Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FREEDMAN: I understand. That's a rather serious step to take. It would be easier for us to address that question before your Honor before it ever got to the Bar Association if we knew what rule of what code or what canons, or whatever it is, that Mr. Dershowitz is supposed to have violated...
...have done some research on the issue, particularly with reference to ABA standards relating to the defense function and the code of professional responsibility; according to those authorities an attorney is required to press all legally available points, his client's desires in the matters are paramount, his professional opinion, his own professional opinion of the merits of the point that is raised is irrelevant, and the only test is, indeed, even if the rule that is argued for is "unwarranted under existing law" as long as it is supportable by a good faith argument the attorney is required...
True, the nature of the American press is confusing. It is a profitmaking enterprise, but it is not judged chiefly by commercial success. It performs a public service, but it is neither regulated nor licensed. Journalists have considerable power to help or hurt, but there is no code, no professional association to judge their performance. Paradoxical though all this may appear, it simply means that the American press is free-and would lose all its value to the country if it were otherwise...
However shocking the two lawyers' silence may have been, it appears to be legally sound. The American Bar Association's Code of Professional Responsibility upholds the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship. Almost unanimously, A.B.A. members agree that this "sacred trust" is essential if the attorney is to represent his client properly. "The conduct of the lawyers is absolutely correct," says Hofstra University Law Dean Monroe Freedman. "If they had acted otherwise, it would be a serious violation of their professional responsibility...
...room King David Hotel for the Nixon party. One guest who was allowed to stay: a 93-year-old American woman who was conducting research in history and was deemed to be no security threat. Also emptied was the 110-room Y.M.C.A. across the street. In the King David (code-named "Beehive"), the Nixons occupied the presidential suite on the sixth floor, which was Kissinger's quarters when he was flying his diplomatic shuttle between Jerusalem and Damascus. This time the Secretary was relegated to a lower floor. Everything was as ready for Nixon as a sprinter...