Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel Museum. Then they flew deep into the Sinai desert to hear Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman during a luncheon at a forward airbase. Next day, after going on to Egypt, the group crossed the Suez Canal as a guest of the Egyptian Second Army, saw the wrecked Bar-Lev line and toured Egyptian fortifications...
...these firms, the competition is brutal, and perhaps one in four survive to become partners six years later. The rest spin off to smaller firms, corporate jobs, Government work or other fields. The range of possible career paths is staggering. With the law explosion, a new member of the bar can elect to try a judicial clerkship, criminal law, tax practice, public interest work, corporate law, legal aid or work in public defenders' offices, a prosecutorial job at the state or federal level, Government practice in, say, a regulatory agency, or any number of others...
...those that don't. Out of that come confusion and distortion, and the cleverer guy wins." The system also suffers from disparity among lawyers. Some are superior, and others are what U.S. Judge David Bazelon labels "walking violations of the Sixth Amendment" (which guarantees the right to counsel). As Bar Critic Jerold S. Auerbach put it, "Equal justice under law" all too often means "unequal justice under lawyers...
Despite its flaws, legal scholars defend the adversary system. Notes a law school dean: "You have to compare it to alternatives. The adversary system works better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle...
...representative elected by the House, the attorney general or his designee, the state auditor or his designee and seven gubernatorial appointees. Only one of the governor's appointees may come from within the government; the remaining six which must include a registered architect, a member of the state bar, a certified public accountant, and a registered professional engineer, will be citizens who have not had contractual relations with the state for the last five years...