trial lawyer

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Recent Examples of trial lawyer In 2022, Avery's trial lawyers, Dean Strang and Jerome Buting wrote a letter to Evers requesting clemency for Dassey. Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 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 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
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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
  • But by the time of his hearing in federal court on Thursday afternoon, paperwork had not yet been filed in the case, and Taras had neither seen the charges against him or spoken with his attorney about them, public defender Rachelle Barbour said in court.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Macomb County has a new public defender leading an office of nearly two dozen attorneys providing legal defense and representation to those who cannot afford it in Michigan's third most populous county.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nimish Ganatra, senior assistant prosecuting attorney in Washtenaw County, alleges Savit suspended him and placed him under investigation for filing a Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission complaint against an unnamed Washtenaw assistant prosecutor Ganatra supervised.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Minor pleaded guilty Monday to DWI and was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 89 days suspended and credit for one day jail time served, fined $500 and assessed $360 in court fees, according to deputy prosecuting attorney Charles Duell.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The district attorney's office is now pursuing two lesser charges against him — vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and child abuse/endangerment under circumstances or conditions likely to cause GBI or death — per the district attorney's news release.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • After graduating from Harvard and earning a law degree from Stanford, Torrez returned to Albuquerque to be an assistant district attorney.
    Charlotte Alter, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the site, investigators found a screwdriver, saws, the blowtorch and three gas canisters used to power the blowtorch, according to the prosecutor’s office.
    Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Charges The obstruction charge centers on allegations that Comey directed subordinates to remove or conceal those memos from FBI systems after his dismissal in May 2017, actions prosecutors claim impeded a lawful investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified material.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Trial lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trial%20lawyer. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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