Sentence examples for lawyer to commit from inspiring English sources

He directed his lawyer to commit felonies.

Under D.C. and Louisiana law, it is a crime to solicit for prostitution.... Louisiana Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(b) provides it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to "commit a criminal act especially one that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects".

Unless it's on this logical quandary: if you are not going to prosecute people who got clearance from lawyers to commit crimes, and you are not going to prosecute the lawyers, then what, exactly, keeps any lawyer in any White House from telling anyone they can do anything?

Under a related proposed provision, the bar association would make it clear that a lawyer could disclose financial fraud by a client if that client was using the lawyer's services to commit the fraud.

But a proposal allowing lawyers to disclose financial fraud by a client if that client was using the lawyer's services to commit the fraud was defeated 255 to 151 yesterday.

In many countries professional associations of lawyers have sought to commit the principles of ethical conduct to written form, but a written code is not essential.

Because lawyers are necessary to commit almost any fraud of more than a moment's duration, their firms' survival should be on the line.

For example, if a lawyer knows that their client is about to commit perjury, the lawyer is supposed to stop the client or alert the court.

They must be seen by doctors and lawyers before being allowed to commit suicide.

It did not specify the crime the authorities believed she had conspired to commit, the lawyer added.

It sounds like the plot of a mob film, except the lawyers asking how much their clients can get away with are from the C.I.A. and the lawyers coaching them on how to commit the abuses are from the Justice Department.