Sentences with phrase «defense counsel who»

And for the judge, the beauty is that she gets to directly interact with the offender, without pesky defense counsel who may well not be present at the bail hearing.

Shigley believes that any changes in the law should apply equally, both to PI attorneys and also to defense counsel who approach victims immediately after an accident.

The case was earlier stalled on Thursday due to the absence of the defense counsel who wrote to the court that he had to be in Kogi state for an election petition matter.

Not exact matches

Sol Wisenberg, a defense attorney who was a deputy independent counsel during the Starr special counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton, said the comment «obviously increases the president's exposure to potential campaign finance violations, but it also makes him look terrible.»

The God who in Christ was reconciling the alienated uncomprehending world to himself is perhaps more ready than his defense counsel to admit responsibility and show that he is sharing the consequences.

Until the IRS sorts out who can authorize church audits, churches are left in limbo, said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) senior legal counsel Erik Stanley.

Paul Sabatino, a former counsel to the Suffolk Legislature and chief deputy county executive who helped craft Suffolk's ethics code, said if Prudenti took money from defense attorneys for use of the Christina Marie, it was improper.

Legal luminary, Dr. Maurice Ampaw, who is the Defense counsel for four accused: Osarfo Anthony, Ekow Micah, Sarah Kwablah, in an ongoing case of extortion on Thursday, 1st September, 2016, disclosed to court how Asamoah Gyan asked Sarah Kwablah to abort the pregnancy for any amount of money she wants.

«It obviously increases the president's exposure to potential campaign finance violations, but it also makes him look terrible,» said Sol Wisenberg, a defense attorney who was a deputy independent counsel during the Starr special counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton.

(Smith's defense was eventually taken over by Jim Long, who worked as a counsel to the Senate Dems).

Indeed, the assault against communitybased food has gotten so violent in recent years that the international Weston A. Price Foundation has founded the Farm - To - Consumer Legal Defense Fund to provide pro-bono real - time legal counsel for farmers like me who routinely face government violence.

Specifically, he asks, «When you are a defense counsel in a civil case who discovers that a plaintiffs» claim is fraudulent, do you have a duty to disclose this to the trial court?»

Drinker Biddle & Reath has bolstered its white - collar criminal defense and corporate investigations practice with the addition of partner SCOTT COFFINA, who will be based in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Coffina is a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former associate counsel to President George W. Bush.

I was retained by the Associate General Counsel of a well - known defense contractor who believed that if his clients used project management...

Held: The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that no indigent criminal defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment unless the State has afforded him the right to assistance of appointed counsel in his defense, but do not require a state trial court to appoint counsel for a criminal defendant, such as petitioner, who is charged with a statutory offense for which imprisonment upon conviction is authorized but not imposed.

Greenberg was one of the lawyers, along with Thurgood Marshall, who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954, when he was assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (and Marshall was its chief counsel).

For example, I had launched my practice about two years before I attended a state bar annual meeting in California where I manned a booth for a while in the exhibit hall with some colleagues who do the same exact work that I do, the small group of us that are part of a trade association in California, the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel.

Nevada's Indigent Defense Commission is tasked with making sure that the state's system for providing counsel to criminal defendants who can not afford to retain their own lawyers is adequately staffed and running as smoothly as possible.

And this duty also constrains the defense counsel in sexual assault cases who would attack the complainant with all they've got, including sexual histories and therapeutic records.

And so then not only has the insured, the attorney who has filed the collection action, not only have they incurred cost for the lawyer that they retained and the collection action, they may have a deductible on their policy that they're paying for defense counsel assigned for the counterclaim, they may be losing lost billable hours.

«Steve is a great appellate lawyer,» said Ed O'Sheehan, who presented the award as Senior Defense Counsel for the 1565th Trial Defense Team.

Defense counsel argued that the plaintiffs lawyer, who I will refer to only as «Mr. P» since the statute of limitation for sloppiness has probably expired, was not entitled to his requested fee of $ 300 / hour «in light of the quality of his written work,» and U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacob P. Hart agreed.

This is not the best option for reasons that should be obvious, though it is sometimes the choice of attorneys who do not have the financial means to hire dedicated ethics defense counsel and have a friend or colleague willing to take on the matter pro bono.

Courtesy of Carolyn Elefant, I recommend the astonishing tale of solo criminal defense attorney Donna Thompson - Schneider, who hasn't visited her incarcerated clients, who hasn't been treated as well as her opposition counsel from the DA's office, who has been humiliated and patronized by prison staff, and who has written one hell of a letter (co-signed by 24 other attorneys) to Wisconsin Gov. James Doyle.

Mary L. Bonauto, the civil rights lawyer for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders who was lead counsel in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health — the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in 2003 that legalized same - sex marriage in the United States for the first time — said the suit asks the court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act because it targets gays and lesbians for discrimination.

Fortunately, for residents of Syracuse and other regions of upstate New York, the Law Office of Mark J. Sacco, located in Latham (a suburb of Albany) is prepared to offer vigorous criminal defense services to clients who have been accused or arrested for federal or white collar crimes, who require legal counsel, or who need to file appeals of their convictions.

Defense counsel was specially retained by an insurer for a physician who was denied coverage / immunity under Florida's Birth - Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act for failing to timely provide notice of his participation to the patient...

The court was asked to answer a question of first impression that was whether defense counsel, who represents the defendant Dr. Dale Brink and the defendant Performance Foot and Ankle LLC, is prohibited from conducting ex parte communications with McChristian's treating podiatrist, Dr. Timothy Krygsheld, who is also a member, and in the control group of the defendant.

If retained by a parent who is alleged to have abducted a child to a foreign jurisdiction, international counsel will assist the client to retain local counsel in the foreign jurisdiction, assist in preparing the defense and assist in defending any actions that the left - behind parent asserts in the state from which the child was removed.

The relationship soured and two attorneys working for the firm consulted in - house counsel, who began in internal investigation and preparations for a possible defense while the firm still represented the developer.

She is an experienced professional who enjoys providing her clients with quality legal assistance.The firm's mission is to provide affordable legal services to those in need of counsel related to domestic relationships, including family law, DCFS defense, guardianship, and orders of protection.

The Suit Report is forwarded to ICBC's Litigation Services Division who reviews the Suit Report and assigns counsel to the defense of the file.

Suing individual practitioners and corporations, rather than CAAR, was considered an attempt by Worrell Enterprises Inc., the owner of the Daily Progress, to divide the defendants, says Edward Lowry, coordinating defense counsel and Feil's attorney, who's with the firm of Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen & Tweel, P.C.