In 1993, she took a job as the general counsel for the Department of Defense.
The wheels of his capital prosecution have now been set in motion after the offer made by Holmes' defense counsel to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment without the chance of parole was rejected by Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler.
Since 2003, the U.S. Army has funded all defense counsel travel for courts-martial, beginning with the initial detailing of counsel to a client.
Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, I thank you both for joining us.
In the beginning of the trial, lead defense counsel Raja Aziz applied for a watching brief that would allow international observers to sit with the lawyers and monitor the trial.
Caspar Weinberger, secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan (and current chairman of FORBES), was the company's general counsel in the 1970s.
In the matter under discussion, it will be somewhat misguided for legal counsel to argue facilely in defense of their U.S.corporate clients that the Shariah authorities were employed strictly to issue legal rulings on financial matters and all other rulings fall outside the scope of their employment.
We're joined know by Ted Shaw, director counsel and president of the NAACP legal defense fund.
At sentencing, it is common for defense counsel and judges alike to invoke the passage of time and intervening efforts by the cooperating witness to acknowledge his or her wrongdoing as factors in favor of a reduced sentence.
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Specifically, an executive summary of a Defense Department survey was written by the department's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, before the survey was even begun on July 7, 2010.
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In late November defense contractor Dyncorp International dismissed its general counsel amid an investigation into possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
This allows counsel to get "actively involved in cases at the earliest stages, defense counsel have successfully negotiated non-punitive dispositions of cases that otherwise may have been disposed of at courts-martial, " according to the Report of the Judge Advocate General for Fiscal Year 2005.
They were among the lucky few who ventured to go to trial, who could afford top-notch defense counsel, and whose trial was presided over by a judge who did not act like part of the prosecution team.
But it does seem likely that much of what was said in Mr. Simpson's defense would have been set aside by a listener more acquainted than the Los Angeles panel was with the wily ways of counsel.
Mr. DANIEL DELL'ORTO (Deputy General Counsel, United States Department of Defense): All Congress need to do, assuming it has taken the opportunity to review the commission processes as currently configured, is to ratify that process, and we can move on very, very quickly.
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