The law firm is the top legal adviser on deals so far this year.
Zimmerman has said through his legal adviser that he acted in self-defense after Martin attacked him.
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When Labour won in 1997, he rose rapidly to become attorney-general, the government's chief legal adviser.
Bellinger III, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, cited the case, Mexico v.
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Mr. Jacobs's departure crystallized the former Justice Department lawyer's elevated status as Mr. Murdoch's top legal adviser.
Theodore Huckle's appointment as chief legal adviser to the government was approved without objection in the assembly.
But a council legal adviser said that the council could not take such an offer into consideration.
Former attorney general and senior government legal adviser Mohan Peiris was appointed on Tuesday to replace Shirani Bandaranayake.
"We are a Muslim society and we all respect our religion, " said Walid Mezher, the Education Ministry's legal adviser.
At the time the coroner, appointed chief legal adviser to the Stormont Executive in 2010, cited potential national security issues.
John Bellinger, chief legal adviser to Condoleezza Rice in the State Department, has been the driving force behind the change of attitude.
President Obama has tabbed the former dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, to become the legal adviser for the State Department.
One major public announcement was that of the First Minister's nomination for the post of Counsel General, the government's chief legal adviser.
But others, like John Bellinger, the current State Department legal adviser, and his predecessor, William Taft, have long urged a more measured approach.
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They don't believe she can remain the government's chief legal adviser when she has broken a law she herself drafted and piloted through Parliament.
The UK Government's most senior legal adviser, Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, says military action against Iraq is authorised under existing UN Security Council resolutions.
In civil cases, the solution for those who can afford it is to buy the best-connected legal adviser available, or to use private arbitrators.
The State Department's Legal Adviser Harold Koh believes the US should subordinate its laws to an abstract and largely unfounded notion of international law.
In Moscow, a legal adviser called Sergei Magnitsky had begun to investigate for Browder, but within months Magnitsky was arrested on suspicion of tax offences.
Because there is a host of conditions to be met to render such contracts valid, the help of an Islamic legal adviser is usually required.
The unit is headed by Donna Hansberry, a longtime litigator for the tax agency who was formerly a senior legal adviser on the IRS commissioner's staff.
Lt Col Nicholas Mercer, the legal adviser during the invasion in 2003, said he believed there was more than just a rogue element responsible for abuse.
The question whether the Shariah-terror link is sufficient to create a legal duty has not been formally decided but no marginally prudent legal adviser can responsibly ignore it.
The government's legal adviser, the attorney-general, heard of the case only after the court's decision, which resulted in the early release from jail of a convicted child rapist.
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Alison Levitt, chief legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said police were too cautious in their approach and should have asked more questions to push inquiries forward.
John Bellinger, the former legal adviser to the State Department, argues that one of the Bush administration's biggest mistakes was neglecting to secure international support for its novel counterterrorism policies.
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Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said she had reviewed a decision not to prosecute Mr Le Vell following allegations made against him in 2011.
In a statement, Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said prosecutors had been considering whether to bring charges against two journalists over alleged phone hacking.
"Enforcing a court order against a diplomat, restricting his freedom of movement, that could cause a problem, " said Narinder Singh, a diplomatic-law expert and former legal adviser to India's foreign ministry.
"The undersecretary of political affairs, the undersecretary for management, the director general of the Foreign Service and the deputy legal adviser will work with me to drive this forward, " Nides said.
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