Sentence examples for Legal defender from inspiring English sources

Business Day|Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.

In recent years, the organization has been a principal legal defender of what it calls "traditional marriage".

But Robert A. Abernethy, who was named to represent Brandon, petitioned the court recently to withdraw from the case because the Office of the Legal Defender, where he works, had briefly represented Orlando.

He will return on Monday in dramatically different circumstances, testifying as the chief legal defender of a domestic eavesdropping operation that has touched off a stormy debate over its legality.

He also sought to reveal some lesser known aspects of his wife that some may not be familiar with - her work as a legal defender after she graduated with college, and her role in closing loopholes in the education that had permitted some private institutions to effectively continue segregation.

All lawyers inevitably experience tension with clients (e.g. "pushing the envelope", waiving conflicts, fees, etc)., but their in-house colleagues contend not only with the push-pull of zealous representation/legal ethics but also with friction emanating from their dual role as legal defender and business strategist/partner.

In 2006, he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years during a trial that his legal defenders described as farcical.

The President's relationships with his other public and legal defenders, such as Giuliani, who was added to his legal team last month, are even more tenuous.

The two lawyers left standing, Mr. Ding and Si Weijiang, prominent legal defenders from Shanghai, said officials in Yinan County refused to allow them to meet with Mr. Chen after they traveled there last week.

In exposing the professional and moral dilemmas among hamstrung legal defenders of alleged terrorists, of all unpopular causes, the magazine is running so far with its libertarian ideals that it has ended up making common cause with the radical left.

As the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, that was the question posed at a forum I convened this week with some of the nation's leading experts on law and justice -- including the president of the American Bar Association, a retired federal judge, former Congressional and Justice Department staff, and representatives of public and legal defenders and non-profits.