Word: courtrooms
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...School this June. Though the production team has faced challenges working in what Byrne describes as a presentation space rather than a theatrical one, Andreadis argues that the Forum lends itself particularly well to “Inherit the Wind.” The play takes place in a courtroom, and much of its dialogue consists of courtroom questioning and arguments by lawyers on both sides. Andreadis adds that members of the cast playing jurors will be sitting among the audience, and attorneys will address their speeches to them. “It’s trying to blow that...
Family and friends gathered in Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtroom last night to commemorate Shirin Shakir, a second-year Harvard Law student who died in a white water rafting accident in Cusco, Peru over spring break...
...wants you to believe he relied on his lawyers while at Enron, but he's not relying on them at trial," says Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a the textbook White Collar Crime. Lay's lead attorney, Mike Ramsey, has not returned to the courtroom after heart surgery. While his team of three attorneys, along with Lay's daughter Elizabeth Vittor, have been in charge since, Lay appears to be taking control of his defense himself. "He's thinking that he knows how to handle this," says Androphy. "You say to yourself, Is that...
...actually had. Lay testified that he sold the shares back to the company - rather than through his broker on the open market, in which case they would have been immediately reported - because it was "a lot more efficient." That was "a very unconvincing explanation," in the view of one courtroom observer, Houston attorney Michael Wynne, who is building his own case against banks that funded Enron in its last days...
...testiness on the stand also got bad marks from courtroom observers. Lay accused the prosecutor, for example, of "mincing words" and making bizarre assumptions that made no business sense. "Lay is not helping himself by being so contentious, and frankly, arrogant," says Wynne. "He speaks with the cadence of Richard Nixon...