Members of the bar

Usage examples of lawyers.

Like a general moving his troops, Clay assigned two lawyers and a paralegal to the Skinny Ben front.

Rodney controlled the grapevine rumors and gossip and knew more about OPD lawyers and their caseloads than Glenda, the Director.

Glenda had spent two years trying to implement a simple call-ahead method whereby OPD lawyers, and everyone else for that matter, could telephone an hour before they arrived and their clients would be somewhere in the vicinity of the attorney conference room.

In law school, he had once attended a panel discussion on large settlements, and what lawyers should do to protect their unsophisticated clients from the temptations of instant riches.

In reality, the five would shuffle paperwork and cover the administrative chore of keeping fifty thousand or so clients and their lawyers somewhat organized.

It flipped the bird to all the lawyers and all their clients and left the building.

Chamber of Commerce, who railed against lawsuits in general and trial lawyers in particular.

On the other side was a table where the defense lawyers came and went as the assembly line sputtered along.

IN A CITY of 76,000 lawyers, many of them clustered in megafirms within rifle shot of the U.

Some OPD lawyers were zealously committed to defending the poor and oppressed, and for them the job was not a stepping-stone to another career.

OPD had eighty lawyers, all working in two cramped and suffocating floors of the District of Columbia Public Services Building, a pale, square, concrete structure known as The Cube, on Mass Avenue near Thomas Circle.

Every year for the past eight Glenda had submitted a budget requesting ten more lawyers and a dozen more paralegals.

Her quandary at the moment was which paralegals to terminate and which lawyers to force into part-time work.

For the first two years at OPD he had refused to display the diploma for fear that the other lawyers would wonder why someone from Georgetown was working for minimum wages.

At one point early in his young career Clay had brought along thick law books to read and highlight in yellow and thus impress the other lawyers with his intensity.