Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Wallace was venting his dudgeon, state prison authorities and other officials were privately welcoming the Johnson order. Alabama's prisons are so bad that the state's counsel had admitted last August that conditions violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. 'Concedes Robert Lamar, the Montgomery private lawyer representing the state of Alabama: "Many of the things the judge ordered are things the department of corrections has wanted to do for 50 years and couldn't because it was hamstrung by a lack of funds." Still, Lamar will appeal Johnson...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, said yesterday that after Spiro Pavlovich, alias Jason Scott Cord, was arrested, "rumors went around that someone else might be involved in the same thing...
...epidemic level of medical-malpractice cases, suits against lawyers are increasing at a steep rate. Companies insuring lawyers estimate that the number of claims has doubled in the past four years. The current issue of Juris Doctor reports that "warnings are out for every attorney." Predicts Fred Grabowsky, counsel to the District of Columbia bar: "This is the next growth area of the law. Once the doctors have been picked clean, the lawyers will be hauled in. People won't let any professionals get away with mistakes...
...husband, a retired general in the state National Guard. Her lawyer advised her that she had no claim to a share of her husband's pension. Then after the settlement she learned that such benefits are indeed considered community property in California. Mrs. Smith decided to sue her counsel. Three lawyers declined to take the case; Freidberg accepted it, took the attorney to court and eventually won a judgment of $100,000. Early last year the influential California Supreme Court upheld Mrs. Smith's claim in a decision that set high standards for the performance of attorneys. Said...
...Will is a political critic, not a philosopher, and his sharpest opinions conern present-day events. He originally came to Washington as a counsel to the Republican Policy Committee of the Senate, from the University of Toronto, where he taught political philosophy. Though he says he has never voted for a Democrat, he no longer regards himself as a Republican. "Watergate largely cured me", he says. "I think the party disgraced itself. The general line is that Watergate wasn't a party matter; it was a Nixon matter. It was a party matter: it was a party test...