Also, anyone suing for accident damages with the help of a no-win, no-fee lawyer - known as a conditional fee arrangement - will in future have to pay their lawyer's success fee from their own funds if they win their case and not add it to the bill of the losing party.

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Particularly when such actions are taken together, they will have the effect of institutionalizing the core notion behind Mr. Obama's brand of what his top international lawyer (and prospective future Supreme Court nominee), State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, calls "transnationalism": A new world order in which the United States is simply one nation among many, subject to a higher - if utterly unaccountable - authority.

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That's how Pollak, chief executive of Manhattan-based American Lawyer Media, envisions the future of his company -- a sticky web of timely gossip, breaking news and profitable spinoffs like newsletters, books, conferences and CDs.

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That being said, if Cleveland wants to show off this deal in the future, they might wish to get a good contracts lawyer to parse the details before ink is set to paper.

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The precedent of this case could end up being that everyone actively working in a crisis situation needs to lawyer-up in order to protect them from future prosecution.

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The court granted a request by his lawyer, John Norris, for a publication ban on future evidence and testimony.

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