How to Use trial lawyer in a Sentence

trial lawyer

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  • As a 20-year trial lawyer, the judge called it pretty fairly.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 3 June 2022
  • That all changed in summer 2020, when the trial lawyer dipped her tongs into the world of TikTok videos.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Pate’s law firm, Pate, Johnson & Church, described him as a trial lawyer of more than 25 years.
    — Martin Savidge, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Among those in attendance was Todd Spodek, her trial lawyer, who did not leave with any of the drawings.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • He was sentenced to death in 1998, but the Missouri Supreme Court tossed the sentence due to errors by Deck's trial lawyer.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2022
  • He was sentenced to death in 1998, but the Missouri Supreme Court tossed the sentence due to errors by Deck’s trial lawyer.
    — NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • Where there is pain and suffering, there are trial lawyers looking to make a buck.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Hard-pressed to find work, the trial lawyer turned to building playgrounds as a volunteer.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2020
  • All trial lawyers must be versed in this dark art — hopefully more to guard against than practice it.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Trusty felt Epshteyn was not a trial lawyer and focused too much on Trump’s P.R. issues, not legal ones.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
  • Now the trial lawyers in the case of the five people charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks are watching how Mr. Khan’s sentencing judge, Col.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • Tacopina is a flashy, brawny bulldog of an attorney, like a stock photo of a New York City trial lawyer come to life.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The group said Johnson's trial lawyers failed to interview a key witness who saw a White man fleeing the home of Thompson, who was Black.
    — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • His brother Kevin Goldberg is the former head of the state’s association of trial lawyers and a member of the team.
    — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Justices said in the new ruling that Skakel’s trial lawyer failed to present an alibi witness.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The judge then retained a high-profile trial lawyer to represent him before the appeals court.
    — Ann E. Marimow, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2020
  • Page Pate, 55, worked for more than 25 years as a trial lawyer and divided his time between offices in Atlanta and Brunswick on the coast.
    — CBS News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For nearly 20 years, Bailey has been a civil defense trial lawyer in Huntsville.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Somebody gets hurt and the trial lawyers pounce, seeking assets wherever they may be found.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In an American court, trial lawyers can strike or accept jurors from a pool of the defendant’s peers.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Morgan & Morgan may deserve to be fired, but that is no reason to slander trial lawyers.
    — WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Dougherty’s death sentence was reduced to life in prison in 2012, due to the ineffectiveness of his trial lawyer.
    — Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Moreover, my career as a trial lawyer, spending each day in court, has exposed me to the vast majority of judges statewide.
    — John "johnny" Weekes, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • Lopez, a trial lawyer, gave Martin an antique cushion cut stone set on a thin pavé diamond band.
    — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Blue held a hearing and ruled that Komisarjevsky’s trial lawyers did not receive recordings of at least four calls from the morning of the home invasion.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Nonetheless, the mere existence of the waiver form may not deter a trial lawyer, Abraham said.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • For better or worse, the high profile trial lawyer's address has become an attraction of late.
    — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2018
  • Syed appealed on grounds that this trial lawyer failed him by not calling the alibi witness Asia McClain.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Alex Murdaugh is—or at least was, before he was disbarred—a talented trial lawyer.
    — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • More and more, trial lawyers are also inviting settlement planners to educate them about their clients’ options.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024

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