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Carter was a somewhat bland engineer, whereas Obama is a charismatic lawyer.
As a good lawyer, Obama weighs the pros and cons, aware that it is impossible to do nothing in the Syrian crisis but remaining viscerally disinclined to leap into any foreign entanglement that would distract attention from his agenda of domestic reform.
But getting access to sensitive information in transitional democracies is not always easier, as I know from my previous work as a human rights lawyer with the Romanian Helsinki Committee.
Mr. Rato is a lawyer by training and has an MBA.
The defense lawyer points to the key piece of evidence and addresses the prosecutor: “You, sir, claim that this CD containing all the incriminating documents was prepared by my client in 2003.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion scandal in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the dubious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
I am a social democrat who was never a Communist party member, though I achieved success as a lawyer in Soviet times.
Indeed, the prominent feminist lawyer Asma Jahangir has 24-hour armed guards.
But, as a lawyer, she understood how unethical anonymous allegations are – and how unlikely they are to bring about real consequences.
In 2009, for example, Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer, was accused of embezzlement after uncovering a fraudulent tax-refund scheme run by Russian officials.
Taking a stand against corruption is a crucial task for the reformist leadership of Mikheil Saakashvili, a Columbia University-educated lawyer, Nino Burjanadze, the acting head of state and speaker of parliament, and Zurab Zhvania, also a former parliamentary speaker.
Even his own lawyer is reputed to have described him as a liar.
Svetlana Bakhmina was a lawyer at Yukos, the oil company formerly run by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Vasily Aleksanyan was Executive Vice President of Yukos, and, as a lawyer, defended Khodorkovsky and his partner, Platon Lebedev, after their arrest in 2003.
Rafal Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who established the concept of “genocide” and invented the term, would have disagreed: he called the Ukrainian famine a classic case of Soviet genocide.
Abbott’s nemesis, Turnbull, now Prime Minister, stands in sharp contrast: sophisticated, highly successful in his past lives as a journalist, lawyer, and investment banker, and very popular – across party lines – with the electorate.
If a young female lawyer or banker on a promising career track decides to leave the office “early” every day to be home with her kids for dinner, work part-time, or take time out to be a full-time caregiver, she is quickly knocked out of the competition for top jobs.
As any trial judge or criminal lawyer can attest, for every psychological expert produced by the defense in a legal case, prosecutors can produce one to argue the opposite.
Chidambaram, a Harvard-trained lawyer who has held the finance portfolio twice before, is committed to increasing growth and to adopting pro-market policies.
The Hindu newspaper recently reported on the case of a 24-year-old lawyer, Anima Muyarath, who was suspended from the Calicut Bar Association after posting a remark on her Facebook page about sexist behavior in the workplace by her male superiors.
As a lawyer and legislator since 1989, she enjoys a privileged role in developing the strategies of her husband’s government.
A petition drive to impeach Trump, organized by Massachusetts lawyer John Bonifaz, has gathered more than a million signatures.
According to Wells Dixon, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents some of the detainees, the Obama administration cannot risk calling the torture practices crimes, so it calls them “classified sources and methods” that cannot be revealed in court.
When he sought a lawyer to defend his rights, his mother, who had been made his legal guardian, had him locked up in a psychiatric hospital for seven months.
Back in 2004, when Shtukaturov by chance discovered the judge’s decision, he Googled his way to the only lawyer in Russia who deals with mental health and human rights.
The lawyer agreed to represent him.
But when he was subsequently detained in a psychiatric hospital, the Russian government refused to allow the lawyer access to his client.
Shtukaturov’s story is unique only because he was able to find his way to a lawyer.
Currently, the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, is being prosecuted for allegedly conspiring to embezzle from a state-owned timber firm, while Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after accusing several Russian officials of large-scale embezzlement, is being tried posthumously on conspiracy charges.
For example, while Interpol recently rejected Russia’s request to pursue the investment banker William F. Browder (a fierce critic of the Russian government since the death of his lawyer, Magnitsky), it should apply Article 3 of its constitution, which bars it from participating in political matters, much more scrupulously.
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