Word: chaleff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lawyers may also be following the Simpson case in dismay, but they are hard put to come up with any solutions. "What can you do?" asks Gerald Chaleff, past president of the L.A. County Bar Association. "Socialized lawyers? You can't bring everyone down to the lowest denominator." Perhaps the impetus for reform at the top of the heap, as well as at the bottom, will only come after cases such as O.J.'s demonstrate that too much money doesn't just subvert the justice system, it can stop it in its tracks...
...disputes that may shine a light on various areas of the criminal-justice system that are going awry," says Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School. "Who's going to shine a light on the way the system works other than the people enmeshed in it?" Gerald Chaleff, one of Southern California's top criminal-defense attorneys, warns, "You judge a society by how it imposes its harshest penalty, and in the U.S. we are now in a rush to see that it happens quickly rather than that it happens fairly...