English to Polish Law/Patents Law (general)

May 15, 2002, was Donna Newman's day to serve as a public defender at the federal courthouse for the southern district of New York. For lawyers in private practice like Newman, 54, it's the legal equivalent of being an on-call trauma surgeon at the local ER: if somebody needs a lawyer, she is it. "All I knew was, I had this assignment," she says, "and I had to come in that day." As it turned out, on May 15 somebody needed a lawyer very badly indeed. That was the day that Jose Padilla--former Chicago gang member, alleged would-be dirty bomber for al-Qaeda, constitutional test case for the new millennium--arrived in New York City. And by pure chance, it fell to Newman to defend him--which is how an obscure criminal-defense lawyer began her transformation into a crusader who is now suing the President of the United States.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003226,00....



Dosłowne tłumaczenie brzmiałoby "obrońca w sprawach karnych" jednak wydaje mi się, że jest to trochę przyrost formy nad treścią, tym bardziej, że jest to artykuł z "Time". Dlatego będę bardzo wdzięczna za pomoc:)