Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helping Drunken Drivers As an attorney, I feel a response is required to those who wrote letters criticizing lawyers who defend drunken drivers [Feb. 6]. It is sad that many people feel compelled to crusade against one group or another and then to use that forum to chastise attorneys. If we disregard the right to a defense of a group that is held in disfavor, then the protection of the law will potentially be unavailable...
...alcohol abuse. The authors of the letter state they are concerned about the drunk driver, yet the administration prohibits the serving of alcohol at campus parties even to people of legal age. Increasingly, Harvard's social life is moving off campus to Cambridge bars, other colleges, finals clubs, and drunken drives to and from Kenmore Square. The deans seem to take great pride in making Harvard's campus the most boring in the Ivy League...
With such rewards at stake, it is no surprise that legal workshops on drunken-driving defense are well attended. Nichols and Joye, along with two other attorneys and two scientists, have been running one of the most successful. Incorporated under the name Continuing Education Seminars, the group is currently on a 15-city tour; as many as 100 local attorneys attend the one-day sessions, which cost $160. Other popular seminars have been offered by local trial lawyers' groups and the American Bar Association...
...laws have made it more difficult to get off scot-free," says Maryland Lawyer Robin Picker, who advertises for clients among drunken drivers (despite the fact that his sister was killed...
...accurate." That kind of advice infuriates the anti-drunken-driving activists. "Drunk driving is a multimillion-dollar business for lawyers," says an angry Doris Aiken, founder of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID). She has some advice of her own for the new legion of legal specialists. "The best thing a lawyer can do for the drunk driver," she says, "is to tell him to face the music, and not go after a big fee to get him off." - By Michael S. Serrill...