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Legal Advisor

Legal Adviser of the Department of State, a position in the government of the United States



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Attorney General of the United Kingdom

Lord Advocate, until 1999, the former position for the top legal advisor on Scots law.

Baik Tae-ung

Baik was a legal advisor for the South Korean Delegation in the 56th United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and has worked for Human Rights Watch in New York as a legal adviser.

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend (d. 1493) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1484.

Cheryl-Lynn Vidal

There, she joined the Office of the DPP and later the Attorney-General's Ministry as Crown Counsel, and also worked as a legal advisor for the Belize Police Department and as acting Registrar-General.

Clement Kinloch-Cooke

Later he was legal advisor to the House of Lords Sweating Commission and private secretary to Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1885–87).

Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth

He served from 1979 to 1987 as Standing Junior Counsel (legal advisor appointed by the Lord Advocate) to the Department of Health and Social Security, and from 1985 to 1988 as an Advocate Depute, representing the Crown in prosecutions and appeals in the High Court.

Didier Pfirter

He was the legal advisor to Álvaro de Soto, the Special Cyprus Advisor of the UN's Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Ambassador at Large for Special Assignments at the Swiss Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Elías Rodríguez

From 1998 to 2002 he worked as an external legal advisor to the Trujillo provincial municipality.

Fanuel Kozonguizi

After serving as a lawyer in London for a short time, Kozonguizi returned to Namibia in 1976 as legal advisor to Clemens Kapuuo and the OvaHerero delegation at the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference.

Frank Dermody

Dermody also worked as a legal advisor to Allegheny County's district justices, an instructor at the Community College of Allegheny County, and a faculty member of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education.

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

Goripalayam Mosque

Hazrat Kazi Syed Tajuddin Radiyallah, the founder of Kazimar Big Mosque and who lived in Kazimar Street was government Kazi (Islamic legal advisor and jury) to the Sultans.

Ignacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del Río

During the first and second sieges of Zaragoza, he served as legal advisor to José Rebolledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa, and assisted the Spanish resistance against Napoleon by contributing journalistic pieces to the Gazeta extraordinaria de Zaragoza.

Institute for Middle East Understanding

The names included, Samar Assad, Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, Diana Buttu, a Ramallah-based attorney and former advisor to Palestinian negotiators, Omar Dajani, a San Francisco-based law professor and former legal advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larson and Nadia Hijab, a Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Palestine Studies.

Itamar

In March 2012, Attorney Doron Nir Tzvi, legal advisor for the Committee of Samaria Residents, filed a complaint against Haaretz reporter Neri Livneh for describing the town as "especially aggressive" and claiming that "every two years a murderer comes out of there" in a television appearance.

Janelle Saffin

Saffin had met East Timorese foreign minister José Ramos-Horta a number of times as an MP, and in 2004, having left politics, she moved to East Timor to take up a position as Ramos-Horta's chief political and legal advisor.

Jorge Rossi Chavarría

During the years 1947 and 1948, he served as legal advisor to the Costa Rican Confederation of Workers of Rerum Novarum.

Karam Chand Jain

Rai Sahib Karam Chand Jain was the first Legal Advisor of the War & Supply Department of India and Special Police Establishment (SPE), which later developed into the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Lidings

In 2009 Lidings major international companies listed in the Fortune Global 500 3M, ASUSTeK Computer Inc., Crédit Agricole, ExxonMobil, ING Group, Japan Tobacco International, Norsk Hydro ASA, OMV Group, Royal Dutch Shell and UniCredit Group choose Lidings as their legal advisor in Russia.

M. E. Hart

He had numerous positions in law and education, including Attorney/Producer at the Federal Judicial Center, Legal Advisor to the Director of the Office of Human Rights in Washington, D.C., and Equal Employment Opportunity Investigator for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Mahendra Singh Pal

He is also President of the High Court Bar Association, Uttaranchal and a legal advisor to the Soldier Board in Haldwani.

Miles Beevor

He became chief legal advisor for London and North Eastern Railway in 1943, a post he held until the LNER was nationalised.

Monte N. Stewart

Stewart served for at time as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada pursuant to an appointment by the Federal Judges of that District, and later was a legal advisor to Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah.

Patrick Swaffer

Patrick Swaffer (born 12 February 1951) is the current President of the British Board of Film Classification formerly a legal advisor to the BBFC he was appointed President of the BBFC by the BBFC's Council of Management after an open competition on 17 October 2012.

Phillip Jauregui

He served the executive branch as Assistant Legal Advisor to Alabama Governor Fob James.

Richard Terrin

After graduating from the Northwestern University School of Law, Terrin worked briefly as a prosecutor, then served in various positions with the American administration in the Philippines, most notably working as primary staff aide and legal advisor to Governor-General of the Philippines Dwight F. Davis.

Septimus Burt

He was a synodsman, trustee and legal advisor for the Church of England, and a close friend of Archbishop Charles Riley.

Sibyl Sanderson

Sibyl's father Silas Sanderson was a California politician and lawyer; after serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, he became a highly paid legal advisor to the Southern Pacific Railroad.

The Pirate Bay raid

Mikael Viborg, the legal advisor to The Pirate Bay, was arrested at his apartment, brought in for questioning, forced to submit a DNA sample and had his electronic equipment seized.

Theodhori Sollaku

During Sali Berisha's presidency in the 1990s, Sollaku served as the President's Legal Advisor.

Valerie Goulding

Her father was a British lawyer and politician, and became chief legal advisor to King Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis in 1936.

Walter Kamba

He served as a legal advisor to the ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU delegations at the Lancaster House Conference.

Władysław Siemaszko

Siemiaszko graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków and became a legal advisor and defence lawyer.

WUB Morning Vibes

In January 2010 a legal advisor of the Dean Barrow administration and an ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs used the show to criticize a statement by foreign affairs minister Wilfred Elrington calling Belize’s border with Guatemala “artificial”.