Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those familiar with his work in the Eighth Circuit agree. One liberal St. Louis lawyer claims that Webster tends to uphold the rights of police more readily than those of defendants, but concedes that he is a "better than average" judge. Other civil rights advocates describe him as fair, and conservatives are pleased by the fact that he has let a number of criminal convictions stand despite alleged minor mistakes in trials...
...Though not always a guarantee of success: the ill-fated Corvair, which a then little-known lawyer named Ralph Nader said was unsafe, also won the magazine's accolade...
...order. Criminal fraud was never an issue during that period. However, some critics maintain that the CFTC withheld evidence that hampered state investigations. At week's end the only response from embarrassed CFTC officials was that they were not changing operational methods. As for the elusive Abrahams: Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey said that he would appear to answer the charges against...
...three answers: football, baseball or basketball. In each case he would be wrong. The true national sport is the law, and the contest Americans love best is the one in the courtroom, where lives are at stake and vast sums can be won or lost on a lawyer's forward motion...
...Howard Cosell of the legal game is Louis Nizer, 75, a distinguished New York lawyer whose reportage can make the driest case read like The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Two previous books based on his own courtroom experiences, My Life in Court and The Jury Returns, were longtime bestsellers. Nizer represented Journalist Quentin Reynolds in a successful libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, and the account was exciting enough to be made into a Broadway play and a TV drama. The present volume suffers greatly by comparison. Part autobiography, part a philosophical guide to the law, it is mostly leftovers...