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And the deal’s legitimacy and legality has rightly faced a wave of skepticism from NGOs, charities, and human-rights
lawyers.
The furor over Trump’s monarchical concept of the presidency erupted recently when The New York Times exposed letters that the president’s
lawyers
had written to US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation into issues related to obstruction of justice and possible collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.
Trump’s
lawyers
set forth astonishingly broad claims of authority, and Trump tweeted his agreement with several of them – including that the president can pardon himself, thereby quashing any legal charges against him.
But Trump’s
lawyers
have argued that his constitutional powers extend even further.
Another selling point for Western executives is that many Chinese officials have engineering backgrounds, in contrast to their Western counterparts, most of whom are
lawyers.
To businessmen, engineers are practical problem solvers, whereas
lawyers
are obsessed with procedural complexities and intent on exploiting contractual loopholes.
In these circumstances, more complicated regulations merely mean more billable hours for lawyers, more income for regulators switching sides, and more profits for derivatives traders.
Despite immediate attempts by his
lawyers
to locate him, his whereabouts remained unknown for days.
Here in our offices in Johannesburg, we have two Zimbabwean
lawyers
who fled their country after receiving death threats for their work defending human rights.
Concerted efforts – involving national and local governments, universities, workers’ unions, political parties, environmental groups, young people, women’s groups, lawyers, and the business community – can change the world.
The son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was reported to have hired US lawyers, bankers, and real-estate agents to move more than $110 million into the US between 2004 and 2008, using the money to buy a $30 million house in Malibu, California, a Gulfstream jet, and countless luxury goods.
The second consists of liberal economists and
lawyers
from Putin’s home town of St. Petersburg, with Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin and Minister of Economy German Gref the leading lights.
And they have clever
lawyers.
But Japan’s wealthiest people, such as entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and lawyers, are nowadays less willing or financially able to continue patronizing the sport, particularly since the collapse of Japan’s asset bubble in the early 1990’s.
For example, legal markets are dominated by rich lawyers, schools are controlled by teachers’ unions, and the medical sector is influenced by powerful doctors, resulting in high business costs that also hamper industrial development.
When I travel abroad and meet
lawyers
interested in the Assange case (and they are many), I get asked the most incredible questions about Sweden’s legal system.
And
lawyers
have been playing a key role in deciding what it can and cannot do.
The
lawyers
probably have more influence than the economists in this regard.
In December,
lawyers
representing claimants presented Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court with a request to ratify a settlement reached with the banks.
I served as one of the
lawyers
for the children.
Lawyers
can use OONI data to assess the legality of Internet censorship in their countries, and potentially introduce it as evidence in court cases.
An increasingly dense “patent thicket” in a world of products requiring thousands of patents has sometimes stifled innovation, with more spent on
lawyers
than on researchers in some cases.
The Jews were seen as a sinister force that was dominating the elite professions: bankers, professors, lawyers, news media, or entertainment.
Since the beginning of this year, repression of human rights activists, lawyers, and bloggers has been harsher than ever.
When carrying his petition to Beijing, escorted by a tiny group of lawyers, Chen was accused of disrupting traffic on the city’s clogged roads and condemned to four years in jail.
The strategy didn’t work, and the
lawyers
returned to agitating.
Following the coup, Bhutto and Nawaz fled into exile, and were allowed back into the country only after Musharraf, hoping that their return would help deflect public attention from the lawyers’ protest movement, announced that he would hold elections.
That is the claim of two important recent papers, one by a bipartisan group of German economists, lawyers, and political scientists called the Glienicker Gruppe, and the other by Ashoka Mody, a former International Monetary Fund official who is now at Princeton University and the European think tank Bruegel.
And high-priced corporate
lawyers
in the US, Europe, and Japan will likely outmatch the underpaid government
lawyers
attempting to defend the public interest.
Effective prosecutors and defense
lawyers
mine the popular imagination for well-known characters (“she-devil,” “femme fatale”) and stock scripts (“sex game gone wrong”) to help frame their story in court.
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