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...says Francis Griffith, 68, a retired professor of educational administration at Long Island's Hofstra University, who has made a hobby of studying the format of Brooklynese for some four decades. Says Griffith, the holder of a doctoral degree in speech education from Columbia University: "Brooklynites have all but lost their special dialect, the badge of their tribe...
After Bauman made his threat against Dershowitz, the law professor retained Monroe H. Freedman, dean of the Hofstra Law School and an expert on legal ethics, to respresent him in Bauman's court. Freedman, Dershowitz and Sagor were present during Monday's hearing in Bauman's chambers. In the transcript, Bauman is referred to as "the court...
Dershowitz will be represented by Monroe Freedman, dean of the Hofstra Law School and a leader of the American Civil Liberties Union, when court resumes session on Monday...
...legally sound. The American Bar Association's Code of Professional Responsibility upholds the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship. Almost unanimously, A.B.A. members agree that this "sacred trust" is essential if the attorney is to represent his client properly. "The conduct of the lawyers is absolutely correct," says Hofstra University Law Dean Monroe Freedman. "If they had acted otherwise, it would be a serious violation of their professional responsibility...
...criminal investigation of others," contends Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association. The association's president-elect, James Fellers of Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic to "the torture rack and the Spanish Inquisition." Argues Law Dean Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University: "Sirica deserves to be censured for becoming the prosecutor himself." The University of Chicago's Law Professor Philip Kurland considers the harsh original sentences "a form of extortion...