The chairman of the judicial-affairs committee is Gaetano Pecorella, a criminal lawyer who sits for Forza Italia.
Rebecca John, a criminal lawyer who spoke with the commission, said the "very lexicon of the law" needs to be changed to remove euphemistic and outdated terms.
The Lib Dems are conducting two inquiries - one into the specific complaints against Lord Rennard, which will be chaired by Alistair Webster QC, a criminal lawyer and former head of the Lib Dem Lawyers Association.
Also on Team Mega are two independent lawyers capable of handling the most difficult work: Queen's Counsel Paul Davison (often cited as the most expensive lawyer in New Zealand) and Guyon Foley a criminal lawyer who made his mark prosecuting cases for the police before "switching sides, " so to speak.
The Lib Dems are now conducting two inquiries - one into the specific complaints against Lord Rennard, which will be chaired by Alistair Webster QC, a criminal lawyer and former head of the Lib Dem Lawyers Association, and the other - which will be independently chaired - into how the allegations were handled in the past.
The roster includes two physicians, a hat maker, a furniture manufacturer, a fellow-traveling lawyer, a small-time criminal lawyer, a corrupt (in the best Chicago tradition) lawyer, a high-school teacher, a sculptor, an unsuccessful inventor, and a sad loser who rides the rails during the Depression.
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My lawyer, Richard Klein of East Brunswick, primarily a criminal defense lawyer, told me he had never even heard of a short sale before.
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She also emphasises that she has not been a criminal defence lawyer since she taught at Stanford in 2001.
Ney's office says he has not been contacted by the Justice Department, either, but he has retained a criminal defense lawyer.
If Goodman, who used to defend mobsters as a criminal defense lawyer, has his way, it could spark a feeding frenzy for every under-funded tourist trap from Cleveland to Cucamonga.
Likewise, if Kelley were charging cyber harassment under Florida state law, says Leslie Sammis, a criminal defense lawyer in Tampa, she would only have to show that the emails caused her emotional distress.
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"I saw this area of the law as one that would be growing and dynamic, and it satisfied my professional interests in being a criminal defense lawyer and also my personal interest in computers, " she says.
Last-minute concerns among them finding a criminal-defense lawyer in the United States were being addressed.
Thurlow, a former criminal defense lawyer, had no previous experience running mutual funds.
Karen Steinhauser, a criminal-defense lawyer and former prosecutor in the Denver District Attorney's Office, said the state often files multiple murder charges if the nature of a crime matches more than one definition under state law.
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The charges mean the Nigerian can only be interrogated like any other defendant in a criminal case, subject to having a lawyer present and his Miranda rights read.
The case relates to a visit last year from a lawyer from the International Criminal Court (ICC) who was accused of passing information to Mr Gaddafi.
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, and others at the investment bank have hired a white-collar criminal defense lawyer whose past clients include an Enron accounting officer and former WorldCom CEO, Bernard Ebber.
He told a former Merck colleague about the prison-stripes comment, and a month later the colleague referred him to a lawyer--Elizabeth Ainslie, a white-collar lawyer who had run the criminal fraud section in the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's office.
MSPs were forced to rush through emergency legislation giving criminal suspects immediate access to a lawyer.
Wainwright, the high court ruled that criminal defendants are entitled to a lawyer even if they cannot afford one.
Lerach's relationship with plaintiffs is an issue in a criminal investigation in Los Angeles, where lawyer Seymour Lazar was indicted in June 2005 on charges of receiving kickbacks from Lerach's old law firm in exchange for serving as a plaintiff in numerous securities suits between 1977 and 2004.
Eduardo Contreras, a Chilean human rights lawyer, declared: 'Pinochet should be buried as a common criminal, ' adding, 'The dictator died on December 10, the International Day of Human Rights.
But one account of the trial says the government vetoed her choice, and she had to be represented by a local lawyer with no known experience in criminal law.
He was able to get out of this, but people wind up having to go to criminal courts and fight these charges, hire a lawyer and then have to try to find out if their civil rights have been violated.
He and Laura, a former corporate lawyer, created their own foundation to improve the criminal justice, education and pension systems.
According to sources, Deputy Assistant Attorney Scott Hammond, the senior staff lawyer who has run the criminal enforcement team for a more than a decade, vehemently protested the move which is now being finalized.
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But criminal defense lawyer Roy Black told CNN that the Levy family is using a good strategy.
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