Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Factory lawyers have little to do with the kind of TV law seen on Perry Mason and The Defenders. They rarely touch criminal cases, personal-injury suits or domestic relations. Most of their work is done outside the courtroom, and some senior partners have never argued a case before a judge and jury-a testament to Elihu Root's dictum that "a lawyer's business is to keep his clients out of litigation...
...mistresses at home and abroad. In return, Georgiev said, he tipped off the CIA to Communist strategy at the U.N., supplied secret intelligence about the Sino-Soviet split. He was so good at his job, Georgiev reported modestly, that the CIA gave him a diploma for efficiency, and the courtroom audience tittered when the ex-diplomat said he once asked the CIA to nominate him to succeed Dag Hammarskjold as U.N. Secretary-General...
Death, Please. As he entered the courtroom last week, Georgiev gave the audience one quick glance, then grimly pressed his lips together and listened to an hour-long reading of the indictment without a change of expression. He was "politically and morally corrupted to the marrow," declared the prosecutor. Why bother to disagree? With a shrug, and in a firm, soft voice, Georgiev requested his own death sentence...
...course nothing ever happens to a girl who can scrumptiously confide to her long-lost mate: "I want something I've been dreaming about for five years -a big fat double-dip chocolate soda." And in a courtroom climax, Doris demonstrates the All-America tactics that kept Eden intact: she crumples Connors with a swift jab to the midsection, slices one into the back of his neck, then whams her knee up for a jawbreaking finish. Adam is lucky to get away with his apple...
Whatever the performance he extracts from his psychiatric consultants, moist-eyed Mel Belli is sure to provide other actors in other parts. But if his past courtroom productions are a guide, Belli himself will play the leading role. He has appeared for the defense in more than 100 murder trials, has earned the title of "King of Torts" by his masterful presentation of medical evidence that has won his clients awards as high as $675,000 in personal injury cases. His chief strategy has been "demonstrative evidence"-graphic, often grisly visual aids-human skeletons, elaborate anatomical models, huge photographic blowups...