trial lawyer

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Recent Examples of trial lawyer For decades, trial lawyer ads have been a staple of late-night television. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025 Wetzel is a trial lawyer who represents social media platforms and legacy media companies on music licensing and copyright issues, and reps a wide range of AI firms, including Suno and Udio, in copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the major record labels. Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 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 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 See All Example Sentences for trial lawyer
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Noun
  • Tautly written, this first novel by a former criminal lawyer who spent 17 years in the Arctic is a hard look at the desolate lives of people resigned to life in the bleak far north.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Burke’s criminal lawyer has not responded to multiple requests for comment from Rolling Stone.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The county’s chief public defender, Michael Berger, said the case hasn’t been assigned to his office.
    Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Despite arguments from Cornish’s public defender, Erik Ellis, for his client to be eligible for parole after serving 25 years, McCarthy said he wasn’t persuaded.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • According to Victoria Burton-Harris, the chief assistant prosecuting attorney in Washtenaw County, the home invasion charge is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $2,000 fine.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The prosecution’s case was built from the more than three years of investigative work from over 20 people in the prosecuting attorney’s office and countless law enforcement officers in the Kansas City metro, Thompson said.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 25 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In his letter, Seidemann told Carro that the district attorney's office is ready for trial.
    MICHAEL R. SISAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Kaul is seeking re-election to the office in 2026 in a race that features a rematch with Republican Eric Toney, the Fond du Lac County district attorney.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Martinez was charged with assault of a federal employee, but prosecutors dropped the charges six weeks later.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Police, prosecutors and the family of Gastonia homicide victim John Luke Moore gathered at police headquarters Wednesday to plead with the public for information in the 2021 case.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026

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“Trial lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trial%20lawyer. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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