Sentence examples for mining lawyer from inspiring English sources

"Bringing another coal industry executive in did not look good," Tony Oppegard, a mining lawyer and former federal mine safety official, said of Mr. Stickler's appointment.

Earlier this year his Mvelaphanda Holdings was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange, the main financial market here, where it was joined last month by African Rainbow Minerals Gold, led by Patrice Motsepe, a former mining lawyer.

"You can see that in this country we have a lot of resources," said Emery Kalamba, a mining lawyer, opposition party senator and prominent critic of Congo's government dealings with China.

When I arrived at his apartment, he and a friend, a mining-industry lawyer from New Jersey, were listening to Beyoncé and pouring champagne.

"Enforcement under Chao was a very low point in MSHA history, I believe," said Tony Oppegard, a mine safety lawyer who prosecuted cases for the state of Kentucky during the Bush years.

As the worst environmental disasters in the eastern states in modern times, the two incidents didn't rank as "accidents" to Oppegard, a veteran Kentucky mine safety lawyer and investigator.

"This is a gold mine for lawyers," he said.

The proposed laws come after the mining industry, some lawyers and Australia's largest native title representative body expressed concerns that hundreds of projects providing income to traditional owners were in jeopardy.

A friend of mine, a former lawyer who has represented people in asylum cases, had recently told me about the difficulty of making a persuasive asylum plea these days.

This installment is a personal story about a longstanding friend of mine, a New York lawyer named Janet Scully who worked for 22 years as an attorney for Travelers Insurance.

Tony Oppegard, a former mine agency official who is now a lawyer and mine safety advocate in Kentucky, said that he believed the warning letters helped the coal industry avoid oversight.