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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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.
Also, anyone suing for accident damages with the help of a no-win, no-fee lawyer - known as a conditional fee arrangement - will in future have to pay their lawyer's success fee from their own funds if they win their case and not add it to the bill of the losing party.
Some bloggers, though, defended his position, including my high-income-lawyer-loving colleagues at Above the Law.
Finally, and this is why I started this thing in the first place, famed Birther-activist and naturalized-Moldovan-lawyer-dentist Orly Taitz is running for the Senate.
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Big John is John Grisham, the 45-year-old lawyer-turned-author who became publisher of the magazine in 1994 and used it to test the waters for his upcoming novel, A Painted House, which was serialized in the six issues of the Oxford American last year.
Singer served as a regulatory lawyer with both the American Stock Exchange and the NASD and also as an in-house lawyer for broker-dealers, mutual funds and investment advisers.
The new sheriff of Wall Street, a private-sector Eliot Spitzer described by a peer as "the toughest lawyer you will see, " works out of an unassuming 33-lawyer Houston firm.
It finds lawyers to work on contingency and pays 90% of litigants' other costs, including travel, expert witnesses and local counsel--in exchange for a lawyer-size fee: 30% to 50% of what's left after the lawyer takes his fee, perhaps 33% of a settlement.
Mr Capriles - a lawyer by training - is governor of the state of Miranda.
Panish -- the Jackson family's lead lawyer -- questioned Trell Thursday about his previous testimony that there were no "red flags" to alert AEG executives about Jackson's declining health.
Additionally, a court ordered Apple to pay iPhone-using lawyer, Kim Hyung-suk, one million won in a civil suit against the company.
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This time, it helps that his opponent is a political neophyte, a personal-injury lawyer continuing the time-honoured tradition of rich trial lawyers morphing into Democratic Senate candidates.
Lawyers for the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) claim the two men - a lawyer and an economist - as representatives of a mysterious offshore company, ignored an injunction against any transfer of debts surrounding the mall.
Greek-South African human rights advocate - and lawyer to Nelson Mandela - George Bizos said "we should try to increase the number of our friends" in parliament, the universities and schools, and the media, until the British said "Let's come to terms".
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Above all Agnelli -- also known as "l'avvocato " or the lawyer -- was always a man able to shape national policy behind the scenes.
But the well-regarded CEO also promised to do the job, and brought a new air of frankness and accountability that several shareholders--including retired Schering employees and founder Abe Plough's former lawyer--applauded.
Such legitimate concerns have only been further exacerbated by Attorney General Eric Holder's now-notorious decision - one taken without consulting of the rest of the President's intelligence, homeland and national defense team - to allow the Christmas Day pantybomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, to lawyer-up after just 50 minutes of interrogation.
The court reasoned that Alabama's pro-lawyer laws give contingency lawyers such a strong claim on their clients' winnings that the lawyer's cut is in no way income to the client.
The transcripts -- leaked Skype conversations supposedly between the former head of the tribunal and a Bangladeshi lawyer -- appeared to show the two men discussing government pressure on them to reach verdicts.
The transcripts - leaked Skype conversations supposedly between the former head of the tribunal and a Bangladeshi lawyer - appeared to show the two men discussing government pressure on them to reach verdicts.
Rudy Giuliani's decision to drop out wasn't a huge surprise--the New York City mayor is battling prostate cancer and his wife just hired a fancy divorce lawyer--but it was a personal drama of operatic proportions, a thunderclap so loud that mere politics couldn't account for it.
Another lawyer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said "no respected plaintiff class-action lawyer would raise" the issue of the criminal investigation to try and knock Lerach Coughlin out of the Refco case.
Time was, being an in-house lawyer was a cushy, low-risk (and lower-paid) job than working for a big law firm.
Hammad Azhar, a 31-year-old lawyer, as an educated first-timer is the model PTI candidate, though he comes from a wealthy political family.
Mr. Obama's appointment last week of a wholly unqualified individual - Democratic lawyer and political operative Tom Donilon - as his National Security Advisor, can only intensify that perception, inviting the most grave of repercussions.
In fact, it is the product of an orchestrated drive that began five years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the office of a little-known lawyer, David Yerushalmi, a 56-year-old Hasidic Jew with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam.
"I am not a lawyer, so you would have to ask a lawyer for that - he's had his lawyers with him, and the word he used is 'contests', so we just have to accept that, " he replied.
The ex-trial lawyer's platform is one of clamp-down protectionism and soak-the-rich populism.
Mr Rossi, a 58-year-old lawyer, has cast himself as an anti-establishment outsider, despite a long political career that has featured stints as a federal congressman and as mayor of Osasco, an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo city, and has seen him switch parties four times and churches thrice (he is currently an evangelical Protestant).
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