"Being a lawyer, the president knows that politicians cannot interfere in football matters, " Thompson said.
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To say that for many being a lawyer today is difficult may very well be an understatement.
Taken literally, they suggest that being a lawyer is incompatible with political success of even the lowest sort.
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Not being a lawyer, I had no idea how the court would rule, but as an economist, the question is really a no brainer.
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Obviously there are -- but there are lots of laws -- and I'm going out of my lane here, neither being a lawyer, nor a lawmaker -- but that are reserved for the states.
Being a lawyer yourself, you would agree that the accused must be aware of the allegations against him and evidence must be presented against him, so the accused could be able to counter it.
One of the most common questions I get asked is how I went from being a lawyer to becoming the CEO of a company that was once a division of a much larger publicly traded company.
And I could imagine being a lawyer.
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So we can at least theoretically suppose that those who would have been at the top of national economic competitions (which could be sport, writing, movie making, running a business, being a lawyer, whatever) could, as a result of globalisation, start taking part in global, not merely national, competition.
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The real ending result of this means nothing more than being a securities lawyer is going to become a HUGE growth industry.
He is being represented by a lawyer selected by the U.S. Embassy in Yangon.
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The second chapter deals with being employed as a lawyer outside the land of Islam.
"I saw this area of the law as one that would be growing and dynamic, and it satisfied my professional interests in being a criminal defense lawyer and also my personal interest in computers, " she says.
Many of the actions currently classified as contempt such as a lawyer being absent from court should be referred to the Disciplinary Board (headed by a sitting High Court judge), says Council member Mah.
Another was the appointment on September 15th of Gregory Craig, a State Department lawyer with a reputation for being a lot more street-smart in politics than Mr Clinton's private lawyer, David Kendall, to liaise with Congress.
But as well as being a scientist, Mr Rines was for 50 years a patent lawyer.
The Paris prosecutors, it seems, wanted to investigate the suspicion that he reduced the tax bill of Karl Lagerfeld, a pony-tailed couturier, in return for being given a video by Mr Lagerfeld's lawyer that implicated Jacques Chirac, France's president, in the political-financing scandal.
The Times describes a similar case in which a Texas lawyer is being financed by Stillwater Capital at 16%.
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They urged that Tsarnaev be held as an enemy combatant, a designation that allows a suspect to be questioned without a lawyer and without being Mirandized.
In the second scheme, a former compliance lawyer for Morgan Stanley and her husband, a private practice lawyer, tipped a trader about upcoming mergers and acquisitions being handled by the bank in exchange for a cut of the profits from trading ahead of the event.
Time was, being an in-house lawyer was a cushy, low-risk (and lower-paid) job than working for a big law firm.
It was almost painful to watch his testimony to the court - selective, speculative, and clearly loyal to the prosecution - being picked apart by a highly paid defence lawyer until the detective was forced to concede that all his bold assumptions about Oscar Pistorius's guilt were, on the current evidence, unsustainable.
"There is a definite trend that existing laws are being specifically refined to cover the Internet, " says David Ellis, a lawyer at Johnson Stokes and Masters.
In addition, judges would be required to have a minimum number of years as a qualified lawyer under their belts before being appointed.
"It's now harder and harder to go about our lives without being tracked everywhere, " said Ben Wizner, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who specializes in privacy and technology issues.
Father Robert Oliver, a lawyer from Boston, was speaking after being named as the Vatican's "Promoter of Justice".
Once, wrongful convictions because of lawyer error stood a good chance of being overturned on appeal, especially in death-penalty cases.
Following 16 hours of interrogation, Mr Tsarnaev stopped responding to investigators' questions after being read his legal rights to remain silent and have a lawyer, US media report.
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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