Showing posts with label best law firms in america. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best law firms in america. Show all posts

Friday, 10 June 2016

Petra, Jordan: Huge monument found 'hiding in plain sight

Petra, Jordan: Huge monument found 'hiding in plain sight
A huge monument has been discovered buried under the sands at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan.
Archaeologists used satellite images, drone photography and ground surveys to locate the find, according to the study published in the American Schools of Oriental Research.
The large platform is about as long as an Olympic swimming pool and twice as wide.
Researchers say it is unlike any other structure at the ancient site.
The study, by Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Christopher Tuttle, executive director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, describes the find as "hiding in plain sight".


A map showing the ancient site of Petra
An archaeologist inspects ruins in PetraImage copyrightQTWEISSI
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Ground surveys played their part in the discovery too

Petra dates back to the fourth century BC, when it was founded by the Nabataean civilization, who inhabited parts of what is now Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
Surface pottery suggests the platform was built in the mid-second century BC, when Petra was at its peak.
It is thought the structure may have had a ceremonial purpose.
The survey also revealed a smaller platform was contained inside the larger one, which was once lined with columns on one side with a vast staircase on the other.


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Petra, the city carved in stone

Mr Tuttle told National Geographic that someone in decades of excavation "had to know" the structure was there yet it had not been written up.
"I've worked in Petra for 20 years, and I knew that something was there, but it's certainly legitimate to call this a discovery."
Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Petra each year, although numbers have been hit by the conflict against so-called Islamic State.
The site is best-known for the Treasury Building, which is carved from sandstone and featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.


The Treasury Building in the ancient city of Petra2016
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Petra's most famous landmark is the Treasury Building

Sunday, 10 January 2016

Hiring a lawyer-is a lawyer-judicial matters.

Hiring a lawyer-is a lawyer-judicial matters.
What is the importance of hiring a lawyer?

Law profession recognized since antiquity, the origins of logical and scientific grounds, and no public knowledge of Sciences complex and overlapping.

So whatever degrees for life experience or person, his use of a lawyer who specializes in judicial matters.

Because right however was clear in the case, and the judge however was fair, it is subject to legal controls and procedures to be adhered to, and possible loss of the case simply because of an error in procedure.

The judge ruled the case according to law, so not his defense for you if you ignored it, and the judge's time is precious, so don't hear opponents but what is a product, it does not allow any words being said, which has lose speech litigant in the case and to identify the product, and thus the case is no defense, but often find litigant decides against his interests without knowing that, despite his Right.

And confirmed the importance of hiring counsel to governmental authorities, members of Parliament, who begin law although they have legal advisers, they use lawyers, as well as companies, traders and experienced hiring lawyers.

Counsel by virtue of judicial expertise saves time and effort, so the litigant to balance the amount of fees that will be paid to the lawyer and the loss or gain of the proceedings as a whole.

I stayed the last word, is that in criminal matters, the hiring of a lawyer is mandatory, even if the accused refuses it, the judge assigned him a lawyer to defend him.

How to choose the right lawyer?

Important rules will help you to choose the right lawyer:

1 should be certified law firm check.

2 must meet Office owner personally and explain to him your case and not the Office workers so prefer to call the Office to schedule an appointment with the lawyer to meet him, and prefers to take a friend you trust when the lawyer.

3 explain the problem honestly and faithfully, and made all that you have documentation.

4 hear legal opinion without strain, counsel questions the dialectic and hypotheses are not present.

5 do not involve counsel, emotional and social problems, this is not one of competence.

6 don't mind to consult more than one counsel for comparison and weighting.

7 lawyer discussed the consensus and consulting other shave and clearly without dispute.

8 tell your lawyer whether you have another lawyer case until their coordination.

9 choose the lawyer comfortable with him and trust his work and expertise.

10 after agreement with the lawyer worked with Office staff so that each competence to serve your case.

Important warning:

Beware lawyer time is precious, do not consume his time so don't get offended you then chooses the shortcut in the legal answer.

Beware that you pretending intelligence and you yourself directly issue based on the information that you collect from lawyers because there are legal complications will be discussed with you as its attorney with justice and do not even fall in trouble cannot get ride of it.

What qualities of a successful lawyer?

1 lawyer filled with energy and vitality, and his confident smile activity.

2 the lawyer was revealed on the face and gravitas and experience of years.

3 the catch sight of a shrewd lawyer experienced issues which accommodates your words directly.

4 lawyer optimist alert the regulator listens attentively.

5 sincere counsel taciturn much work.

6 Counsel his experience in the profession.

7 lawyer deeply eloquent thought easy expression in speech signal.

Important warning:

Beware of guarantees and pledge to you that we will win the case 100 percent.

Beware of you decide that his power and influence over the judiciary.

Beware of you decide that bribing a court.

Beware of Attorney profession and lawyer trunk.

These swindlers offenders, you must inform the Kuwaiti Lawyers ' Association immediately, or contact us for help.

How to assess attorneys ' fees?

Kuwait has no sorry specific criterion to assess attorney fees, attorney fees varies from another lawyer here find some lawyers overly determine his remuneration for principal fatigue degree, others declining to below the level of the real costs of the case to the extent that it constitutes an actual loss on the desktop, thus affecting the effort, so the client is informed that helps in the correct estimate of the fees issue.

We can say that lawyer fees determined in accordance with the standard fixed costs and duration of the litigation, and the type of case, the effort by his experience.

Monthly and yearly costs:

As office rent, which varies from region to region and from one place to another, the rent on an apartment or investment, not as a rent in the commerical capital, where the rent per square metre, a lawyer who chooses a distinctive place and close to clients and courts to doubt that carrying costs more.

As well as wages and salaries of advisers and staff which vary according to the skill of them all and the number and competence.

And also electricity and water expenses, transport and communication and maintenance of hardware, software, and publications, papers and inks, as well as fees and lawyers ' insurance contributions which vary according to the degree of being a lawyer.

These banks represent the minimum for any issue which cannot get off him and not cause material loss and burden on the lawyer.

Monday, 28 December 2015

best law firms in america 2016 - the top fifteen firms for 2016

  ,  the top fifteen firms for 2016
best law firms in america 2016 , best law firms in america 2016

annual ranking of America's most prestigious law firms.
The only notable changes in the top ten was Sullivan & Cromwell retaking the No. 3 spot from Skadden.
Vault's ranking is based on a survey of nearly 17,000 law associates, featuring comments and analysis about each firm. With their permission, we've highlighted the top firms here.

 the top fifteen firms for 2016

best law firms in america 2016

  1. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
  2. Cravath, Swaine & Moore
  3. Sullivan & Cromwell
  4. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  5. Davis Polk & Wardwell
  6. Weil, Gotshal & Manges
  7. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
  8. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  9. Kirkland & Ellis
  10. Latham & Watkins
  11. Covington & Burling LLP
  12. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
  13. Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  14. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  15. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP