Sentence examples for initial lawyer from inspiring English sources

Mr Dow is unable to save Quaker, largely because the case was badly mishandled by his initial lawyer, a common predicament for death-row inmates.

Geoffrey Robertson, of London, who was an initial lawyer for Julian Assange during the WikiLeaks dispute, criticized the alert as unusual because it was being applied to someone who has denounced government policies.

Terminate the representation with your initial lawyer.

Lawyers for Mr. Cook, who has also been convicted of murdering two people, have said his initial lawyers failed to present evidence of extreme physical and sexual abuse in his childhood.

But the lawyers argued in their petition that Mr. Beazley's initial appellate lawyer had been incompetent and had failed to raise issues like potential racial bias among jurors and the fact that he was 17 at the time of the crime.

This week, his initial appellate lawyer, Robin Norris, admitted in an affidavit that he did an inadequate job of investigating and preparing the appeal, and never researched or briefed any issues concerning Mr. Beazley's age at the time of the crime.

The court will consider his lawyers' argument that he had ineffective counsel; they say that in post-conviction proceedings, his initial defense lawyers did not present evidence that Mr. Cook had endured extreme physical and sexual abuse throughout his childhood.

Dr. Gedz plans to undergo plastic surgery to obscure the carved initials, her lawyer said.

Mr. Kerkorian tried to align with the initial group, his lawyer, Terry Christensen, said yesterday.

Computer forensic experts said that assuming the laptop was not turned on by investigators who made the initial arrests, defense lawyers would have a hard time refuting any information found in the files.

Lori Berenson, 30, told a civilian judge investigating the charges against her that she was neither a member nor a collaborator of the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, known by its initials M.R.T.A., her lawyer, Jose Luis Sandoval, said.