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• n  a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

• Born in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ervin was the son of a relentlessly upright lawyer.
• A white-haired lawyer from Wall Street sat in a straw hut at Panmunjom last week, while Chinese and North Korean Communists on the other side of the table paid him their.
• A Republican lawyer claims she was told that Karl Rove while serving as President Bush's top political adviser had intervened in the Justice Department's prosecution of .

• attorney

News & Articles

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• Lawyer for Former N.F.L. Star Asks for Leniency
  The lawyer for the former N.F.L. star Chad Johnson said the backside pat Johnson gave him in court was not meant as disrespectful to a judge — and did not warrant 30 days in jail.
  June 12, 2013 - New York Times
• Lawyer for Johnson seeks cut in 30-day jail term
  Johnson’s lawyer Adam Swickle asked Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh to reconsider the sentence she imposed Monday.
  June 12, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
• Lawyer: Subcontractor Is Scapegoat in Pa. Collapse
  Lawyer: Subcontractor is scapegoat, was just following orders before deadly Pa. wall collapse        
  June 11, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Bloomberg
  Obama said Clinton was "a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart" while he was fighting for working-class Americans in Illinois.
• President Bush in New York Daily News
  The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged,Bush said. "The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant and private...
• David Stern in SI.com
  No other NBA officials or players were expected to be involved in the scandal, which Stern called the "most serious situation and worst situation that I have ever experienced either as a fan of the NBA, a lawyer for the NBA or a commissioner of the...