"If you're going to lawyer for these people, you'd better toe very close to the line that the government has set out," Ms. Stewart said, adding that the ruling made clear that the government would "be watching you every inch of the way".
While the advance from "guardian ad litem to "lawyer for the child" is a positive one, it is important to guard against limiting too severely the AFCs ability to guide his or her client (to sway the child in a direction the AFC thinks is appropriate).
The go-to lawyer for many top players.
Ms. Veselnitskaya, 42, earned her status as the go-to lawyer for the Moscow regional government.
Mr. Bopp's success defending the voter guides from legal challenges made him the go-to lawyer for right-leaning groups fighting election rules.
To defend itself, the trust hired Randy M. Mastro, who was a deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration and over the past seven years has served as the go-to lawyer for companies suing the Bloomberg administration.
In fact, since leaving the position of solicitor general under Bush, he has become, in the Obama age, a sort of anti-solicitor general — the go-to lawyer for some of the Republican Party's most significant, and polarizing, legal causes.
In fact, since leaving the position of solicitor general under Bush, he has become, in the Obama age, a sort of anti-solicitor general the go-to lawyer for some of the Republican Party's most significant, and polarizing, legal causes.
Bespectacled and with a mop of ginger hair, Zherebenkov has appeared in court here increasingly often in recent years, defending high-profile people in trouble and becoming the go-to lawyer for Russian journalists seeking a sound bite of legalese.
At the time of Roberts's nomination, Thomas Goldstein, a prominent Supreme Court litigator, described him as "the go-to lawyer for the business community," adding "of all the candidates, he is the one they knew best". When Roberts was nominated, business groups lobbied senators as part of the campaign for his confirmation.
Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount Pictures; Michael Ovitz, the deposed super-agent; and Bert Fields, the go-to lawyer for celebrities and moguls alike, have all acknowledged hiring Mr. Pellicano in business disputes in which the detective has since been accused of breaking the law.
