Prosecutor Joel Smith said theirs was a "persistent campaign" designed to "cause damage, financial losses and press exposure".

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Nadler and Joel Barras of Reed Smith LLP is the second in a three-part series on the impact of the presidential election on employers.

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Nadler and Joel S. Barras of Reed Smith LLP is the first in a three-part series on the impact of the presidential election on employers.

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Joel Barras, an attorney at Reed Smith LLP represents a variety of regional and national employers in collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and employment-related litigation.

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Martin Joel Erzinger, a billion dollar Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisor, managed to dodge felony charges on a hit-and-run incident that left his victim with spinal cord injuries and bleeding from the brain.

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Peterson's current attorneys contended his former lead attorney, Joel Brodsky, botched the initial trial and had been the one to decide to call Smith to the stand.

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