Lawyer, choosing

Bond drew the plight of the Wilson family to the attention of Will Alexander, head of the Farm Security Administration. Doctor Will was the leading figure in the interracial movement of the interwar era director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, trustee of the Rosenwald Fund, and the first president of Dillard University. But all Alexander offered was a modest donation, in the name of the CIC, toward the NAACP s defense of Luther Wilson. Should Wilson s lawyers choose to forgo his fee, Alexander noted, the money saved could be used in helping Mr. [John] Wilson to get started elsewhere. ... 

I I When possible, deal with a single, reliable insurance agent. Choose insurance agents the same way you choose lawyers or doctors. Seek one who enjoys working with people. Do not deal with anyone who is not sympathetic to your special needs as a retiree. 

If you are unsure or undecided in your stance, your writing will be weak and your score will suffer. However, your opinion is not enough. Like a lawyer before a jury, you must convince your reader with evidence that your opinion is valid. This evidence consists of concrete examples, illustrations, and details. Therefore, the most important strategy for the persuasive essay is to choose the side that has the best, or most, evidence. If you believe in that side, your argument will most likely be even stronger (although, as mentioned above, you don t have to believe in it to write a good essay). 

It is important for companies to keep the patent system in mind, whether or not they choose to seek patents for their own products. When technical personnel create useful products or processes that seem to them to be significant advances on the prior art, the assistance of patent counsel very often becomes useful. First, companies need to determine whether use or sale of these new processes or products might infringe someone else s patent. This may involve a search of the relevant records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (and of the patent offices of any foreign countries where the products may be used or marketed). Second, if the product seems to technical personnel to be novel and significant of the art, companies may want to consider whether to apply for a patent. In such a situation, a search should be made at the Patent and Trademark Office to determine whether the invention seems likely to be patentable. How extensive a search should be before a patent application is filed, as well as the decision whether to seek a patent at all, may depend upon how valuable the invention seems. For a very important item, patent lawyers may also conduct searches of the relevant trade literature to see whether the invention has been anticipated but not patented. Some companies monitor the... 

Choosing a trademark, particularly for consumer products, often leads to a struggle between lawyers and marketing executives. Marketing executives very often want to choose a name for the product that will describe or suggest the qualities of their product as much as possible in order to use the chosen name to advertise the value of their company s product. Lawyers, on the other hand, know it is very hard to protect words that are descriptive or suggest qualities of a product against the use by others of similar words. 

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