Word: counsels
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...some good news to emerge from his travels to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories in that his presence did not detonate any religious or political dynamite. With the quest for peace between Israelis and Palestinians at a dangerous impasse, just making the Middle East trip - against the counsel of some of his more cautious advisers - would seem to carry some bankable positive weight for the Pontiff...
...Crist was named general counsel for the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. "A combination of two things I love: sports and law," he recalled...
...While Intel does not deny its rebate program, it argues that consumers were more helped than hurt from a price perspective. "Regulations should not prevent one company, no matter how large that company is, from offering discounts or providing incentives," said Intel General Counsel Bruce Sewell. He also noted that AMD, "the sole complainant in this case, is alive, healthy, and claims to be expanding its business...
...politicians were not the only ones with diametrically opposed views. David Luban, a law professor from Georgetown University, described the memos from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) as "an ethical train wreck." The OLC, he said, had tried to "reverse engineer" their memos to try and make illegal actions legal. Jeffrey Addicott, from St. Mary's University School of Law, took the opposite position, saying it was "propaganda" to describe the CIA's methods as torture. "We have tortured no one," he said...
...legal side, similar reactions have followed several of Nesson’s antics—a stable that includes posting internal legal documents and e-mails online for comment and revision, continually seeking to record his interactions with opposing counsel, and seeking to publicly depose the opposing side’s lawyer (a rarity in its own right) in the Ames Courtroom on the Harvard Law campus, so that an audience could attend. It’s not easy, perhaps, for the uninitiated to sort out the strangeness of these measures, but in the legal world, a profession where...