The arrangement "meant employment as local counsel could only be profitable as volume, rote work, " the court said.

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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.

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How can an arrangement approved by legal counsel, and acceptable within the local political culture, be the stuff of a federal crime?

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The executive order means that the agency can once again hold foreign terror suspects indefinitely, and without charges, in black sites, without notifying their families or local authorities, or offering access to legal counsel.

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The ratings system wasn't really invented to counsel parents, however, but to head off the threat of local censor boards in many cities and states.

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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith is trying to figure out how Europe can balance its local needs to have some sorts of data located within its borders with the need to get the economy of scale promised by cloud computing.

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The sometimes shaky technology meant the connection was not perfect, but it was generally sufficient for local journalists to put a range of questions to the ICC's chief prosecutor and the defence counsel.

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Defence counsel Siobhan Molloy said Down had been a hard worker throughout his life and also did a lot for local charities.

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