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I was imagining myself as a lawyer, seated on that big chair.
What I didn't have to think about, either as president or as a constitutional lawyer, was the implications for the sovereignty of the territory because of the impact of climate change.
I came to climate change not as a scientist or an environmental lawyer, and I wasn't really impressed by the images of polar bears or melting glaciers.
Speaking of Gandhi, he was a recovering lawyer, as I've heard the term, and he was called to a greater cause, something that mattered to him, he couldn't not do.
Women were getting education: lawyer, engineer, teacher, and we were going from house to house.
She wants to become a lawyer or a politician or something that can help fight injustice.
Who can we sue?" (Laughter) Now Chris is a really brilliant lawyer, but he knew almost nothing about patent law and certainly nothing about genetics.
I knew something about genetics, but I wasn't even a lawyer, let alone a patent lawyer.
The lawyer takes you and your 99 relatives to a secret room in the mansion that contains 100 lockers, each hiding a single word.
Before cousin Thaddeus can even start down the line, you step forward and tell the lawyer you know which lockers will remain open.
The lawyer brings you to the safe, and you claim your inheritance.
This is not just about an individual lawyer who's spoken to our undercover investigator and provided suggestions.
I used to be a disability rights lawyer, and I spent a lot of my time focused on enforcing the law, ensuring that accommodations were made.
Her mum is a doctor, and her dad is a lawyer.
I did notice in Stephenville, Texas, that the town square was dominated by one lawyer's office after another, because of all the people rotating in and out of the prison.
So my dad, unsurprisingly, became a bankruptcy lawyer.
I didn't know, for example, that you had to go to law school to be a lawyer.
So the real implication of the blockchain is that it removes the need for any kind of third party, such as a lawyer, or a trusted intermediary, or maybe not a government intermediary to facilitate the exchange.
So, think of the average Apple customer: a banker, a lawyer, a doctor, a politician.
Take Demosthenes, a political leader and the greatest orator and lawyer in ancient Greece.
To become great, he didn't spend all his time just being an orator or a lawyer, which would be his performance zone.
He studied law and philosophy with guidance from mentors, but he also realized that being a lawyer involved persuading other people, so he also studied great speeches and acting.
Twenty years ago, when I was a barrister and human rights lawyer in full-time legal practice in London, and the highest court in the land still convened, some would say by an accident of history, in this building here, I met a young man who had just quit his job in the British Foreign Office.
Now, you might be somewhat skeptical of a lawyer arguing about the benefits of conflict and creating problems for compromise, but I did also qualify as a mediator, and these days, I spend my time giving talks about ethics for free.
Nobody ever told me that I could be a lawyer, doctor or engineer.
In the case of missing a letter from the IRS, I could call a friend who is a lawyer or ask, say, a professor of law what they would recommend, who I should talk to, how had people handled this in the past.
As a bioethicist, a lawyer, a philosopher and an Iranian-American, I'm deeply concerned about what this means for our freedoms and what kinds of protections we need.
An immigration lawyer argued he was too important to the local community to be deported.
They were willing to start at the bottom, just like, say, a first-year lawyer at a law firm is willing to start at the bottom, work 80-hour weeks for not that much money, because they think they're going to make partner.
You don't see the blogger, you don't see the Harvard-educated lawyer, the vibrant person, you know?
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