U. S. Attorneys who prosecuted Whitacre ; two prosecutors from the Canadian Department of Justice ; several Senators and Congressmen ; Cornell University and Ohio State University professors ; Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew ; Chuck Colson ; and numerous top executives of corporations.

In May 2012 the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

Attorneys and judges may not want to forfeit the revenues from such a lucrative " business " and there is a pejorative label given to non-custodial parents who resist the child support.

Attorneys, bankers, and investment analysts from nearby Wall Street investment firms tried to protect many of the students but were themselves attacked, and onlookers reported that the police stood by and did nothing.

Attorneys Samuel Leibowitz, Walter H. Pollak and Osmond Frankel argued the case from February 15 to February 18, 1935.

In the United States, the word differs in meaning from its English counterpart because Attorneys in the United States exercise all the functions distributed in England between barristers and solicitors.

Despite this it is considered preferable to exclude Attorneys General from cabinet meetings so as to draw a distinct line between them and the political decisions on which they are giving legal advice.

Keating served as the US Attorney from 1981 until 1984, serving for part of that time as chairman of all US Attorneys.

This article contains material from the US Department of Justice Attorneys General of the United States which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.

In Germany, only Patent Attorneys ( or Attorneys-at-Law, who are entitled to represent clients in all fields of law ) are entitled to represent clients from abroad before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office ( DPMA ).

In 2003 Fagan and South African law firm Ngcebetsha Madlanga Attorneys attempted to sue Anglo American, the word's second-biggest mining company, diamond producer De Beers, Sasol Ltd., which supplies about 44 percent of South Africa's motor fuel, and Fluor Corporation, a California-based engineering company, claiming that the companies profited from South Africa's racial discrimination policies that ended in 1994.

Attorneys, originally explicitly excepted from the definition of a debt collector, have been included ( to the extent that they otherwise meet the definition ) since 1986.

At the same time, the said group of attorneys made public a formely classified report of the State's Council of Public Attorneys which asked the State to press charges at the courts for banning the MST by having it declared as an illegal organization, a task for which the report considered further investigations useless, " as it was public knowledge that the movement and its leadership were guilty of engaging in organized criminality ". The report proposed also that, in municipalities where the presence of MST activists could " cause electoral disequilibrium ", said activists ' franchise was to be withdrawn by striking them from the voters ' registry.

* The Role of a Forensic Psychiatrist in Legal Proceedings, by Harold J. Bursztajn, MD, 1993, from Journal of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys with permission of Harold J. Bursztajn, MD.

The draft, dated October 23, 2001, was produced by Gostin without consultation from any of the various groups he listed on the title page as being " in collaboration with ", namely, the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and the National Association of City and County Health Officials.

Attorneys general from 32 other states and the District of Columbia signed onto the agreement: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, wrote to Miers in January 2006 to recommend that the Department of Justice and the Office of the Counsel to the President work together to seek the replacement of a limited number of U. S. Attorneys, saying that limiting the number of attorneys " targeted for removal and replacement " would " mitigat the shock to the system that would result from an across-the-board firing.

" The positive outcome of this investigation is testament to the strong partnerships we have established with our counterparts at the headquarters and field offices of various organizations, from the FBI and Department of Justice to the Internal Revenue Service and U. S. Attorneys ' Office in Little Rock ," said K. C.

APL headquarters and the Justice Department in Washington often lost control over field operations, to the point that U. S. Attorneys and BOI agents, assisted by cadres of volunteers from the APL and other similar patriotic auxiliaries, pursued suspects of disloyalty on their own initiative and in their own manner.

He was assistant to five successive United States Attorneys General ( Homer Cummings, Frank Murphy, Robert Jackson, Francis Biddle and Tom Clark ) from 1938 to 1945.

Attorneys, bankers and investment analysts from nearby Wall Street investment firms tried to protect many of the students but were themselves attacked.

Attorneys who violate professional responsibility rules may be subject to sanctions ranging from reprimands to temporary suspension to permanent disbarment.

Earl J. Silbert is a prominent American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1974 to 1979, and served, along with two other U. S. Attorneys, as the first prosecutor in the infamous Watergate scandal.

He worked as an attorney in Sofia between 1979 and 1990, serving as Secretary of the Bulgarian Attorneys ' Union from 1989 onwards.

Prior to founding CREW in 2003, she served as one of more than 300 Assistant U. S. Attorneys in the District of Columbia from 1998 to 2003 after having worked for Congressional Democrats John Conyers, Charles Schumer, and Joseph Biden.

The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U. S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U. S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.

* Economic Espionage and Trade Secrets, U. S. Attorneys ' Bulletin ( 2009 ).

Special agents are normally plain clothes officers who carry concealed firearms, and other defensive equipment, make arrests, carry out complex criminal investigations, present cases for prosecution to U. S. Attorneys, and prepare investigative reports.

* Executive Office for U. S. Attorneys ( EOUSA )

The majority of state Attorneys General are chosen by popular election, as opposed to the U. S. Attorney General who is a presidential appointee.

Marshals paid the fees and expenses of the court clerks, U. S. Attorneys, jurors, and witnesses.

David Iglesias later became a United States Attorney, and was one of eight U. S. Attorneys dismissed by the George W. Bush administration.

Finally Gregory, a few weeks before the end of the war, instructed the U. S. Attorneys not to act without his approval.

Eddie Antar's fraud trial began in June, and was prosecuted jointly by U. S. Attorneys Paul Weissman and Michael Chertoff.

Notable exceptions to this rule include United States Attorneys, U. S. Marshals and commissioned military officers who do not receive this title, although they are confirmed by the Senate.

There are 93 U. S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Each U. S. Attorney is the chief federal law enforcement officer within his or her particular jurisdiction, acting under the guidance of the United States Attorneys ' Manual.

U. S. Attorneys and their offices are part of the Department of Justice.

U. S. Attorneys receive oversight, supervision and administrative support services through the Justice Department's Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

Selected U. S. Attorneys participate in the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys.

Prior to the existence of the Department of Justice, the U. S. Attorneys were independent of the Attorney General, and did not come under the AG's supervision and authority until 1870, with the creation of the Department of Justice.

The Attorney General has had the authority since 1986 to appoint interim U. S. Attorneys to fill a vacancy.

This, in effect, extinguished the 120 day limit on interim U. S. Attorneys, and their appointment had an indefinite term.

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys ( EOUSA ) provides the administrative support for the 93 United States Attorneys ( encompassing 94 United States Attorneys ' offices, as the Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands has a single U. S. Attorney for both districts ), including: