Some examples of reversible error would be erroneously instructing the jury on the law applicable to the case, permitting seriously improper argument by an attorney, admitting or excluding evidence improperly, acting outside the court's jurisdiction, injecting bias into the proceeding or appearing to do so, juror misconduct, etc.

Anita Faye Hill ( born July 30, 1956 ) is an American attorney and academic, currently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

* Revised Code of Washington 9. 12. 010: " Every person who brings on his or her own behalf, or instigates, incites, or encourages another to bring, any false suit at law or in equity in any court of this state, with intent thereby to distress or harass a defendant in the suit, or who serves or sends any paper or document purporting to be or resembling a judicial process, that is not in fact a judicial process, is guilty of a misdemeanor ; and in case the person offending is an attorney, he or she may, in addition thereto be disbarred from practicing law within this state.

Generally disbarment is imposed as a sanction for conduct indicating that an attorney is not fit to practice law, willfully disregarding the interests of a client, or engaging in fraud which impedes the administration of justice.

Represented by attorney Robert Winslow and the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP, courts awarded Day $ 1 million punitive damages, $ 5. 6 million plus $ 2 million interest for losses incurred in a sham oil venture ; $ 3. 4 million plus $ 1. 2 million interest over a hotel venture ; $ 2. 2 million plus $ 793, 800 interest for duplicate or unnecessary fees paid to Rosenthal ; more than $ 2 million to recoup loans to Rosenthal ; $ 3. 9 million plus $ 1 million interest for fraud, and $ 850, 000 attorney fees for Day.

See also United States environmental law and David Sive, an attorney who was involved in the case.

In a non-criminal case in a United States district court, a litigant ( or a litigant's attorney ) who presents any pleading, written motion or other paper to the court is required, under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to certify that, to the best of the presenter's knowledge and belief, the legal contentions " are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law ".

In most states, every attorney must be a member of that state's bar association in order to practice law.

After graduation, Polk traveled to Nashville to study law under renowned Nashville trial attorney Felix Grundy.

However, John R. Neal, a law school professor from Knoxville, announced that he would act as Scopes ' attorney whether Scopes liked it or not, and he became the nominal head of the defense team.

The trust is created by drafting a trust deed ( usually in co-operation with an attorney specialising in trust law ) and registering the trust with the local High Court ( the Master of the High Court is the court official that administers trusts ).

Boies was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he started upon law school graduation in 1966 and became a partner in 1973.

Mayor Daley is a brother of William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serves as its chairman of the County Board's Finance Committee ; and Micheal Daley, an attorney with Daley & George, a law firm founded by their father Richard J. Daley, that specializes in zoning law and is often hired by developers to help get zoning changes from City Hall.

See also United States environmental law and David Sive, an attorney who was involved in the case.

** Patent agent or patent attorney, person who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.

In the common law tradition, anyone who represents the state, especially in criminal prosecutions, is such an attorney.

* Enduring power of attorney in law

In the United States, states take primary responsibility for regulating lawyers, while specific federal courts generally allow almost anyone admitted to the practice of law in the state in their jurisdiction to practice law before them if the attorney is in good standing with all state courts to which the attorney is admitted.

* Carl Jackson: Junior attorney in Mason's law firm.

An ambitious associate attorney at Gerald's law firm assists her in covering up the real incident to protect her and the law firm from scandal, as well as assisting her in her recuperation.

Joseph's son, Benjamin J. Altheimer, became a successful attorney, establishing the prominent Chicago law firm of Altheimer, Mayer, Woods, and Smith ( later known as Altheimer & Gray ), and serving twice as president of Chicago's Iroquois Club, the city's oldest Democratic Party political club.

* John Doar, Civil rights attorney and partner in the law firm Doar, Drill, and Skow on South Knowles Avenue in New Richmond.

She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003 and became an associate attorney at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

The court assigned him a prominent Washington, D. C. attorney, Abe Fortas of the law firm Arnold Fortas & Porter, a future Supreme Court justice.

The Boy Scouts of America were represented by attorney George Davidson, a partner in the New York-based law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

* Prominent foreclosure defense attorney Matthew Weidner was sued by Nationwide Title, a foreclosure processing firm.

Lauren Abramson, an attorney with the firm, said she immediately felt uncomfortable and threatened by Ferguson.

Conflict of interest rules prevent one attorney in a law firm from, for example, representing a client in litigation that has an adverse interest to the interests of another client represented by a different attorney in the same law firm.

Christofferson is a litigation attorney for the O ’ Melveny & Myers law firm and was Miss North Dakota USA in 1989.

Instead, Stevens was offered a job with the Fairbanks, Alaska, law firm of Emil Usibelli's Alaska attorney, Charles Clasby, whose firm – Collins and Clasby – had just lost one of its attorneys.

