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The plaintiff (most probably at the suggestion of her attorney) changed strategy and decided to employ a procedural argument rather than substantive one.
We encourage families to obtain durable power of attorney for health care for their demented relatives and avoid the cost and procedures of guardianship.
In this instance, the cemetery's attorneys almost welcomed defeat as a way to end their ' ' untenable legal position.
Their voices show that attorneys were not always able to steer witnesses along by putting words in their mouths or by asking leading questions.
Surely opportunities to be physicians or attorneys should be confined to those who have the requisite talents.
Having established credibility, he then moves to challenge or contradict what the attorneys have said.
In the autumn of 1764 he seemed likely to return to office, either as attorney general or master of the rolls.
Less than 2.5 per cent of all inventories were for professional people (attorneys, apothecaries, barbers, schoolteachers, surgeons and clerks).
If the issue is borderline, then the competing efforts of attorneys will tend to reveal the issue's borderline status.
Some assistant district attorneys went as far as putting pressure on men to go through with a marriage.
In the late seventeenth century, it was quite probably through word of mouth and the brokerage of local attorneys.
As a consequence of these various pressures attorneys tended to remain aloof from politics and interested primarily in their own professional advancement.
For instance, following the injury the man completed college, then law school, and at the time of the study was a practicing attorney.
To a certain extent, the journal created an imagined professional community composed of the growing socio-professional class that included judges, public prosecutors, attorneys and clerks.
In the face of these developments, defense attorneys were learning to stay away from fingerprint examiners.
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