lawyer
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Down the street from Bar Roma at a high-end furniture store, retired lawyer Alice Withaar, 65 years old, was looking for a sofa, a coffee table and two side chairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
According to her lawyer, Pike’s prognosis is unclear, as is the question of whether she will suffer a serious brain injury and loss of function.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
"This is why street performers often have to face municipal and police regulations governing public spaces, as well as state-specific anti-begging laws," says lawyer Kaushik Mitra.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
A longtime Wall Street lawyer, Clayton represented Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis and Barclays in its purchase of Lehman Brothers' assets.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
For a decade after graduating from college he probed his soul for signs of a divine calling while earning his keep as a country schoolteacher and then apprentice lawyer.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Government lawyers pointed to a provision of the 1996 immigration law that said people who entered the country illegally “shall be detained.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Criminal lawyers have welcomed the decision and the Conservatives say it is a "major victory" for those who fought to defend trial by jury.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
When they granted review of the case, they asked the lawyers on both sides to weigh in on whether the high court had “jurisdiction” to decide the Boulder case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
As of Thursday evening, Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator, her lawyers said in a court filing Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Ferdinand Barnett and other black lawyers and doctors hung out their shingles.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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