Search Details

Word: burrs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...extension of the Fogg Museum. Must they? Bury Hall, the previous occupant on that land, was innocuous enough. At least it did not hinder one's enjoyment of Gund Hall or William James Hall. Did I say enjoyment? Sorry, I meant toleration Even better was the land alter Burr had been demolished, when no building sat there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Horror | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

...Ambulatory care is the wave of the future," Francis H. Burr '35, chairman of the board of one of them, Massachusetts General Hospital, said yesterday...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Hospital Follows Trends in Expansion | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

Sargeant and Burr say these multiple connections between their firm and their alma mater are purely coincidental, but the two institutions' histories have long been intertwined. Like Sargeant, John Chipman Gray, a member of Harvard's Class of 1859 and one of the firm's founders, simultaneously handled Harvard's account at the firm and lectured at the Law School a century ago. Burr is the third in a string of lawyers which provided Ropes and Gray with virtually uninterrupted representation on the Corporation from 1905 to Burr's resignation, and Gray's co-founder John Codman Ropes, Class...

Author: By Michael F. P. doming, | Title: Moving Away From Ropes and Gray | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...surprising advocate of large in-house legal operations is Burr, who earns his living representing corporate clients. He not only favors a strong internal legal office at Harvard but says he had recommended that his clients do the same. Burr agrees with Kolb's claim that inside counsel often "solve problems before they get big." In his experience, he says, in-house legal offices have generally only proved inefficient when poor lawyers have run them...

Author: By Michael F. P. doming, | Title: Moving Away From Ropes and Gray | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...chapter in the firm's relationship with Harvard may have ended when Burr resigned from the Corporation and was replaced by Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, the chief executive officer of Gillette (a Ropes and Gray client whose account Burr helps handle). During his years on the governing board. Burr says he avoided personally handling any legal work for the University, citing an old lawyer's adage. "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client...

Author: By Michael F. P. doming, | Title: Moving Away From Ropes and Gray | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next