trial lawyer

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Recent Examples of trial lawyer 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 Alexandra Shapiro, one of the controversial mogul’s trial lawyers, spoke to Business Insider about his plans of becoming an anti-domestic violence counselor. Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 11 Aug. 2025 The trial lawyers’ group has contributed $9.5 million, and the manufacturers nearly $8 million since 2000. Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025 The legislation that cleared the House and Senate in a single afternoon is the product of intense negotiations resolved with unusual alacrity by traditional antagonists at the state Capitol on business and insurance issues: unions vs. business, and trial lawyers vs. insurers. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 20 May 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
  • Role as federal public defender Nachmanoff formerly served as a federal public defender from 2002 to 2015.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Brown’s public defender in that case requested an evaluation of his mental competency.
    Mary Ramsey Updated September 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 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
  • Scott’s new lawyer, former Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, had brought the case to the district attorney and pushed for his release.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The heart of the First Amendment disagreement between Chung and Rosen was whether Chung was writing in his personal capacity or as a representative of the district attorney’s office.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The federal prosecutors who had worked to bring the bosses to justice asked a judge to release two of them.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Mary Collins, a 20-year-old with a cognitive disability, died in 2020 after prosecutors said she was lured to an apartment and stabbed 133 times, the Observer previously reported.
    Mary Ramsey Updated September 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Trial lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trial%20lawyer. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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