"And the nomination of Mr. Koh appears to be the beginning of a verytroubling pattern, " Lamborn told me, citing Justice Department nominees Dawn Johnsen ( assistant attorney general for legal counsel) and David Ogden (deputy attorney general) as cases of high-level Obama appointees who have histories of praising international law over U.S.-made law.

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At the same time, cloud computing raises a variety of legal issues that General Counsel must master.

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Heleniak will also oversee Morgan Stanley's legal department, including general counsel Donald Kempf , on whose watch have occurred many of the run-ins with regulators over document discovery in recent years.

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Mr Kindler joined Pfizer in 2002 as general counsel after holding a senior legal post at McDonald's.

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Dai Lloyd (Plaid Cymru, South West Wales ) asked how the Assembly Government will obtain legal advice without having a Counsel General.

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Microsoft's general counsel, Bill Neukom, whose legal tactics have so far achieved little, argues that, because the government's plan is so Draconian and goes far beyond the evidence presented in the trial, the hearing should be delayed until the end of the year.

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One major public announcement was that of the First Minister's nomination for the post of Counsel General, the government's chief legal adviser.

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Instead, the administration relies on its own notions of its legal authority (courtesy of the White House counsel and the attorney general) and invokes its responsibility for protecting American lives.

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