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This is fertile ground for non-lawyers to provide much needed legal or quasi-legal advice to the public.
Access to Legal Services: Lessons from the Medical Profession (Part 3 of 3) : Law is Cool 2009
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Every time another banker bonus is announced, Congress screams, and its staffers look for some quasi-legal way of capping financial salaries.
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The staff is helpful, obviously well trained, and willing to render legal or quasi-legal advice … although not necessarily correct advice, it's nevertheless helpful for foreigners, often with limited networks otherwise able to provide counsel;
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Mids took to smoking spice because it can't be detected in the random drug tests periodically required of them, and because of its quasi-legal status -- although that is rapidly changing.
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And the full force of both the persecution of "aliens" and Shylock's concomitant revenge emerge in a remarkable trial scene: not a judicially correct event but an undergound, quasi-legal proceeding in which Antonio is clad in the orange suit of a political prisoner and the Mafioso duke is surrounded by pistol-packing henchmen.
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With a number of law firms launching Crisis Management divisions, it made sense to me that we even the playing field a little by adding some quasi-legal clout to our activities, said Jonathan Bernstein, president of Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
Jonathan Bernstein: Mom Always Said I Should Be a Lawyer Jonathan Bernstein 2011
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Naturally, Kristol hates him, because terrorists should just languish in quasi-legal status forever as a lesson to people who hate us for how reasonable we are as a society!
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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Naturally, Kristol hates him, because terrorists should just languish in quasi-legal status forever as a lesson to people who hate us for how reasonable we are as a society!
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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The British would have balked at quasi-legal barbarism of this magnitude.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations 2010
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Mids took to smoking spice because it can't be detected in the random drug tests periodically required of them, and because of its quasi-legal status -- although that is rapidly changing.
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