalf of condemned children in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—Southern states where we had litigated previously.†   (source)
  • After a year of depositions, hearings, and pretrial litigation, we eventually reached a settlement with most of the defendants that would provide Walter with a few hundred thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • Continued litigation about lethal injection protocols and other questions about the reliability of the death penalty slowed the execution rate in Alabama dramatically.†   (source)
  • Developing the trust of clients is not only necessary to manage the complexities of the litigation and deal with the stress of a potential execution; it's also key to effective advocacy.†   (source)
  • We were still very actively litigating on behalf of condemned children in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—Southern states where we had litigated previously.†   (source)
  • I didn't have a basic grasp of the complex appeals process that shaped death penalty litigation, a process that would in time become as familiar to me as the back of my hand.†   (source)
  • I was immediately thrown into litigation with pressing deadlines and didn't have time to find a place to live— and my $14,000 annual salary didn't leave me with much money for rent—so Steve kindly took me in.†   (source)
  • In preparing litigation on behalf of the children we were representing, it was clear that these shocking and senseless crimes couldn't be evaluated honestly without understanding the lives these children had been forced to endure.†   (source)
  • The attorney general's motion asked the court to stay the litigation and not issue a ruling because they "may have uncovered exculpatory evidence favorable to Mr. McMillian that could entitle him to a new trial," but they needed more time to complete their investigation.†   (source)
  • I discovered that the law school offered an unusual one-month intensive course on race and poverty litigation taught by Betsy Bartholet, a law professor who had worked as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.†   (source)
  • Responding to questions relevant to his supposed intimacy with Mr. Clutter, the judge said, "He [Clutter] was once a litigant in this court, a case over which I presided, a damage action involving an airplane falling on his property; he was suing for damages to-I believe some fruit trees.†   (source)
  • And in civil cases, it looks at all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, even if the disputes deal with laws in the most distant part of the globe.†   (source)
  • "He's always involved in litigation.†   (source)
  • It was unusual but not unprecedented for a sitting governor to be involved in active litigation during his term.†   (source)
  • Well, soon you'll be wanting to move out there and I'll have to switch to livestock litigation or something.†   (source)
  • With these arguments, Jenkins and Bingham succeeded in carrying the case three times to the United States Supreme Court-the Big Boy, as many litigating prisoners refer to it-but on each occasion the Court, which never comments on its decisions in such instances, denied the appeals by refusing to grant the writs of certiorari that would have entitled the appellants to a full hearing before the Court.†   (source)
  • Almost every subject of litigation that doesn't involve fraud, accident, trust, or hardship could be an object of equitable rather than legal jurisdiction as the distinction is known and established in the States.†   (source)
  • They staked a claim beside the nursery slopes and Farlow listened sympathetically while Robert told him how the litigation over Grace's accident was progressing—or rather not progressing, for it was getting so complicated it seemed destined to drag on for years.†   (source)
  • Stillman, the litigator, said, "So, uh, Jake, we ask you to withdraw the handwritten will and allow us to proceed with the authentic one."†   (source)
  • While the clients were troubled by rising expenses, Wade Lanier understood the economic realities of big-time litigation.†   (source)
  • It allowed certain lawyers or litigants to be seen more, or less, by the jurors, who were always watching.†   (source)
  • "We've worked up a litigation budget.†   (source)
  • He said he was involved in some high-powered litigation with Seth Hubbard on the other side, and he knew they had a history.†   (source)
  • The money was now being fronted by Wade Lanier's law firm, which was paying all the litigation expenses.†   (source)
  • Over the years he had jailed several litigants when they were caught red-handed telling lies, but always in divorce cases.†   (source)
  • Lucien said, "We're involved in some litigation that makes it imperative that we locate a man named Ancil Hubbard.†   (source)
  • We think it might need to be litigated, but our position is that Mr. Lang has a direct pecuniary interest in the will contest.†   (source)
  • Eighty percent of the gross estate for their clients, less taxes and so forth, and their little ten-man litigation firm would net a fee in excess of $2 million.†   (source)
  • Litigation often required eighteen-hour days and lost weekends, and if Portia was serious about becoming a lawyer she needed a good dose of the pressure.†   (source)
  • So far, his firm had either spent or committed to spending just over $85,000 in litigation expenses, moneys the clients were ultimately responsible for.†   (source)
  • Most litigants, divorce or otherwise, who ran afoul of Harry Rex Vonner were miserable for the rest of their lives and loathed everything about the legal profession.†   (source)
  • "I'm a litigator.†   (source)
  • The discovery ran through his body like a shock and made his skin tingle, the way music did sometimes, or a brilliant point perfectly timed in a piece of litigation.†   (source)
  • Here is Ted Friedman, one of the top litigators in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.†   (source)
  • Joshua Carter and Robert Caston were the first two cases we decided to litigate.†   (source)
  • Those guys know how to litigate.†   (source)
  • And there was litigation about an apartment uptown.†   (source)
  • Otherwise there would be no end to litigation.†   (source)
  • Then they struck oil just west of Mason County over in Ackamulgee County, and in that section Willie got mixed up in the litigation between an oil company and some independent leaseholders.†   (source)
  • This is why I am in the car: Thirty-seven years before, about 1896, the stocky, sober, fortyish man, with the steel-rimmed spectacles and the dark suit, who was the Scholarly Attorney, had gone up to a lumber town in south Arkansas to interview witnesses and conduct an investigation for a big timberland litigation.†   (source)
  • His passion is for the British law, and he has spent a large fortune in litigation.†   (source)
  • "Then these other litigants," said K., "have all been right, just as I am.†   (source)
  • "He's very good with the litigants," whispered the girl.†   (source)
  • We would pass, in the Rue de l'Oiseau, before the old hostelry of the Oiseau Flesche, into whose great courtyard, once upon a time, would rumble the coaches of the Duchesses de Montpensier, de Guermantes, and de Montmorency, when they had to come down to Combray for some litigation with their farmers, or to receive homage from them.†   (source)
