Robert Shapiro
Robert Shapiro
Robert Leslie Shapirois an American civil litigator and senior partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro, LLP. Shapiro is most recognized for being part of the "dream team" legal team which successfully defended O. J. Simpson in 1995, from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, in 1994. Shortly after the O. J. Simpson murder case, Shapiro steered his practice away from criminal defense toward...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth2 September 1942
CityPlainfield, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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It's not uncommon, and they are exercising their right to protest.
I'm sure all jurors have tremendous hardships that would greatly be alleviated with the largess of this court and by any type of compensation.
The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.
I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.
Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.
the best evidence in this entire case of credibility of a witness.
The internalization of order flow is essentially a kind of bulge-bracket dark book that allows order matching to occur at the NBBO.
(D)id you tell Larry Fiato that ... that you went to Rockingham because O.J. was a suspect, the husband is always a suspect, on the 18th floor of the balcony while smoking a cigarette in February of this year?
Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
Even though the name Monsanto isn't new, the concept of a life sciences industry is, ... We hope to capture the essence of our role in this emerging industry in our new positioning.
F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.
This combination could create a company that could operate even more successfully in this exciting era than either of us could separately, taking full advantage of the opportunities ahead of us...,
It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.
This is unethical conduct at it's highest and we will pursue all avenues.