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...more lawyers per person than any other nation and perhaps as a consequence of our fascination with "The Law," we seemingly buy more lawyers' autobiographies than any other people F. Lee Bailey, Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, and Wyoming lawyer Gerry Spence have all brought their legal battles from the courtroom to the book stores. As the most romanticized bailiffs, criminal defense lawyers have led this charge though they represent only a small fraction of all lawyers. A still tinier minority work as public defenders representing the accused who can't afford an F. Lee Bailey's legal fees...
Kunen uses the same autobiographical form that Bailey and Dershowitz do, but can't replicate the excitement and force of argument of his more senior colleagues. Kunen's book is dull, probably duller than most of the corporate contracts Law School grads do write--simply because his two and a half years working in the Washington courts were particularly dull. A street punk arrested for smoking on a bus inherently carries less drama than a Claus von Bulow on trial for murder. A Dershowitz arguing constitutional law before the Supreme Court is naturally more interesting than this rookie public defender...
...Brett, who was born with biliary artresia, a condition which prevents his liver from functioning properly. Last July, in one of his weekly radio addresses, President Reagan asked the country to aid a Texas infant suffering from the same disease. Reagan hoped to locate a liver for young Ashley Bailey. But a lack of transplantable organs is only one of the problems that faces the families of such children...
Hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service last week at Kilgore College. Says Kentucky Fried Chicken Supervisor Howard Bailey: "I've been in the grocery business for ten years. I've been held up. I've looked down the barrel of a gun. And the robbers took the money and were gone. This case, however, is very strange...
...Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where much of the once mighty American steel industry lies rusting, Business School Dean Elizabeth Bailey, 44, had barely moved into her office before she began looking for ways to stress real business problems instead of mathematical models. Says she: "We want to find practical uses for the models. We don't just want ideas. We want ways to fit those ideas to current industry problems." Bailey also plans to enhance Carnegie-Mellon's program in robotics in order to prepare students for the factory of the future. A member of the Civil...