Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STRANGERS ON A BRIDGE, by James B. Donovan. As onetime defense counsel for Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel, Lawyer Donovan reviews the trials and recounts his role in the subsequent spy-thriller negotiations that led to a dramatic moment of the cold war-the exchange of Colonel Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Powers...
Such strictures protect the right of a client to seek legal help in his own way and out of his own needs. But in a counsel-conscious age, the system may be a trifle obsolete. One effect of U.S.affluence for example, is that millions of new property owners need legal aid to buy, sell and bequeath. Yet, by all reports, many Americans go on shunning lawyers, either because they fear high fees or have no idea of how to hire a lawyer they can trust...
...Wisest Counsel. Challenged in the courts ever since (and outlawed in California in 1950), the plan was recently enjoined by Virginia's highest state court on the ground of illegal "channel ing" - meaning that most brotherhood injury cases go to brotherhood lawyers. Appealing to the Supreme Court, the trainmen argued that the Virginia injunction clearly denies rights guaranteed by the First and 14th Amendments...
...agree with this contention," wrote Justice Hugo Black in last week's majority opinion. Though Virginia is undoubtedly empowered to regulate law practice, said Black, it cannot forbid trainmen "to gather together" and seek "the wisest counsel" in pursuit of their legal rights. In sharp dissent, Justice Tom Clark argued that the decision "overthrows state regulation of the legal profession and relegates the practice of law to the level of a commercial enterprise." Even so, Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia means that lay organizations across the U.S. may now attempt all sorts of experimental group plans to put more lawyers...
Tasty Contract. Elizabethan literature roils with legalisms-Jonson's plays are filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant...