So, before a (good, responsible) lawyer tosses around a term like "fraud" or "fraudulent" to describe an action or a person, he or she should probably double-check its legal definition, especially since the use of that word may have legal implications in both civil and criminal contexts.
Spitzer also questions whether a responsible lawyer would even take such an assignment, though he says the answer depends on what V&E's lawyers knew was going on.
Responsible lawyers would have responded with extra vigilance, especially if, like Mr. Yoo and Mr. Bybee, they worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
We talk about assault as if it were a new phenomenon, as if it weren't the people in positions of authority who are so often responsible: lawyers, judges, priests, teachers, police officers, doctors, C.E.O.s.
In the long term, the reforms might lay the ground on which, independently of anybody's plans, a new generation of responsible judges, lawyers and prosecutors could spring up.
In medieval times most students at the Inner Temple – one of the four Inns of Court that used to be responsible for lawyers' vocational education – "were the sons of country gentlemen, not intended for the legal profession".
And now, more background information on the lawyer responsible.
Someone else at the newspaper might have been responsible, said the lawyer, Neil Garnham.
Like any responsible criminal defense lawyer, she will seek the best outcome for her client.
The lawyer responsible for federal oversight of hiring by the City of Chicago and Cook County now wants an independent monitor to patrol the personnel decisions of state government, too.
Before his hiring as the office's top lawyer responsible for technology, real estate, environment and transportation, Neel was in private practice in Fairfax.
