Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year contract, which is retroactive to November 14, provides for a 6-per-cent increase in wages for the first year, a 5.5-per-cent increase for the following year, with the increases especially geared to helping lower-paid workers, and increased vacation benefits, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, said yesterday...
That's an understandable desire, but Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, said, "We just don't have enough carpentry work for them right now." Powers's contention is the heart of the dispute. While the University contends there is not enough in-trade work for the 56 B&G carpenters, the union alleges that Harvard has enough work, but is contracting some of it out to independent firms. Union officials have not yet cited any specific cases of this outside contracting...
Harvard threatened to file suit against the locals and internationals involved in the job action to recover all damages incurred because of the strike. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, said last week that Harvard had compiled all the necessary papers, but had not yet decided whether it would actually go to court. The suit still stands ready and waiting, but inactive...
...ignores those that don't. Out of that come confusion and distortion, and the cleverer guy wins." The system also suffers from disparity among lawyers. Some are superior, and others are what U.S. Judge David Bazelon labels "walking violations of the Sixth Amendment" (which guarantees the right to counsel). As Bar Critic Jerold S. Auerbach put it, "Equal justice under law" all too often means "unequal justice under lawyers...
...only selected and flagrant violations result in a disbarment. Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free legal assistance to the indigent, for failing to disclose legal precedent contrary to his client's interests, for misrepresenting facts to judges, juries or opposing counsel, or for using political office or connections to attract clients, although the frequency of these occurrences is common knowledge...