Word: counsels
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Some of the dozens of guest speakers at this year's conference included Susan Zirinsky, senior producer at CBS News: Jolene Unsoeld, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Faith Adiele, coordinator of Education for Action; and Margaret H. Marshall, Harvard's vice president and general counsel...
William Kunstler, whom wags have called "the most hated lawyer in America," died Monday in New York of a heart attack. The radical barrister, once "special trial counsel" to Martin Luther King Jr., made a national name for himself defending the Chicago Seven and, more recently, such diverse and controversial figures as Indian activist Leonard Peltier, flag burner Gregory Johnson, mob boss John Gotti and Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Marion Barry. "He was definitely one of the leading left-of-center lawyers in this century," says legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided...
...months independent counsel Kenneth Starr has been investigating the Whitewater affair, he has always telegraphed his punches. Early on, he did not deny reports that Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker was a prosecutorial goal-and eventually Tucker was indicted. In May, Starr quashed speculation about the imminent indictment of presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey; Lindsey has not been indicted...
...there were 11 new charges against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who did legal work for the failed savings and loan owned by the McDougals. (Tucker was indicted in June on separate charges.) President Clinton and his wife were not charged-as an accompanying press release from independent counsel Kenneth Starr pointed...
...Federal bank investigator L. Jean Lewis told a House panel that government higher-ups engaged in a "concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the S&L that is at the heart of the Whitewater case. At the Senate hearings, former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum adamantly told skeptical Senators that his controversial search of the late Vincent Foster's files was but one of the many "right calls" he made to protect legitimate confidences and was not a Whitewater cover...