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Hope all lawyers at Paul Weiss of conviction join them.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025 -
The lawyer for Yunice Abbas, one of the defendants who was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison, with five suspended, also welcomed the verdict.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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The review aims to ensure that U.S. attorneys in 94 offices nationwide share equal responsibility with headquarters officials in choosing whether to pursue public corruption cases, according to a department official speaking on background.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Since that can have important income tax implications, and because the potential impact of different valuations on beneficiaries, many CPAs or other tax preparers (e.g., the attorney handling the estate) opt to get real numbers.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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The prosecuting attorney and Vallow’s two advisory attorneys did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The other attorneys for the prosecution include Deputy Attorney General Jeff Nye and Ashley Jennings, Thompson’s senior deputy prosecuting attorney in Latah County.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the case of Jay-Z, the billionaire has come out swinging against attorney Tony Buzbee, branding him an ambulance chaser and calling him a 1-800 lawyer.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2025
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My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.—
Shannon Power,
Newsweek,
13 Dec. 2024
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The only categories of crime brought to the district attorney’s office that have fallen are felony burglary, felony motor vehicle theft, and felony narcotics, which decreased by 13%, 10%, and 2%, respectively.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
16 May 2025
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The district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry about that approach.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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According to her website, Shapiro is a trial lawyer who began her career as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
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Opposing the legislation were Texas trial lawyers and a long line of Texans who had lost family members or suffered grievous injury in accidents on Texas’s increasingly dangerous roads.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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In East Aurora, overall vacancies — inclusive of vacancies for teachers, paraprofessionals, school counselors, etc. — went up slightly in recent years, from 67 in 2023 to 71 in 2025, according to data from the Illinois State Board of Education.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Petersen gets calls from farmers, advocates and the counselors to stay up to date on what’s happening in the state.—
Michael Johnson,
Twin Cities,
16 May 2025
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To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.—
Eliza Strickland,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Mar. 2025
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Holmes is another shyster whose story has been dissected in several documentaries and in dramatizations like Hulu’s The Dropout, but Gibney brings specific insights and a fresh perspective to this truly unbelievable story.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
31 July 2024
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“Philadelphia lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Philadelphia%20lawyer. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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