Word: kunstler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said William Kunstler, the controversial lawyer for the Chicago Seven. If anything, it seemed like a mild statement from a man whose inflammatory campus speeches across the country had provoked serious doubts about his standing as a lawyer. Now Kunstler has come under sharp criticism in a lead editorial of the American Bar Association Journal...
...significant chapters have been written by lawyers willing to take unpopular clients. To be sure, the Journal concedes, the profession has preferred wealthy and successful clients. But now that more and more lawyers are forsaking that predilection in order to defend the poor and the scorned, the Journal suggests, Kunstler's partisanship is both old-fashioned and shortsighted...
...Kunstler, who has long defended civil rights causes and left-wing activists, replied by accusing the Journal of hypocrisy. "Unfortunately, only a bare handful of American practitioners have ever undertaken to put this ideal into practice," he said. "If more members of the A.B.A. were available for such work, then perhaps I would be able to afford the time to be more catholic in my selection of clients...
...clients would be the envy of any criminal lawyer in the country. Besides Maxwell, Amsterdam represents New York Times Reporter Earl Caldwell, who is fighting a federal subpoena that demands his notes on the Black Panthers. He is also assisting in the appeals of Bobby Seale, William Kunstler and the Chicago Seven...
Leonard Weinglass, Chicago 7 defense lawyer, told a group of 150 students at the Law School last night that he, Bill Kunstler, and Abbie Hoffman will be facing new conspiracy charges for speeches made after the Chicago 7 trial...