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In sketching out an agenda for future research and potential reforms, this Article closes with a call to action for all policy - makers and academics concerned with sentencing systems to focus needed attention on defense counsel's role and impact on sentencing outcomes.

In criminal law, attorneys frequently report to us that the prosecution will do a data dump on defense counsel, effectively burying any exculpatory information in a sea of data.

Ms. Vennos served on the Defense Counsel Steering Committee for the Consolidated Docket in the Eastern District of New York for Superstorm Sandy litigation.

We don't know how much pressure trial judges will exert on defense counsel....

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«We know they have been or are looking to hire criminal defense counsel,» Ackman said at the 13D Monitor Active Passive Investor Summit on Monday.

Boehner directed the House general counsel to defend DOMA against litigation after the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group on March 9 voted 3 - 2 along party lines to take up defense of the statute.

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.

He was latter considered on bail on the 3rd of September 2014 by Chief Magistrate, Basiru after his defense counsel A. O Sanusi made an oral application.

However, the defense counsel, Barrister Muritala Agboola said the postponement is a result of procedural error on the part of prosecution.

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.

Silver's defense team previously argued the testimony of Lisa Reid, executive director and counsel to the state Legislative Ethics Commission, regarding Silver's financial disclosure forms was irrelevant, as the Manhattan Democrat wasn't on trial for failing to appropriately file state forms.

At the same time, the defense argued that Silver's actions were never criminal — sometimes with clear success, as when the government turned to Lisa Reid, the executive director and counsel to the state's bipartisan Legislative Ethics Commission, to shed light on Silver's annual financial disclosure filings.

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person's right to counsel,» said Bob Perry is the New York Civil Liberties Union legislative director.

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From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Bradbury headed the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advised the executive branch on a wide range of constitutional and statutory questions, and where he received the Edmund J. Randolph Award and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, among other awards.

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If consumers want to avoid plastic beads, the Natural Resources Defense Counsel recommends not purchasing products with «polyethylene» or «polypropylene» on their labels.

The participants in the policy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resources).

On the same panel, Mark Brownstein, chief counsel of the Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, noted that fracking is already subject to federal clean air and water rules, but a lot of regulation has to come from the states themselves.

«This is significant because it is the first time scientists have demonstrated the human fingerprint on a particular weather event with the kind of certainty that would stand up in court,» said Annie Petsonk, Environmental Defense's international counsel.

Now it's on Montreal,» said Annie Petsonk, international counsel at the Washington D.C. - based Environmental Defense Fund.

The minority disagreed, finding that whether collateral to Padilla's defense or not, the lawyer's erroneous advice, in response to an affirmative inquiry by the defendant, was inexcusable and justified a hearing on the ineffective assistance of counsel claim.

After an aside in which she wondered why anyone would even want her job of federal judge, the court further scolded defense counsel on their approach to the matter, adding

According to the e-mail, the panel dismissed the charges at the close of the disciplinary counsel's evidence, before the attorneys were even required to put on their defense.

«And the county counsel comes in and tells the judge on the record I'm fishing and there's no such thing as inmate movement records,» recalls Crawford, a solo defense lawyer in Orange, California.

The defense counsel on the other hand will look to highlight any residual functional capacities and employment / retraining opportunities to mitigate their exposure to the plaintiffs future financial losses.

Cohen Milstein, along with co-counsel, represents a large union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, as defense counsel in this lawsuit filed on June 14, 2017.

He was lead counsel in the federal and appellate courts and on the briefs in the United State Supreme Court on behalf of the County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Flood Control District in Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 710 (2013), a unanimous ruling in favor of his client.

«Comment and Opposition by Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Texas Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates on Alternate Business Structures.»

Counsel health care organizations on regulatory compliance; provide defense to health care entities facing federal or state government audits; and defend health care providers in licensure actions.

Mr. Ivey's practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, Congressional and grand jury investigations, civil litigation, regulatory matters, crisis management counseling and internal corporate investigations.

