First, committees (including a majority of non-lawyers) screen judicial applicants and recommend a few to the governor.
The Guardian Council, a group of 12 clerics and Islamic lawyers who screen candidates and legislation and must ultimately approve the election results, suggested that there had been "numerous irregularities" in the election, including lost ballots.
Even where genuine conflicts exist, if they're "personal" conflicts the law generally doesn't extend them to a lawyer's colleagues; it's generally sufficient for the conflicted lawyer to screen herself off from the case.
The court-appointed lawyers are screened and many are experienced, but some other lawyers and judges say they are sloppy and unreliable.
John Davis Lodge Turnpike" by Gov. William O'Neill in 1986, 31 years after the death of Mr. Lodge -- a dashing Boston Brahmin educated at Harvard and in Europe, a lawyer, a screen and stage actor from 1932 to the mid-1940's, and Connecticut's governor from 1951 to 1955.
Although most plans say they screen lawyers carefully before signing them on, consumers may need to perform a little due diligence of their own.
ABC News, for one, tried to help its viewership, posting brief resumes of the lawyers on the screen and flashing quotations from some of the laws being mentioned.
The lawyers undergo special screening.
Mr. Gonzales heads a committee of about 15 people from the White House and the Justice Department who are screening lawyers for judgeships.
In 1994, the committee that screens lawyers for the Appellate Division in Manhattan and the Bronx began a review of the attorneys who handle homicide cases and other felonies.
This is also the opinion of his wife, Mira Markovic, who has played a central role in screening lawyers as offers accumulate from around the world, including one from Ramsey Clark, the former United States attorney general.
