Word: counseled
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Pennzoil's bankruptcy counsel, Michael Crames, insists that Texaco will not be able to borrow, offer collateral, sign leases or enter new lines of business without court permission. Says Crames: "Texaco is going to have to live in a goldfish bowl." As a member of Texaco's soon-to-be-formed unsecured-creditor committee, Pennzoil will have access to some of Texaco's sensitive documents and will be in a position to demand many more. Says Chairman Liedtke: "We want to make sure their money is spent wisely. We want to know everything." Texaco executives have said they will refuse...
...respite will be brief. On May 5, Congress is scheduled to begin its public hearings on the Iran-contra affair. While the scandal has been off the front pages recently, congressional investigators and Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh have slowly and meticulously been building a powerful case against the melodrama's key players. Sources close to the probe told TIME last week that there is now "enough evidence to indict people...
Some ask how the U.S. can call Soviet legal procedures unacceptable when used against Soviet dissidents but appropriate for supporting charges against accused Nazis of Baltic or Ukrainian descent. An unlikely coalition shares that view, including liberal former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is Linnas' lead counsel, and conservative ex-White House Aide Patrick Buchanan, who has called Soviet justice an "oxymoron." Leading the other side are Jewish organizations, committed to punishing perpetrators of the Holocaust, and the Justice Department, which says it sometimes has no choice but to settle for Soviet evidence. "The documents and the witnesses...
...Justice Department maintains that the documentary evidence is subject to rigorous scrutiny and testing by historians and handwriting, ink and paper experts for both the defense and the Government. Defense counsel are also invited to cross-examine witnesses when videotape depositions are taken in the Soviet Union, at U.S. expense in the case of indigents. Finally, an American court decides whether to accept such evidence and how heavily to rely on it. "Our system provides all the safeguards," says Sher...
Opinions are split on how Sofaer runs the office of legal adviser, a prestigious but traditionally little known department of some 100 lawyers that serves as principal counsel to the Secretary of State on matters of international law. To some observers, Sofaer has done no more than would be expected of an attorney serving his client -- even if that client is a policymaking arm of the U.S. Government. "Abe Sofaer is a great New York lawyer," Governor Mario Cuomo told a breakfast group. "If they tell him 'Make it legal, Abe,' he'll make it legal." Sofaer refuses...