Word: lawyering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still searching for a group of men, who the children say arrived at Franck V.'s apartment in suits and ties, with their faces hidden behind masks - a striking contrast to the largely uneducated, unemployed defendants who fill the courtroom in rumpled sweatshirts and scuffed sneakers. Franck V.'s lawyer Pascal Rouiller says he is convinced...
...distinction could halve his prison sentence from 20 to 10 years. Franck has not named his missing customers, but Rouiller hopes their identities will emerge during the trial, which is expected to end in late June. The brute violence and numbing banality of the crimes has jolted even seasoned lawyers and child advocates. "Their children were just a way of supplementing their income a little," says Yves Crespin, attorney for l'Enfant Bleu, a child-protection association in Bagnolet. "Parents and their friends were smoking cigarettes in the next room while men raped their children and the children were crying...
...That's according to her Connecticut voter registration. Coulter says she won't confirm the date "for privacy reasons"--she's had several stalkers. "And I'm a girl," she adds.) Her father John, 77, was a G.I. Bill student who became an FBI agent and then a corporate lawyer; Nell Martin, who raised Ann and two boys, is the daughter of a Paducah printmaker. Coulter learned to argue around a dinner table populated by a Catholic father, a Presbyterian mother and two brothers--one of them "a Presbyterian and an anti-Papist," Coulter says with a titter...
...have the best people running our campaigns and our PACs. If we're just putting family on the payroll to get them money, that's unethical. But if they are truly doing the work and they are very qualified--in my own case, my son is a lawyer, and I'm very fortunate that he's willing to do this and does a great...
Patrick said his experience as a lawyer, government official, and community member has given him a sense of “creative leadership” that makes him a strong candidate for the governorship...