Sentence examples for common lawyers from inspiring English sources

Histories like Ms. Clifford's are becoming more common, lawyers warn.

The kings from the house of Stuart were unable to do this, and jealousy and anger at the council's political activities grew among parliamentarians and common lawyers.

"I have no sense at all that the United Kingdom's legal system or we, its common lawyers, judges and courts, are about to be overwhelmed or lose our identity in the face of any outside threat.

Justice Gische reviewed the papers after Mr. Nathan's lawyer, Sandra Katz, sought last week to combine the custody case and the mayor's divorce, arguing that they involved "common parties, common lawyers, common parenting skills".

Members of the Doctors' Commons were those who held degrees either of doctor of civil law at Oxford or doctor of law at Cambridge and who subsequently had been admitted as advocates (similar to admittance to the bar for common lawyers) by the dean of arches, the presiding officer of the Court of Appeal under the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury.

Common lawyers do not, then, conceptualise distinguishing along lines analogous to overruling.

Justice Ginsburg appeared to be "a cautious, incrementalist common lawyer," and Justice Breyer "an antiformalist problem solver".

Rather than reviewing my book, Tribe has written a common lawyer's brief, employing the sorts of tricks lawyers use to diminish a position they must attack: overreading, underreading or simply misreading complex arguments; taking snippets of quotations out of context; attributing contrived motives to an author or far-fetched consequences to a position; and so forth.

Indeed part of the skill of a good common lawyer is grasping the law as not stated by the earlier court: learning that cases are 'distinguishable' is a staple part of common law education, and no common lawyer would be competent who did not appreciate that the law was not to be identified simply with the ratio of an earlier decision.

The firm's new television ads clearly play on the hope of the common man's being represented by an anything-but-common lawyer.

This is the most common way lawyers in criminal courts use brain scans: to mitigate against the death penalty.