Sentence examples for effective lawyer from inspiring English sources

He was a parliamentarian, an effective lawyer and particularly a pillar of the Jewish community.

She has challenged all-male clubs, fought for gay rights and been voted America's "most effective lawyer".

But they were certain that Mr. Sharp's reputation as an effective lawyer, rather than any political considerations, led the president to seek him out.

The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the Sixth Amendment gives a criminal defendant a right to an effective lawyer during plea-bargain negotiations and when the defendant gives up the right to a trial and accepts a plea offer.

His reputation as an assiduous, dedicated and highly effective lawyer spread and, through the 70s and into the 80s, he became the lawyer Irish families contacted when one of their own was in trouble.

Thus Kafka presents a bleak world where a once respectable bank clerk is suddenly prosecuted for apparently no reason at all, and does not even have the benefit of an effective lawyer to represent him.

I feel sad for the women who tried to speak up and weren't listened to because he was so powerful and had such effective lawyers".

The original order, issued just days before the inauguration of President Obama, held that immigrants did not have a constitutional right to effective lawyers in their deportation hearings.

There was one unsettling contradiction in Mr. Holder's order, which appears to leave Justice Department lawyers free to argue in deportation cases at the federal appeals court level that there is no constitutional right to effective lawyers for immigrants.

But Mr. Holder said Justice Department lawyers could continue to argue in deportation cases at the federal appeals court level that there is no constitutional right to effective lawyers for immigrants.

WASHINGTON — Criminal defendants have a constitutional right to effective lawyers during plea negotiations, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions that vastly expanded judges' supervision of the criminal justice system.