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Thinking in large, impressive figures, as is his habit, Negligence Lawyer Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny...
...courtroom defeats are not necessarily final. Belli promptly requested that the presiding judge overrule the jury on the question of liability and or der a new trial to determine damages...
...killing in world history. It was only a bail hearing in Dallas' criminal court, but in its course the lawyers clearly showed their intent to prove that Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald while temporarily insane from the shock of President Kennedy's assassination. If Chief Counsel Melvin Belli can prove that-and prove as well that Ruby is now recovered-it is possible that, under Texas law, Ruby could be a free...
Unlike The Defenders. In both style and substance, most of the law practiced in the big shops differs radically from the work of attorneys who operate alone or in small firms. A rare star performer, such as Edward Bennett Williams or Melvin Belli, may get rich with an essentially one-man show, but the average income of U.S. lawyers working on their own comes to about $8,000 a year. In big firms, the starting salary for an associate fresh from law school is about $8,000, and the average income of partners and associates is about four times that...
...feel wonderful," beamed Jack Ruby, 52, after he appeared before Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown for a bail-bond hearing in the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. And that was the tone of the whole affair. Judge Brown had outraged Ruby's defense attorney, Melvin Belli, by ruling that TV cameras would be out of court when Ruby comes to trial in February. But then the judge went ahead and hired his own public relations firm. "Decorum will be maintained," trumpeted the first release...