Has your training as a lawyer influenced your music in any way?
But the role played by senior military and civilian officials at the Pentagon has never been fully explained, and it is not clear how the legal memorandum, which was addressed to William Haynes, then the top Pentagon lawyer, influenced interrogations.
It's no accident that the heartland of trial-lawyer influence, and also of powerful opposition to trial lawyers, is the South.
But good lawyers influence their clients, maybe getting them to settle for less than the clients want or think possible.
Ms. Isaac, a sociologist and a co-author of "The Coercive Utopians," and Ms. Armat, an editor and journalist, contend that public interest lawyers, influenced by false and destructive antipsychiatric doctrines, deranged the law, and have made it impossible to provide patients with the treatments they require but lack the insight to accept.
Results from the second part of the study, which illustrated the lawyer's influence in determining which bankruptcy chapter to choose, came from a survey sent to lawyers asking them questions based on fictitious couples who were seeking bankruptcy protection.
She grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of a psychiatrist mother and a lawyer father, influenced by the city's fly-girl style and the attitude of her private school.
And when local officers with limited resources find themselves up against a national insurer with lawyers and influence in Congress, it can be an unequal match, Mr. Molino, the Pentagon official, said.
Crespo's practical experience as a criminal defense lawyer deeply influences his scholarship, which focuses on the design and administration of the criminal justice system, with a particular focus on the administrative role that courts play in regulating law enforcement behavior.
Like their business-oriented counterparts, public interest lawyers effectively influence the court's agenda, too.
"Money talks," said Kabateck, addressing the lawyers' waning influence in the Capitol.
