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lawyer and law
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.
The lawyer with whom I studied law steered me off the Socialist track.
`` My experience as public safety commissioner '', Roos said, `` has shown me that the office of sheriff is best filled by a man with law enforcement experience, and preferably one who is a lawyer.
He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.
Lincoln returned to practicing law in Springfield, handling " every kind of business that could come before a prairie lawyer ".
* Oral argument, in US law, a spoken presentation to a judge or appellate court by a lawyer ( or parties when representing themselves ) of the legal reasons why they should prevail
Lavoisier received a law degree and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced as a lawyer.
* Attorney at law, a lawyer in some countries
The common law trial lawyer has ample opportunity to uncover the truth in a laboratory called the courtroom.
In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: " I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer.
In legal firms the title is used to indicated a lawyer who is not a partner of the law firm.
* Of Counsel – A lawyer working on a part-time or temporary basis for a company or law firm.
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.
Disbarment is the removal of a lawyer from a bar association or the practice of law, thus revoking his or her law license or admission to practice law.
Bellamy briefly studied law but abandoned that field without ever having practiced as a lawyer, instead entering the world of journalism.
In that era most criminal prosecutions were conducted by private parties, either a law enforcement officer, a lawyer hired by a crime victim or his family, or even by laymen.
Trained as a lawyer he chose the profession of journalism, and wrote about contemporary issues and most importantly about Islam and Islamic law.
Two decades later in 1592, he began his study of philosophy and law in Ingolstadt, after which he moved to Augsburg to begin work as a lawyer, eventually becoming legal adviser to the city council there.
From 1963 to 1971 Reno worked as a lawyer for two Miami law firms.

lawyer and black
In 1967, under the leadership of a young black lawyer named Lynden Pindling, the PLP were elected and went on to lead The Bahamas into independence in 1973.
* Robert Sutherland ( c. 1830-1878 ), Canada's first black lawyer, and an important benefactor and alumnus of Queen's University
These residents supported a saw mill, a turpentine still, a syrup factory, a black smith, a newspaper, a lawyer, two carpenters, and three general stores.
Before A. C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.
The action takes place at Titusville where the black gold rush also attracts a crooked lawyer who takes over the town and the oilfields.
The list of local and alternate names the bowfin is known by is lengthy, but common ones include " dogfish ", " mudfish ", " grindle " ( or " grinnel ")," swamp muskie ", " black fish ", " cottonfish " " swamp bass ", " poisson-castor ", " Speckled Cat " " beaverfish ", " Cypress trout " and " lawyer ".
Chestnut, a black lawyer, recalled, " Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of.
MacCormack, a cultivated and humane New York lawyer, thereupon managed to persuade Secretary of War Stimson to reprieve Kyoto and have it crossed off the black list.
She graduated as a lawyer at the age of 60 in 1883, becoming only the second black woman in the United States to earn a law degree.
Some episodes include the town still trying to operate when Carmen is bedridden with a broken leg (" The Carmen Tango "), Lencho trying to attract a famous black widow spider dancer to perform in the town (" A Widow Goes a Long Way "), and one where a mosquito lawyer named Emma Squito comes to town, and everyone in the town is caught up in a suing frenzy, in exchange for Emma sucking the blood from each of her clients (" Sue City ").
Powell, like most white Southern leaders of his day, did not speak out against the state's defiance, but he would foster a close relationship with many black leaders, such as civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill, some of whom offered key support for Powell's nomination.
Furthermore, the intricate nature of Italian laws allowed cunning lawyers to use many delaying tactics: an instructive example was a prosecution of Silvio Berlusconi, where he was accused of misappropriation of funds of his own company, Fininvest, in order to prepare black funds that could have been used for bribes or other illegitimate purposes ; on the last possible day, a lawyer from Fininvest appeared in court and complained that his company had not been formally notified of the trial.
Strong was a young black slave from Barbados who had been so badly beaten by his master, David Lisle, a lawyer, that he had been cast out into the street as useless.
Her father was an Ohio State University law school graduate who was unable to find employment a black lawyer ; her mother was a former teacher who once lived on a Native American reservation.
While they are in the woods, a shiny black 4-door Lincoln ( a black 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham in the film ) arrives, and soon W. Jerome " Romey " Clifford, a 44-year old lawyer from New Orleans, Louisiana, gets out of the car.
When a lawyer argued that McCree could not impartially decide a case involving a black and a white litigant McCree replied: " the ultimate of arrogance is achieved when a white person thinks another white person can make a judgment without being influenced by race, and a black person cannot.
* John Sweat Rock, born free in New Jersey, 19th c. teacher, doctor, lawyer, abolitionist, first black admitted to the US Supreme Court Bar.
In 1991, Little was cast as a civil rights lawyer in the TV docudrama, Separate But Equal, starring Sidney Poitier, who portrayed the first black U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, NAACP lead attorney in the 1954 Supreme Court case desegregating public schools.
During the course of an ever-busy life, Clarina Nichols served as teacher, lecturer, editor, writer, farmer, lay doctor and lawyer, government clerk, matron in a home for destitute black children and widows, and conductor on the Underground Railroad.
The CIA moved him back to one of their black sites on March 27, 2004 as they feared he could gain access to a lawyer in Guantanamo.
These include Charles " Cap'm Charlie " Croker, a real estate mogul and member of Atlanta's high society who is suddenly facing bankruptcy ; Martha Croker, his first wife, trying to maintain her social standing without her husband ; Ray Peepgass, who is trying to illegally capitalize on Croker's fall ; Roger " Too White " White II, a prominent black lawyer ; and Conrad Hensley, a young man in prison who discovers Stoic philosophy.
Despite his losses, the personable young lawyer and preacher attracted not only black voters but liberal whites as well.

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