In much of the area, legal and school officials voiced alarm.

In deciding whether to take the case to trial, this legal official acts on the basis of the material provided by the police.

Warner would also have named the new company's chief financial officer and chief legal official.

Those functions were previously handled by individuals who reported to the exchange's top legal and regulatory officials.

But across the country, legal and public officials have expressed dismay over the firings.

In principle, a sheriff is a legal official with responsibility for a county.

None of which is to say that the legal officials and judges tried in Alstoetter weren't monstrous.

The postwar German track record in trying judges and legal officials was consistent with this view.

No legal officials or judges from either ordinary or party courts were tried for decades.

But Microsoft is also under examination by the top legal officials in big states; they, too, are looking at its marketing practices.