(n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
(n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
(v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(3) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(4) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
(5) At a home less than a block away, a man identifying himself as Tamir’s uncle said the boy’s family was not commenting and referred reporters to an attorney.
(6) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(7) The attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, declined to say where in Philadelphia his client will live while prosecutors appeal the superior court ruling.
(8) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
(9) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(10) The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said Heydon had “got it wrong” in his decision and had “not really approached this as an ordinary, fair-minded person would”.
(11) Decisions concerning appropriate treatment are often made by patients, attorneys, the disability determination system, employers, and judges for extraneous reasons, which include financial gain or personal bias and often reflect lack of current information.
(12) I want to make it very clear that the state’s attorney’s office did not release the Freddie Gray autopsy report,” she said.
(13) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
(14) An official in the Chicago police department’s office of legal affairs, Victor Castillo, has told the Guardian’s attorney that he needed the mayor’s office to sign off on the disclosure of at least one Homan Square-related document.
(15) Police and an attorney for the Gray family have said previously that Gray suffered a severe spine injury.
(16) His attorneys allege that the department contracts with the Apothecary Shoppe to provide the drug set to be used in Taylor’s 26 February lethal injection.
(17) Police are expected to seek talks with government legal officials and may seek guidance from the attorney general.
(18) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(19) Tim Casey, Arpaio's attorney, said the position of the Sheriff's Office "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions."
(20) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
Disbar
Definition:
(v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Example Sentences:
(1) The panel of seven judges disbarred him for 11 years, effectively ending Garzón's career .
(2) Li Heping said he had not been notified personally but had been told he was disbarred.
(3) Who knows what further horrors a rump of British jihadis disbarred from coming home might fashion from the safety of Islamic State ?
(4) My English mother (resident in France for over 15 years and thus disbarred from voting in a referendum that may affect her much more directly than most of her compatriots on this side of the Channel) is investigating naturalisation as the only way to continue receiving the costly healthcare on which she depends, but is terrified that such a step might deprive her of her UK state pension once Brexit occurs.
(5) The fact that I will continue to do no government work while I am chair of the EHRC I think should satisfy the committee and the secretary of state that that perceived interest is something that should not disbar me from proceeding in this role.” But Harman argued that conflict of interest was as much about “perception” as anything else.
(6) Together with Donald Lam, a streetwise disbarred lawyer who becomes her partner, Bertha had incredible longevity and featured in more than two dozen books.
(7) He was acquitted of criminal charges but the Michigan supreme court disbarred him, finding "overwhelming evidence" that Jenkins "sold his office and his public trust", according to the bar records.
(8) Rights lawyers, activists and others have been disbarred, detained and jailed.
(9) It runs on the new 3GS iPhone, last year's 3G, the original 2G and the iPod Touch and has addressed many user demands, although not the provision of Flash, which Apple has its own reasons for disbarring from the iPhone: Flash provides a back door through which developers could smuggle in unauthorised apps and Apple (for good reasons and bad) is allergic to the word "unauthorised".
(10) The church has an exemption from equalities and employment legislation allowing it to disbar women from the episcopate.
(11) "This will not affect his disbarment or the guilty verdict," said Mariola Urrea, a law professor at the University of La Rioja.
(12) At least 17 rights defence lawyers did not receive the new licences they needed at the end of last month, in effect disbarring them.
(13) When these laws reach the statue book just after the new year, the home secretary, Theresa May, will be able to disbar those she “reasonably suspects” of engaging in terrorism from returning to the UK for two years unless those suspects (who can include children) agree to their subsequent lives in Britain being monitored, controlled and directed by the authorities.
(14) That rule is now expected to be challenged at a UK level by a coalition of anti-domestic violence campaigners and women's aid groups, who will press for new laws that would automatically disbar a parliamentarian who is convicted of violence against the person, regardless of the type or length of their sentence.
(15) Thousands of people rallied on Sunday in Madrid in support of a disbarred judge well known for taking on international human rights cases.
(16) Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish human rights investigator disbarred as a judge on Thursday , announced he would appeal against his sentence, and launched a fierce attack on the supreme court judges who found him guilty of illegal wiretapping.
(17) Its methods disbar it from serious consideration as a natural science and its claims to therapeutic efficacy are in tatters.
(18) It just never happened.” He said he was considering taking legal action to have Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, the lawyers who filed the motion, disbarred for “knowingly filing … a false, malicious and defamatory statement in a lawsuit”.
(19) "Public interest lawyers who took cases deemed sensitive by the government faced disbarment and the closure of their firms, and in some cases were subject to arrest and detention.