Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

He later worked as a lawyer, while she briefly supported her family as a homemaker before pursuing teaching and writing.

For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer ( logographer ) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.

Francis Watt, writing in the Juridicial Review, portrays this as his strongest characteristic as a lawyer ; that he was a man who " having once taken up a point or become engaged in a case, believes in it with all his heart and soul, whilst all the time conscious of its weakness, as well as ready to resort to every device to bolster it up ".

Although Arbus's writing showed " great style and lucidity ", West's lawyer wrote a letter to the publisher claiming that Arbus's photographs were " unflattering " to West.

His mother tried to free her son ( who at 16 was still a minor ) by writing letters to the government ; his father went to a lawyer friend for legal support, but all efforts failed.

* Alexey Navalny — Russian lawyer and blogger, investigating and writing about corruption

As a lawyer, a civil-law notary prepares legal instruments of writing called notarial acts ( Fr acte notarié, Sp acta notarial, It atto notarile, Du notariële akte, Ger notarielle Urkunde, Notariatsurkunde ).

Born in Ireland, Burke had trained as a lawyer before abandoning this field and turning to writing.

However, in Roman Law states or provinces, notaries or " title attorneys ", provide many of the same services as a lawyer ( negotiation and drafting of contracts, legal advice, settlement of estates, creation of a company and its statuts, writing of wills and power of attorney, interpretation of the law, mediation, etc ...) except any involvement in disputes to be presented before a court.

Lester and his elder brother Vere Bird, Jr., also a British-educated lawyer, have been considered sometime rivals, with the New York Times writing in 1990 that Lester had always overshadowed his brother, according to those who have known them both.

After taking a break to pursue full-time writing, Auchincloss returned to working as a lawyer, firstly as an associate ( 1954 – 58 ) and then as a partner ( 1958 – 86 ) at Hawkins, Delafield and Wood in New York City as a wills and trusts attorney, while writing at the rate of a book a year.

Schachner, who was trained as a lawyer and a chemist, achieved his greatest success writing biographies of early American historical figures, after about a decade of writing science fiction short stories.

To assess why the king — or Fréjus — chose, or allowed, Bourbon to become premier ministre, says the French lawyer and writer d ' Angerville, writing in 1781:

On 6 May 1993, Bernardo instructed his lawyer, Ken Murray, in writing to enter the house and remove, but not to watch, six 8 mm videotapes hidden behind a pot light in the bathroom.

Admitted to the Virginia Bar Association, he practiced as a lawyer in Richmond between 1876 and 1893, and also began his writing career.

The weight of tradition is such that the lawyer writing such a document will often phrase it something like this:

The son of a wealthy lawyer in Bath, Bayly intended to become an attorney like his father, but he changed his mind and thought of entering the church, but he abandoned this idea also and gave himself to writing for the stage and the periodical press.

In early August 2005, leaked emails from former US prosecutors criticised the legal process, accusing it of being " a half-hearted and disorganised effort by a skeleton group of relatively inexperienced attorneys to prosecute fairly low-level accused in a process that appears to be rigged " and " writing a motion saying that the process will be full and fair when you don't really believe it is kind of hard, particularly when you want to call yourself an officer and lawyer ".

); A. W. Cooper ( 1886-1911 ), who served as a lawyer in Dothan and Luverne ; and Anna L. Cooper ( Mrs. R. D. Blackshear 1877-1957 ), who assisted her father in writing alto parts for the revision.

In addition to his successful career as a lawyer, Sorensen was also a frequent spokesman for liberal ideals and ideas, writing op-eds and delivering speeches on both domestic and international subjects.

Theobald is despairing of succeeding in writing dull poetry and plays, and he is debating whether to return to being a lawyer ( for that had been Theobald's first trade ) or to become a political hack.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

It is but justice to Mr. Steele for us to add that, in the above remarks, nothing is intended to his disparagement, either as a lawyer or as a printer.

The right to leave the hoosegow any time to see a lawyer instead of waiting for a lawyer to make a trip to the prison.

After being a lawyer for twenty-five years he started studying for the ministry.

My lawyer told me that his mother used a similar remedy for cuts and wounds ; ;

Probably a lawyer once said it best for all time in the Supreme Court of the United States.

A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

The 53-year-old Shea, a prominent corporation lawyer with a sports background, is generally recognized as the man most responsible for the imminent return of a National League club to New York.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

In many other jurisdictions it is for the defense lawyer to mitigate on his client's behalf, and the defendant himself will rarely have the opportunity to speak.

The lawyer is an officer of the court and knows that a false swearing by him, if found out, could be grounds for severe penalty up to and including disbarment.

Equally, the acceptance that a lawyer is an officer of the court ( for swearing the affidavit ) is not a given.

The Supreme Court held that for the plea to be accepted, the defendant must have been advised by a competent lawyer who was able to inform the individual that his best decision in the case would be to enter a guilty plea.

Dmitri's grandfather Ivan had been a prominent lawyer in Tsarist Russia who had displayed respect for social awareness and humanitarian principles ( including advocating the abolition of capital punishment ) that would later influence his grandson.

Barbara Olson ( December 27, 1955 September 11, 2001 ) was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets.

The language used earlier is that of a judicial judgement, in which God is both judge of and lawyer for Job.

* Of Counsel – A lawyer working on a part-time or temporary basis for a company or law firm.

During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town F. C .. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar in 1906.

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.