Mr James' lawyers said he had a duty to respond to criticism of his and the council's conduct.
One of the defendants' lawyers, James Connell, predicted the trial would take years to complete.
After the hearing, one of his lawyers, James Brosnahan, accused US Attorney General John Ashcroft of using "inappropriate" language and taking out his frustrations about terrorism on Mr Walker Lindh.
James Spears and his lawyers likely worry that if the conservatorship ends right after the Lufti lawsuit was dismissed, and while the case is on appeal, it would appear as if the conservatorship was merely a cover to protect Britney from the lawsuit.
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Lawyers for Mr James and the council say there has been no infringement of Mrs Thompson's rights.
Lawyers for Mr James said she carried out a "wholly improper" campaign.
If Obama wins and Democrats solidify their majority in Congress, the new president will be handed a slew of bills designed to expand the ways lawyers can sue, said James Copland, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
James has hand-built bikes for trial lawyers, investment bankers and celebrities like Kid Rock and Keanu Reeves.
As the trial has progressed, lawyers representing Lehman, liquidation trustee James W. Giddens and the official committee of unsecured creditors have probed various witnesses over a number of disputed assets that they contend should not have been part of the deal.
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Mr James acknowledged "various procedural shortcomings" on the part of lawyers representing the family.
By the time the law firm got around to filing, the one-year statute of limitations had expired, says James Rosen, the attorney Blanks hired to sue his former lawyers.
In 2004 a Loudoun County, Va. judge threw out James Dunford's mesothelioma suit against Ford and other automotive parts makers because Dunford's lawyers failed to disclose claims they'd made against bankruptcy trusts in other states.
After the conference the AMA's president, Nancy Nielsen, and her soon-to-be successor, James Rohack, gushed with enthusiasm, in particular because of the mention of malpractice reform (trial lawyers represent an important constituency for Democrats, and oppose malpractice changes).
Named plaintiffs were barred from sharing their lawyers' fees, because they would have an incentive to maximise rather than minimise them, says James Copland, director of the Centre for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute.
Within days of the revelation that author James Frey may have fudged some of the details in his 2003 "memoir" A Million Little Pieces, lawyers filed the first of at least three suits seeking millions of dollars in damages from allegedly defrauded consumers.
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