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lawyer who spoke with the commission, said the "very lexicon of the law" needs to be changed to remove euphemistic and outdated terms.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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The next morning, he dressed in a dark suit, a white shirt, and a red tie, and went downtown, to Duane Street, to meet with his criminal lawyer, Georges Lederman.
Tax lawyer Elliot Kajan said he often saw language in civil case filings that read liked a criminal indictment.
For my first novel, "Murder One, " I wanted my protagonist, a lawyer, to defend a woman accused of murder, but I'd never handled a criminal case.
Jonathan Streeter, a government lawyer, objected to the move, arguing that the First Amendment weighs in favor of openness in criminal trials.
As part of Mr. Taylor's lawsuit, his lawyer, Mark Lewis, received evidence seized in the 2006 criminal investigation of Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator on the tabloid's payroll.
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John Whittingdale has asked that Speakers Counsel is present, because no member of the committee is a lawyer, and Mr Whittingdale feels he may need advice on whether a line of questioning might prejudice criminal investigations or future trials in some way.
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