Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophomore recalls, "Last semester there was nobody here even close to my own age who could help explain things to me." An administrator, on the other hand, explains that there is a full list of advisors available to students: "At various times before reaching decisions she may need counsel or may wish to talk freely with an older person about her academic or personal life. At such times she can turn to her dean who keeps in touch with her academic progress and her personal welfare, to her instructors including the ordained ministers in the department of Biblical history...
Crucible Test. Disheartened as he was to hear the jury declare Baker a thief, tax evader and conspirator, Williams could not-and did not-complain. The trial confirmed the very creed that drives and goads him. "The Sixth Amendment gave every accused the right to have the assistance of counsel for his defense," says Williams. "The framers did not say every accused except gamblers, thieves and robbers...
...hand, laud him as a "guardian at the gate" of constitutional rights. Whatever the truth, the result earns Williams more than $200,000 a year and involves him in such diverse roles as president of the Washington Redskins football team, adviser to the American Civil Liberties Union, and general counsel of the Teamsters Union (though he no longer acts as the personal attorney of Jimmy Hoffa). He has a lawyer wife, seven children and a handsome home in Maryland's suburban Tulip Hill...
...counsel for the defense, Lane should never have gone to the jury-in this case the moviegoing public-with such a shaky case. He appears to be under the impression that Rush to Judgment rips the hide off America to expose the corruption beneath. But it only exposes the dry rot of his own unreasonable arguments...
...Justice William Brennan. They leave school without having confronted "one live man or woman who is immediately in need of legal advice." Most of them know too little about criminal law, to say nothing of trying a case. Yet every indigent U.S. felony defendant is now entitled to free counsel; the Government aims to furnish free legal advice in slums, and the whole country needs able young trial lawyers...