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malpractice insurance
malpractice insurance Protection of professional people (attorneys, doctors or accountants) against claims of liability. Source: FindLaw
open court
a recorded judicial proceeding that is presided over by a judge and attended by the parties and their attorneys and that is convened for the purpose of conducting official business compare in camera 2 : a session
sidebar
: the place near or before the bench where a sidebar conference takes place [the judge informed both attorneys…that they…could stand at while questions were posed "Commonwealth v. Urena, 632 N.E.2d 1200 (1994)"] compare bench, stand sidebar
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struck jury
jury that is selected from a venire of usually forty people from which potential jurors are struck by attorneys for each side alternately until a specified number (as twelve) of jurors are left 2 : special jury
Lawyer
of lawsuits or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters It is a general term comprehending attorneys counselors solicitors barristers sergeants and advocates
Champarty or champerty
c. 9. It is an aggravated form of maintenance, See Hutley v. Hutley, (1873) LR 8 Q 112; Attorneys and Solicitors Act (in re:), 1870 (1875) 1 Ch D 573; Holden v. Thompson, 1907 (2) KB 489;
Proctor
the university. Proctors in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts formerly discharged duties similar to those of solicitors and attorneys in other courts, as and being a separate body of practitioners. The title still survives, but the separation
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