Spitzer worked as an attorney in the public and private sectors before he was elected attorney general, including serving as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney's office from 1986 to 1992.

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She then worked in private practice and in the California attorney general's office before joining the California Court of Appeals and later the state Supreme Court.

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In 2011 Asil Nadir's defence team tried to stop the trial by arguing that the original case controller prejudiced the case by passing around the tycoon's private legal correspondence and failing to tell the attorney general about this.

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David Boies, supreme private-sector litigator, takes on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, consummate prosecutor and politician.

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In a rhetorical rematch of last month's separate arguments over the Obama-backed health care reform law, private attorney Paul Clement will make the case for Arizona while Solicitor General Donald Verrilli will articulate the federal government's position.

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One top Wall Street executive told me a few years ago how, during Spitzer's crusade against crooked securities research, a blow-by-blow account of a supposedly private meeting appeared in The Wall Street Journal the next day--ending when the then attorney general left the room.

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New York state's attorney-general accused the stockbroker of a conflict of interest in recommending shares that it slighted in private in order to pick up investment-banking business.

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