  • The chances were that May, who knew nothing of his professional life, and had never shown any interest in it, would not learn of the postponement, should it take place, nor remember the names of the litigants if they were mentioned before her; and at any rate he could no longer put off seeing Madame Olenska.†   (source)
  • I found afterwards that he had sent touts all over the bazaar to announce the fact—told all the litigants, 'Oh, you'd better come to my Vakil Mahmoud Ali—he's in with the City Magistrate.'†   (source)
  • It's not really his job to help litigants outside if they're unwell but he's doing it anyway, as you can see.†   (source)
  • Bearing all this in mind, does it still surprise K. that the officials are irritated and often express themselves about the litigants in unflattering ways — which is an experience shared by everyone.†   (source)
  • As the management here is rather peculiar in this respect, and they would get them for us, we had a collection — some of the litigants contributed too — and bought him these lovely clothes and some others besides.†   (source)
  • He felt as if he were on a ship in a rough sea, as if the water were hitting against the wooden walls, a thundering from the depths of the corridor as if the torrent were crashing over it, as if the corridor were swaying and the waiting litigants on each side of it rising and sinking.†   (source)
  • We, that's to say all of us who work in the offices here, we decided that the information-giver would have to be elegantly dressed as he continually has to deal with the litigants and he's the first one they meet, so he needs to give a dignified first impression.†   (source)
  • The lawyers' room is on the second floor of the attic; if your foot does go through it will hang down into the first floor of the attic underneath it, and right in the corridor where the litigants are waiting.†   (source)
  • Lastly, all the most serious cases of litigation are brought before the Supreme Court, which holds a solemn session once a year, at which all the judges of the Circuit Courts must attend.†   (source)
  • He has been occupied for many years in conducting civil and commercial litigation, and only the other day he won an important case.†   (source)
  • Around four of the pillars, stalls of merchants, all sparkling with glass and tinsel; around the last three, benches of oak, worn and polished by the trunk hose of the litigants, and the robes of the attorneys.†   (source)
  • Upon examining what is now occurring amongst the democratic nations of Europe which are called free, as well as amongst the others, it will be observed that new and more dependent courts are everywhere springing up by the side of the old ones, for the express purpose of deciding, by an extraordinary jurisdiction, such litigated matters as may arise between the government and private persons.†   (source)
  • If the Bureau could have maintained a perfectly judicial attitude, this arrangement would have been ideal, and must in time have gained confidence; but the nature of its other activities and the character of its personnel prejudiced the Bureau in favor of the black litigants, and led without doubt to much injustice and annoyance.†   (source)
  • Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself.†   (source)
  • He determined to drop his litigation with the monastery, and relinquish his claims to the wood-cutting and fishery rights at once.†   (source)
  • The quality of the parties in this case gives a national importance to all their disputes; and the most trifling litigation of the States may be said to involve the peace of the whole Union.†   (source)
  • The Americans have retained these three distinguishing characteristics of the judicial power; an American judge can only pronounce a decision when litigation has arisen, he is only conversant with special cases, and he cannot act until the cause has been duly brought before the court.†   (source)
  • There the most trifling litigation is never conducted without the introduction of an entire system of ideas peculiar to the counsel employed; and the fundamental principles of law are discussed in order to obtain a perch of land by the decision of the court.†   (source)
  • I do not know whether the jury is useful to those who are in litigation; but I am certain it is highly beneficial to those who decide the litigation; and I look upon it as one of the most efficacious means for the education of the people which society can employ.†   (source)
  • Supposing that the State of Ohio should claim the same right in behalf of certain territories lying within its boundaries, upon the plea that the Constitution refers to those lands alone which do not belong to the jurisdiction of any particular State, and consequently should choose to dispose of them itself, the litigation would be carried on in the names of the purchasers from the State of Ohio and the purchasers from the Union, and not in the names of Ohio and the Union.†   (source)
  • This notion of their superiority perpetually recurs to them in the practice of their profession: they are the masters of a science which is necessary, but which is not very generally known; they serve as arbiters between the citizens; and the habit of directing the blind passions of parties in litigation to their purpose inspires them with a certain contempt for the judgment of the multitude.†   (source)
  • …and surveyors were appointed to attend to them; *g registers were established in every parish, in which the results of public deliberations, and the births, deaths, and marriages of the citizens were entered; *h clerks were directed to keep these registers; *i officers were charged with the administration of vacant inheritances, and with the arbitration of litigated landmarks; and many others were created whose chief functions were the maintenance of public order in the community.†   (source)
  • Litigation.†   (source)
  • Here Allworthy interposed; and the squire being unable to prevail either with the uncle or nephew, was, after some litigation, obliged to consent to delay introducing Jones to Sophia till the afternoon; at which time Allworthy, as well in compassion to Jones as in compliance with the eager desires of Western, was prevailed upon to promise to attend at the tea-table.†   (source)
  • The judiciary power of every government looks beyond its own local or municipal laws, and in civil cases lays hold of all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, though the causes of dispute are relative to the laws of the most distant part of the globe.†   (source)
  • There is hardly a subject of litigation between individuals, which may not involve those ingredients of FRAUD, ACCIDENT, TRUST, or HARDSHIP, which would render the matter an object of equitable rather than of legal jurisdiction, as the distinction is known and established in several of the States.†   (source)
  • The simplicity and expedition which form the distinguishing characters of this mode of trial require that the matter to be decided should be reduced to some single and obvious point; while the litigations usual in chancery frequently comprehend a long train of minute and independent particulars.†   (source)
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