Sentence examples for lay lawyers from inspiring English sources

The clergy were augmented by an unknown number of lay lawyers and clerks as well as masons, carpenters, glaziers, plumbers, and gardeners.

The congregation's disciplinary department, which weighs each case, is composed of 10 people: Monsignor Charles Scicluna, who is the promoter of justice or chief prosecutor; the bureau chief; seven priests; and a lay lawyer, though other officials from other Vatican offices are brought in for specific cases.

Witnesses, including the police, lie; lawyers on both sides bend or conceal the truth.

Agents lie, lawyers expound, publicists holler and cower all at once, and the stars themselves occasionally call to spur us on to greater heights or knock our estimates down.

Like other Bay Area law firms whose clients had collapsed or had cut back sharply on spending, Brobeck began to lay off lawyers last year, even as the firm was entering costly new office space in Palo Alto.

The lawyers noted that, after years in which the government provided millions of dollars for legal representation for struggling homeowners, some of New York's legal programs are now planning to lay off lawyers and housing counselors who specialize in foreclosure prevention.

A reorganization of how the American Church is run, from requiring annual reports and five-year strategic plans in each parish to SWAT teams of lay accountants, lawyers, psychologists and consultants to deal with crises and other management problems.

"He does not want the public to know what was discovered on his computers because it includes smoking-gun documents that conclusively establish that he fabricated the purported contract and that this entire lawsuit is a fraud and a lie," lawyers representing Mr. Zuckerberg and his company declared in court papers last August.

And if you need an even bigger deterrent not to lie, the lawyers I spoke with said it's often perfectly legal and somewhat common, depending on the state, for employers to double-check facts like compensation with former employers, especially if you signed a form allowing this.

As the journalist Gail Sheehy wrote in the 1999 biography Hillary's Choice: "It was Hillary who made the first call, on the morning the [ Washington] Post story [reporting that Bill and others allegedly encouraged Lewinsky to lie to lawyers] broke, to establish the line the White House would use".

As the journalist Gail Sheehy wrote in the 1999 biography Hillary's Choice: "It was Hillary who made the first call, on the morning the [Washington] Post story [reporting that Bill and others allegedly encouraged Lewinsky to lie to lawyers] broke, to establish the line the White House would use".