Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House editors, of course, rendered Lewinsky a witness for the defense (as indeed she was in the bulk of her deposition), while Jordan -- with David Kendall letting the tape run -- went back to sounding like just another humble fixer with friends at the top. White House counsel Nicole Seligman called the technique "context," and it poked enough holes in the managers' tapestry for the 44 Democrats who already voted for dismissal to get a good night's sleep. (Isn't there a moral in the fact that, on several occasions, the two sides used the same clips?) His trial...
...They have an investigation going on," said Anne Taylor, Harvard's general counsel. "We have cooperated with the investigation...
...wonderful experience to have a book and a movie about you," joked Jan R. Schlichtmann, counsel for the plaintiffs. "I encourage all of you to have...
...controversial figures in Starr's office and the one most despised by the White House. A veteran of the Justice Department's public-integrity section, Bennett has been under wraps ever since the federal judge overseeing Starr's grand jury called for an investigation of leaks from the independent counsel's shop; Bennett had been fingered as one of the media's main contacts there. Could his departure mean that he saw diminished prospects that PRESIDENT CLINTON would ever be indicted? Starr's office declined to comment...
Cheryl Mills is definitely one tough sister. Though she had little courtroom experience, last week she stood in the well of the Senate, showing tremendous poise as she defended the President and took the House impeachment managers by storm. A little-known White House deputy counsel, Mills hurled their hypocrisy back in their faces. The managers, she intoned, had argued that "the entire house of civil rights might well fall" if Clinton escaped conviction. You could almost hear her muttering, "Spare me." "We've had imperfect leaders in the past," said Mills, referring to Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln...