Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as we let them think and act for us, as long as we will bow to their opinions, and acknowledge that their word is counsel and their will is law; so long they will outwardly treat us as men while in their hearts they still hold us as slaves...
...students handed out a pamphlet which stated that the firm, "through its work as counsel and through the power and financial interest of its partners has played a leading role in furnishing American economic and political support to South Africa...
...relative, he seemed entitled to press the claim. But a cousin, 40-year-old John Forbes-Sem-pill, contested the succession, asserting that he was the rightful heir because Sir Ewan had been registered as female at birth and females cannot inherit baronetcies. "My client," Sir Ewan's counsel retorted, "has been male since birth. He was wrongly registered as a female." Earlier this year, an Edinburgh court accepted Sir Ewan's arguments, and last week Home Secretary James Callaghan settled the matter by ordering that Sir Ewan's name be placed on the official roll...
Wherever there is an unpopular cause that most lawyers would not dare touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...
...special counsel for Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Kunstler sprang many a demonstrator from Southern jails. Later, he argued the celebrated case that declared de facto school segregation in Washington, B.C., unconstitutional. Though he won on the main point, Kunstler could not get the judge to agree to a more radical proposal. He asked that the court order the Government to force a merger of schools in Washington with those in the white suburbs of Maryland and Virginia...