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Super Bowl Potential Clients
1,278 wordsEstablishing and Maintaining Good Client Relations Total Quality Management, customer satisfaction index, zero defects, client service - all are buzzwords of management in the 1990 s. Yet what is all this about anyway? After all, lawyers and law firms successfully made it through the ' 80 s without all the commotion about quality and service. Why all the fuss now? Is this just another fad, some passing fancy that will come and go like Hula-Hoops, disco dancing or designer jeans? Hardly. While th...
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Breach Of Contract Recover Damages
2,129 wordsCivil Cases - Return to Table of Contents Civil cases are those in which individuals, corporations or government agencies seek to recover damages, enforce their rights or otherwise protect a legal interest from interference by another. Essentially, the civil law enables people to assert or defend their rights in an orderly, nonviolent manner and enables them to resolve legal disputes in a fashion which society finds acceptable. As might be imagined, civil cases encompass a broad range of legal s...
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Burden Of Proof Voir Dire
2,183 words... als. In both types of cases, provisions are made for alternate jurors to replace a regular juror who may become ill or disabled during trial. In a civil case, the trial jury is composed of 6 persons, with provision for the selection of alternate jurors. The trial jury is selected from the group previously described. A panel is called, and they take their place in the jury box (criminal) or impaneling room (civil). A process known as voir dire then takes place in which the attorneys, and some...
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State And Local Law Firms
1,527 wordsNot all legal work requires a law degree. Lawyers are often assisted in their work by paralegals or legal assistants. Paralegals perform many of the same tasks as lawyers, except for those considered to be the practice of law. Paralegals work for lawyers. Although the lawyers assume responsibility for the legal work, they often delegate many of their tasks to paralegals. Paralegals are prohibited from setting legal fees, giving legal advice, and presenting cases in court. Paralegals generally do...
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Poor And The Justice System
978 wordsIn 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every criminal defendant has a right to have an attorney. The poor are appointed an attorney normally known as a public defender to defend them. The poor are given substandard representation in courts due to lack of funds and a broken criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has made strides forward. The Sixth Amendment right to counsel was generally understood as guaranteeing criminal defendants the right to hire their ow...
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Truth And Justice Defense Attorney
1,298 words... one against the defense attorney becomes evident. The attorneys should have at least a token belief that their subject is in the right. A criminal defense attorney may proclaim himself a fighter for truth and justice, and he may be precisely that, but once a case is accepted, his only responsibility is to his client, regardless of belief. Even defense attorneys who are convinced that their client is guilty are still exhorted to offer the best possible defense and to counsel their client as e...
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Self Defense In Criminal Cases
1,315 wordsOne of the frustrations faced by many businesses is that after the perpetrators of crimes have been identified, the District Attorney's office will not pursue the case. One option is for victims to sue the DA in an attempt to compel him to prosecute, but this would be costly and proving dereliction of duty would be difficult. The DA is effectively immune. Other options are more promising. The law should encourage (and prosecutors' offices should welcome) private preparation of criminal cases. Pr...
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Codes Of Ethics Indigent Defense
2,627 wordsOne of the frustrations faced by many businesses is that after the perpetrators of crimes have been identified, the District Attorneys office will not pursue the case. One option is for victims to sue the DA in an attempt to compel him to prosecute, but this would be costly and proving dereliction of duty would be difficult. The DA is effectively immune. Other options are more promising. The law should encourage (and prosecutors offices should welcome) private preparation of criminal cases. Pros...
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Federal Laws Attorney General
817 wordsDepartment of Justice It is the executive department of the United States federal government, created by Congress in 1870 to assume the functions performed until then by the Office of the Attorney General. The department is headed by the attorney general, which is appointed by the president with the approval of the Senate. The Attorney General is Janet Reno she receives 181, 500 a year. The functions of the department include providing means for the enforcement of federal laws and investigating ...
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Court Of Appeals District Court
242 words&# 65279; CASE: Florida Federal Savings And Loan Association v. Sanchez, 553 So. 2 d 1254 (Fla. 3 rd DCA 1980). STATEMENT OF THE CASE: A court will not award attorneys fees incurred in another jurisdiction than itself. FACTS: A mortgage company foreclosed on a mortgage through a state court that granted summary judgment to the mortgagor. Subsequently, the mortgagees filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code; later, the mortgagees motioned the bankruptc...
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Social Structure Mcgraw Hill
1,519 wordsFebruary 25, 1998 SOC 100 X Paper One Social Structure of Bartlett and Sabol Law Offices Social structure is a part of every organization, whether formal or informal. A very defined social structure is often evident in the workplace. In my workplace, Bartlett and Sabol Law Offices, the social structure is very concrete. There are many perspectives from which the social structure can be viewed. It can best be discussed in terms of statuses, roles, interactions, formal and informal organization, h...
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Voir Dire Impartial Jury
2,870 wordsAnonymous Juries The American criminal justice system has traditionally made the identities and addresses of jurors known to the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. That tradition began to erode with the unprecedented sua sports trial court decision to use an anonymous jury in the case United States v. Barnes, a highly publicized criminal trial of notorious organized crime figures in New York City. Since Barnes, Federal prosecutors in New York have requested and been granted anonymous jurie...
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Justice System Wealthy People
318 wordsImbalance in the American Justice System The United States of America probably has the best justice system throughout the entire planet but; Is this true? There is corruption within this system, which causes it to be constitutionally imbalance. A well-known statement is that only the wealthy can benefit the most from the justice system. The majority believe this because of three major factors. Wealthy people can afford to hire the best attorneys of law. These attorneys probably worked on high pr...
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Criminal Justice System Plead Guilty
1,337 wordsThe most common arguement offered on behalf of plea bargaining is that it lifts the burden of heavy caseloads from the shoulders of the courts. By ensuring that most criminal defendants enter a plea of guilty, plea bargaining eliminates the need for time-consuming trial procedures. Harold J. Roth wax, a Manhattan judge said, " We go to plea bargaining out of necessity, not out of desire. It is inescapable. " Criminal defendants charged with felonies could completely overcome the court ...
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