One of Mr Silvani's ideas is to hire private lawyers to collect unpaid taxes.
In many instances, state AGs essentially relinquish authority over the course of litigation to the private lawyers hired.
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Tracy had a translator and private lawyers hired by him, or on his behalf, during the hearing, prosecutors said.
Ferraro contacted the White House after she saw Jones on a TV news broadcast, and has spoken several times to Clinton's private lawyers.
Delaying the decision on what to do about these provisions is a glorious annuity for lobbyists and creates more work for the IRS and private lawyers and accountants.
The legal fig leaf is mainly to avoid giving the myriad private lawyers who pile on to such cases an adverse ruling to use in their own litigation.
McKenna noted that two private lawyers had predicted such suits were coming in a column for the Legal Intelligencer, but said so far none had been filed.
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Deconcini says that's why U.S. detention standards, which she helped write, mandate that detainees have an easy way to make phone calls to their families, embassies and private lawyers.
The private lawyers who represented the states are still pulling several hundred millions of dollars in fees a year from the settlement, which is scheduled to run at least through 2023.
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Critics say the arrangements can provide political payoffs and cede an important measure of discretion to private lawyers who may pursue a case with little merit because it has the potential for a rich settlement.
The Obama administration has been helping out private lawyers by filing amicus briefs in some of those cases including this one stating how the Labor Dept. has shifted its interpretation of certain key regulations to support their claims.
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Now, there will be some rich lawyers and dentists who are paying higher taxes while the far richer hedge fund and private equity moguls the lawyers and dentists work for will experience less of a tax hit.
More recently there's news of private equity firms hiring lawyers as in-house counsel to advise the firms on their own legal troubles.
Underlying this concern is the notion that lawyers in private practice choose sides, thus becoming tainted, and lose the capacity to serve the public.
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Lawyers have filed private petitions before the Supreme Court alleging Musharraf committed various treasonable offenses, including toppling a civilian government, suspending the constitution and declaring a state of emergency.
People can, of course, hire their own lawyers and bring private prosecutions if they so choose, but most victims in riots are poor and illiterate and cannot afford the legal fees over years and years.
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Even James Murdoch admitted, in evidence to MPs, that last week's revelation that his company had hired a private detective to spy on lawyers representing the victims of phone-hacking and their families was "appalling" and "unacceptable".
There will be a natural tendency by practitioners to treat materiality and scienter as high hurdles for a government prosecution, an SEC enforcement action, or a private civil claim because these lawyers have treated Shariah as a black box into which they have refused to peer.
His record of taking money from lawyers who profit from private litigation that often follows closely on the heels of government investigations could provide fodder for his enemies.
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If industry funding provides grounds to claim bias, collaborating with trial lawyers and running a private company designed to test for the chemical you have denounced for the past decade is hardly evidence of academic disinterest.
With much less to gain in damage awards, lawyers acting for cities or private plaintiffs are likely to be far less persistent in pursuing gun makers if, as looks certain, they fight back with determination.
Lawyers for the government and a private company owning the land said they were concerned about the health of the squatters if they are allowed to stay.
Americans should ask themselves if more litigation will really result in greater justice, or if it is just another way for lawyers to drain money from the private economy and another deterrent to job creation.
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If the bill becomes law, special security-cleared lawyers would argue about the material in private, and defendants would also not be able to know the evidence used against them.
Dealing two blows to presidential confidentiality , the Supreme Court ruled that the president's bodyguards were not exempt from testifying about his private behaviour, and that his conversations with government lawyers could not remain confidential.
He warned of the risks of allowing non-lawyers to own legal practices, and said private capital could jeopardise the independence of law firms.
Even Sherk acknowledges, however, that some highly educated federal workers, such as engineers, lawyers and economists, earn less than their private sector counterparts.
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Could we attract talented lawyers to public service without the freedom to reenter private practice?
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Here, big private firms are dealing with each other mostly using bankers and lawyers.
Lawyers for Katherine Jackson wanted details of the payments kept private but Judge Mitchell Beckloff said in court he did not think the total amount could remain sealed.
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