How to Use trial lawyer in a Sentence

trial lawyer

noun
  • 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
  • Hard-pressed to find work, the trial lawyer turned to building playgrounds as a volunteer.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nationally renowned trial lawyer Mark Lanier was set to give openings along with co-counsel Don Migliori.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Ellison, an African American who was raised Catholic and converted to Islam as a young man, was a trial lawyer in 2001.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • One of her state jobs was as a trial lawyer for the Oklahoma Department of Securities.
    Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Olivia, a trial lawyer, and Marguerite, a school psychologist, had been dating for a year and were planning to marry that winter.
    ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The state Supreme Court ruled by a 4-3 margin in April that Skakel’s trial lawyer was so ineffective that his right to a fair trial was violated.
    Courant Staff Report, courant.com, 12 June 2018
  • Here’s the back story on how Democrats in Congress turned a bipartisan effort to aid sick Marines into a new bounty for trial lawyers.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023

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