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NONFICTION: Andropov. Zhores A. Medvedev •The Book of America, Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey Lost in the Cosmos. Walker Percy Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Philip Kolb, editor •The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
Marilyn K. Kolb, an attorney for the First National Bank of Boston, adds that in-house counsel also tend to prevent legal problems, since company employees feel more comfortable asking them questions about potential difficulties. "It's a little less intimidating to call a lawyer who works two floors below you," she says. The First National Bank, which uses Ropes and Gray as one of several outside firms has expanded its legal staff from about eight attorneys five years ago to 37 today, Kolb says...
...surprising advocate of large in-house legal operations is Burr, who earns his living representing corporate clients. He not only favors a strong internal legal office at Harvard but says he had recommended that his clients do the same. Burr agrees with Kolb's claim that inside counsel often "solve problems before they get big." In his experience, he says, in-house legal offices have generally only proved inefficient when poor lawyers have run them...
Speaking of the past recaptured, I am delighted to report that a selection of my letters is being published, edited by Philip Kolb, an American professor, with an introduction by J.M. Cocking, a British don. He writes, "The most exciting references to Proust's developing sense of vocation come in letters later than those included here." His statement is, at the very least, open to question. On the subject of the Dreyfus case, for example, I am for the innocent captain and against the corrupt military men who accuse him of treason. These Dreyfusard letters foreshadow my special pleading...
Edited by Philip Kolb Translated by Ralph Manheim Doubleday; 376 pages...