In 1828, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he started clerking with a law firm as an alternative route to certification as an attorney.

Created by Dykema Gossett attorney Richard D. McLellan and located in the same building as the Dykema Gossett law firm, Cornerstone ’ s original board included McLellan, then-Senator John Engler, and D. Joseph Olson then General Council for Amerisure Insurance.

Villard's financial embarrassment caused the collapse of the stock exchange firm of Decker, Howell, & Co., and Villard's attorney, William Nelson Cromwell, used $ 1, 000, 000 to promptly settle with creditors.

Garrison worked for New Orleans law firm Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles from 1954 to 1958, when he became an assistant district attorney.

In the legal profession, the duty of loyalty owed to a client prohibits an attorney ( or a law firm ) from representing any other party with interests adverse to those of a current client.

As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.

She also successfully sued MCA / Decca with the assistance of noted entertainment attorney Cy Godfrey.

He successfully persuaded the Department of Labor to ease its insistence on promptly alerting those arrested of their right to an attorney.

Spence turned himself in so that he would be protected in Behan's jail, but his attorney successfully blocked his wife's testimony.

The key element of evidence for the prosecution was a videotape showing DeLorean discussing the drugs deal with undercover FBI agents Benedict ( Ben ) Tisa and West, although DeLorean's attorney Howard Weitzman successfully demonstrated to the court that he was coerced into participation in the deal by the agents who initially approached him as legitimate investors.

1935 ), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, having been defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U. S. Representative Thad Cochran, who ran successfully to succeed James O. Eastland for the other Mississippi seat in the U. S. Senate.

Many administration officials reported later that Clinton initially considered nominating the First Lady Hillary Clinton, a prominent attorney, professor, activist, and executive, for Attorney General ; however anti-nepotism laws put in place in 1967 after president John F. Kennedy successfully appointed his brother Robert F. Kennedy attorney general prohibited this.

Speaking at UNA in 2005, famed civil rights attorney Fred Gray, who defended Gunn, recalled that the hearing that ultimately integrated UNA lasted only ten minutes, after which Gunn returned to campus and enrolled successfully.

Charles S. Hill, his widow's attorney, stated that Keely's secret did not exist in manuscript form, but that Keely had suggested before his death that an inventor, Thomas Burton Kinraide of Boston, was the one man who could successfully carry on his work.

During his years as attorney general the Democratic-Republicans successfully gained control of most of Worcester's political establishment, even while much of Massachusetts ( and even Worcester County ) remained generally Federalist.

The burial party eventually returned, however, with a deputy sheriff ( courtesy of Robert E. Crowe the Republican state's attorney ) and was successfully able to legally dedicate Burr Oak.

Founded by sports agent and attorney James Sears Bryant, the Storm successfully captured the USBL championship under head coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2002, defeating Kansas with a final score of 122-109.

In 1879, she successfully petitioned Congress to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, becoming the first woman attorney given this privilege.

Izzy and Moe soon successfully raid underground bars all over the city, and arrest such high-profile people as the district attorney.

* 2005 – Paul J. Morrison, ( Kansas ) Johnson County District Attorney, to run successfully for attorney general in 2006

Appointed lead trial attorney, Prosper successfully prosecuted the matter of the Prosecutor against Jean-Paul Akayesu, the first-ever case of genocide under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

As a United States attorney, from 1968 to 1970, he established a remarkable conviction record in the fight against organized crime, successfully prosecuting more than 150 people.

As an attorney, he successfully argued to have the murder convictions of serial-killer Juan Corona overturned on appeal, and represented Corona in his retrial which resulted in 25 convictions for murder and a life sentence.

Middlebrooks is a criminal defense attorney who claims on his web site that he “ handles all types of serious crimes, as well as traffic offenses, such as driving with a suspended driver ’ s license, driving after revocation, driving without insurance, reckless driving, and DUI ” and has “ successfully defended hundreds of clients facing serious criminal charges .” Middlebrooks is the sole partner in the Glen Burnie law firm known as C. Edward Middlebrooks, P. A ..

The first case of the game presents defense attorney Phoenix Wright at his first trial under Mia Fey's watchful eye, successfully defending his childhood friend Larry Butz for murder.

The firm's multi-disciplinary attorney teams coordinate between practice groups and offices to provide the scope and depth of legal skill necessary to serve the firm's clients most successfully.

After receiving a sentence of 10 years in Missouri State prison, Pastor Stokes and her attorney, Seymour Stedman of Chicago, Illinois, successfully appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri.

Aylsworth Crawford Greene III ( born December 21, 1952 ) is an American attorney from San Anselmo, California, noted for having successfully conducted litigation against Scientology and alleged cults.