On rare occassions, I've had defense counsel bring motions to dismiss when they truly think the case no merit (note: none have succeeded).

«Defense counsel repeatedly missed deadlines, ignored rules, engaged in litigation over conduct that was plainly illegal (namely, the right to tape counsel and the Court without consent), and even went so far as to post the illegal recordings on the web...»

If it's true that many death penalty convictions are likely to be vacated based on ineffective assistance of counsel, would a defense attorney be ethically obligated to provide an inadequate defense if that's what it took to save his client's life?

On the eve of another Vioxx trial starting Monday in New Orleans, Phillip Beck, Merck's lead defense counsel in federal court, discusses his defense of Merck as our guest on this week's legal - affairs podcast Coast to CoasOn the eve of another Vioxx trial starting Monday in New Orleans, Phillip Beck, Merck's lead defense counsel in federal court, discusses his defense of Merck as our guest on this week's legal - affairs podcast Coast to Coason this week's legal - affairs podcast Coast to Coast.

(a) a short form order dated April 23, 2003, issued and signed by the Honorable M. Ritholtz, granting Mr. Kaufman's motion for a default judgment and referring the issue of damages to an inquest, (b) the defendant's order to show cause, signed by the Honorable M. Ritholtz on September 12, 2003, seeking to set aside the default judgment, accompanied by defense counsel's signed affirmation and the defendant's signed, but not notarized, affidavit, (c) the respondent's affirmation in opposition to the defendant's order to show cause, dated October 8, 2003, (d) a preliminary conference stipulation and order dated March 17, 2004, signed by the respondent and defense counsel, and (e) a notice of compliance / settlement conference scheduled for October 21, 2004, before the Honorable M. Ritholtz.

On March 7, 2012, Lightfoot attorney William Morrow and in - house counsel for United States Steel Corporation, Tony Jeselnik, obtained a defense verdict in a case brought against the company for alleged violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

At trial plaintiff's counsel attempted to impeach a defense expert with his history of payment from a medical malpractice insurer, by whom he had been paid on several occasions for testimony or opinions.

The amicus took instructions from and acted on behalf of the accused, as if he were defense counsel except he could not be discharged or withdraw.

Ted is a member to many prestigious trial organizations such as the Council on Litigation Management, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, International Association of Defense Counsel and the Trucking Industry Defense Association.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

Her practice focuses on defense and representation of employers, as well as counsel and advice on legal issues effecting today's workplace.

Gene is a frequent lecturer before State and local Bar Associations, as well as plaintiffs» attorney and defense counsel functions, on the subject of mediating and settling the most contentious of litigated cases

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.

So then what happens next, then the insured has to put their carrier on notice and carrier's going to again, to find defense counsel, because there would be a conflict with collection counsel, of course.

The Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall not be at the expense of the Indemnifying Party if the Indemnifying Party has assumed the defense of the action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party; provided that the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of the Indemnifying Party if (i) the employment of such counsel has been specifically authorized in writing by the Indemnifying Party or (ii) the named parties to any such action (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnified Party or parties and the Indemnifying Party and, in the judgement of counsel for the Indemnified Party, it is advisable for the Indemnified Party or parties to be represented by separate counsel (in which case the Indemnifying Party shall not have the right to assume the defense of such action on behalf of the Indemnified Party or parties, it being understood, however, that the Indemnifying Party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys for the Indemnified Party or parties.

Lead counsel for a builder obtaining complete defense verdict on statue of repose, affirmed by the NC Supreme Court.

He has served as local counsel on numerous occasions for Plaintiff firms and Defense firms.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Roberto J. Gonzalez, former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will join the firm as partner in its litigation department, resident in Washington, D.C., where he will represent financial services and other clients, focusing on high - stakes litigation, white - collar criminal and regulatory defense, internal investigations, and congressional proceedings.