Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel the University, put it this way, "Under the Bakke decision I think there can be minority sub-committees--the question is what their functions will be." That was a question the Bakke case was supposed to decide, but didn...
Some 2 million American families, largely blue-collar or middle-income, are now enrolled in prepaid legal plans similar to the group insurance plans in medicine. A few plans offer a full range of services, including counsel for criminal offenses; most are limited to routine procedures?divorces, wills, house closings, landlord-tenant problems. While the plans have not grown as quickly as consumer advocates had expected, they are considered the likeliest means of giving the middle class legal protections now enjoyed by increasing numbers of the poor (through legal aid programs) and the rich (who can afford...
...will be used for "preventive care" to avoid disputes or help resolve them outside the courtroom. Litigation may well increase?but only, says A.B.A. Consultant Philip Murphy, "because individuals with rights assert them rather than sleep on them." If most citizens are educated about their rights and have private counsel to help them, predict Werner Pfennigstorf and Spencer Kimball of the American Bar Foundation, there will be "dramatic changes in the social fabric...
...thing, he spent his awkward years in full public view. His father's influence landed him a job in his mid-20s as an assistant counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Then and during a later stint as the relentless harrower of Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby's rough image was frozen forever in many minds: an Irish Torquemada with a face like a fist and a voice out of Warner Bros, cartoons. He ran J.F.K.'s 1960 campaign in a manner that suggested, reasonably enough, that winning mattered most. As an activist Attorney General with a brother...
...popular one, especially during times of what the syndicated columnists like to call "campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government," instead of the more value...