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Noun
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One afternoon in February of 2024, Grant Ford, an art adviser and dealer in the English town of Marlborough, received a phone call from a local lawyer named David J. Goldsmith.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025 -
His lawyer John Cantrell said he was found dead at home on June 5.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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The foreperson had spoken privately with Judge Farber and the attorneys about the situation earlier on Wednesday.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
12 June 2025
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At the hearing, the attorneys were supposed to be prepared to address a trial setting, a cutoff date for disclosing expert witnesses, a schedule for preparing the case for trial, any issues to be addressed by the judge and the status of any settlement negotiations.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2025
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Shue said the conflict of interest was such that the circuit court granted his motion of designation and appointment of a special prosecuting attorney.—
River Valley Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
10 June 2025
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The charges were the result of a monthslong investigation in which the county's prosecuting attorney's office worked with six police jurisdictions.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 June 2025
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In the case of Jay-Z, the billionaire has come out swinging against attorney Tony Buzbee, branding him an ambulance chaser and calling him a 1-800 lawyer.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2025
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My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.—
Shannon Power,
Newsweek,
13 Dec. 2024
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When Robinson eventually returned to the airport to board another flight, he was detained, the district attorney’s office said.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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If convicted, Soliman could face up to 48 years in prison for each victim, said Michael Dougherty, the district attorney for Colorado’s 20th Judicial District.—
Jeremy Harlan,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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Brown is a veteran personal injury trial lawyer who made his name handling cases from minor injuries to multi-million-dollar claims.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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Rovner wrote Coleman’s trial lawyer knew about the video recordings.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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In 2019, the General Assembly passed a bill censoring the speech of counselors who discuss gender identity.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
7 June 2025
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Michael Schiffer served as assistant administrator for Asia at USAID in the Biden administration, senior advisor and counselor at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and prior to that, at the Department of Defense in the Obama administration.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.—
Eliza Strickland,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Mar. 2025
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Holmes is another shyster whose story has been dissected in several documentaries and in dramatizations like Hulu’s The Dropout, but Gibney brings specific insights and a fresh perspective to this truly unbelievable story.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
31 July 2024
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“Philadelphia lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Philadelphia%20lawyer. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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