Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best method, Mr. Morse said, for studying the preparation and trial of cases is to attend prominent trials in court, and watch the counsel conduct cases of different types. Contrary to some views held at present, the jury system is the best one that can be devised. In trials by jury a lawyer should prepare his facts carefully and above all-promptly; while a personal knowledge of the witnesses is essential...
Samuel Hoar '67, a Fellow of Harvard College, general counsel for the Boston and Albany railroad, a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the leading lawyers of the State, died of cerebral hemorrhage, with paralysis, at his home in Concord yesterday morning. He had been ill just two weeks...
...with his uncle, Senator G. F. Hoar '46, at Worcester, and at the Law School during the year 1869-70. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1870, and then practiced law in Boston, engaging largely in corporation work, especially for the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose general counsel he has been since 1887. The same year he was elected an Overseer of the College, was reelected in 1893, and was chosen a Fellow of Harvard college without time limit in 1894. He was appointed counsel for the Boston Terminal Company, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life...
...Samuel Hoar '67, a Fellow of the University and general counsel for the Boston & Albany Railroad, lies critically ill at his home in Concord, suffering from cerebral hemorrhage, with paralysis. He was taken ill a week age. The latest report last night gave his condition as very low and dangerous...
...also took a prominent part in defending the new interstate commerce laws. In the Iron-Pipe Trust case, he obtained the first judicial decision condemning a manufacturing trust under the federal anti-trust law. Mr. Whitney also drew up the New York tenement house law of 1901 as counsel for the State Tenement House Committee. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Whitney is lecturer on international law at the New York Law School...