Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JULY 1993, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE counsel Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners...
...Sister Helen states that a rich person will never sit on death row. This claim is quite believable when one compares O.J. Simpson's defense with one by an underprepared public defender who takes the case of a destitute defendant. And it seems especially unfortunate that when one has counsel that is incompetent in actuality (but not legally), potentially exculpatory evidence can arise too late for its acceptance by an appellate court due to temporal technicalities...
Past fellows include Neal Kravitz, principal Democratic deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater investigation; Victor Bolden, NAACP Legal Defense Fund assistant counsel; and Sally Goldfarb, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund senior staff attorney...
Prominent attorney and former Simpson counsel F. Lee Bailey was imprisoned last week after being held in contempt of court for his failure to turn over $24 million in stock to the federal government. The stock was rendered as payment to Bailey by a former client...
...anti-tobacco, has proclaimed his determination to make hash of his political enemies and refile the suit if necessary. "The Governor has made it very clear [that] if you expect access to this office to get the great favors, you're with him in this issue," says his general counsel, Dexter Douglas. "We've adopted fixed bayonets, and when that order comes, that's it. It's them or you. You start using the knives when the bullets...