President Obama has tabbed the former dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, to become the legal adviser for the State Department.
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 law firm is the top legal adviser on deals so far this year.
"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.
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.
The OECD has particular concerns about the role of the Attorney General, the UK's chief legal adviser, and whether the independence of the post-holder is compromised by being a member of the cabinet.
The debate, which Mr Boyd attended in his capacity as the executive's constitutional and legal adviser, follows the publication of two reports into the handling of the 1998 Chhokar murder case.
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.
But while Mr Grieve - the government's chief legal adviser - would not be drawn on the controversial move to block release of the NHS transition risk register, he doubted whether the case was part of moves to change freedom of information policy.
Making sure the transition goes smoothly, Benedict made an important appointment Wednesday, naming the No. 2 administrator of the Vatican city state, Monsignor Giuseppe Sciacca, as a legal adviser to the camerlengo.
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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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.
When Labour won in 1997, he rose rapidly to become attorney-general, the government's chief legal adviser.
Theodore Huckle's appointment as chief legal adviser to the government was approved without objection in the assembly.
"We are a Muslim society and we all respect our religion, " said Walid Mezher, the Education Ministry's legal adviser.
One major public announcement was that of the First Minister's nomination for the post of Counsel General, the government's chief legal adviser.
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.
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.
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.
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.
His son Tal was fighting the north Wales PCC seat for Labour but he came second to independent candidate Winston Roddick, a barrister and former senior legal adviser to the assembly.
Suzanne Spaulding, a former legal adviser to the Senate and House intelligence committees, says improvements in data-mining technology have enabled intelligence agencies to milk favourable court rulings in ways that exceed judicial intent.
Jeffrey Kovar, assistant legal adviser for the U.S. State Department, who has been representing the U.S. in these ongoing negotiations, testified in a June House subcommittee hearing that the "widening gap" between global commerce and individual court systems could inhibit growth in trade.
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He is a defendant in three trials: one on charges of embezzlement, tax-dodging and false accounting, one in which he stands accused of paying an under-age prostitute and one for alleged bribery. (He denies all the charges.) The third, in which he is accused of corrupting his former legal adviser, David Mills, is the one he is said to fear most.
But a council legal adviser said that the council could not take such an offer into consideration.
"The fact that he said this is a pretty clear sign that there's a worrying division which is opening up between Europe and the U.S. on this matter, " said Alec Burnside, a legal adviser to software association CompTIA, which supported Microsoft in the European Court of First Instance.
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.
Navdeep Singh, a policy adviser to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says Sikhs believe in freedom of religion, community service and inclusiveness.
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