trial lawyer

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Recent Examples of trial lawyer White was named 2013 trial lawyer of the year by the San Diego County Criminal Defense Bar Association and is a past president of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Club. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025 Trump’s Justice Department also rightfully recognizes that runaway litigation stifles businesses and costs jobs, while putting large sums in the pockets of trial lawyers, one of the Democratic Party’s most reliable sources of fundraising. Tiger Joyce, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025 Larsen was one of the few women in Hamilton County to work as a trial lawyer in the 1970s. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025 Gerry Spence, the fringe jacket-wearing trial lawyer from Wyoming known for a string of major court wins starting with a multimillion-dollar judgment against a plutonium processor in the landmark Karen Silkwood case, has died. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trial lawyer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trial lawyer
Noun
  • As a new three-month excavation begins at the temple and underwater site, Martínez, a criminal lawyer from the Dominican Republic who has turned to diplomacy and archaeology, believes the find is a promising next step in her 20-year search for the tomb of Queen Cleopatra VII.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Martinez has a degree in archaeology but initially became a criminal lawyer.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • About a week later, my public defender, Steve McManus, visited me.
    Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Court records show that Schubert is being represented by a public defender.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Following the verdict, neither the defense or prosecuting attorneys were willing to comment on the outcome of the trial.
    Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • One person was taken into custody but was released with no criminal charges filed, according to Melissa Price Smith, St. Louis County prosecuting attorney.
    Susannah Cullinane, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The district attorney’s office never formally filed charges in connection to those offenses.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In 2021, the district attorney’s office found witness interviews never provided and a handwritten note that indicated the bullet hole in Kinser’s skull was too small to be from the gun Vedam had purchased.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Observers from around the country tuned into Monday’s news conference featuring the Marion County, Indiana, prosecutor and the Indianapolis police chief interested to hear more about the bizarre incident involving former NFL quarterback and current analyst Mark Sanchez.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But perhaps most noticeably, lead prosecutor for the case, Maurene Comey was fired shortly after the trial concluded in July—though her termination was not directly related to her performance in this case.
    Essence, Essence, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Trial lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trial%20lawyer. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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