Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approval on the evening of Jan. 3, 1973, either himself or through an associate, received the money in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 1973. The timing is crucial. In late 1972, Watergate Burglar Howard Hunt was a loose cannon in the cover-up scheme, demanding through his lawyer, William Bittman, to be paid for his continued silence. The lawyer met with Colson on Jan. 3. Colson later told Dean: "Bittman came at me like a train...
While more than 1,000 fire fighters battled the holocaust, some people tried desperately to save their houses on their own. Said Lawyer Ron Cook: "I got on the roof and started hosing it down. We stuck it out until the heat got so bad we couldn't stand it. Then we left with the dog, cat, our daughter and one bag of dirty laundry." By next morning, all that remained of Cook's $100,000 house was a crumbling stone fireplace and a flattened metal garage door...
Much of the criticism centers on the bar's bible for self-regulation, the Code of Professional Responsibility. In defining a lawyer's duty to his client and the law, the code manages to be vague, rigid, complex and contradictory-all at the same time. "So long as its practitioners are guided by these principles," the code proclaims, "the law will continue to be a noble profession." But Illinois Law Professor Thomas D. Morgan, writing in the Harvard Law Review, found that virtually every section of the code serves lawyers first, protecting them from public criticism and increasing...
...conservative element of the bar remains hardy. Trial lawyers are once more mounting a massive lobbying effort against a federal no-fault auto-insurance bill, and delegates at the Chicago meeting are expected to delay again establishment of guidelines for lawyer specialization. New standards permitting lawyer advertising will be approved, but only under U.S. Supreme Court compulsion. The pervasive attitude is aptly summed up in a resolution on leadership continuity, to be submitted for approval by the A.B.A. House of Delegates, which concludes: "Our proposal will benefit the American Bar Association and therefore the public...
...rise?in just ten years ?from an author of children's texts to a biology guru at age 34. The son of a Foreign Service officer, Trivers entered Harvard on a scholarship in 1961 to study math and prepare for a career as a civil rights lawyer. He was a bright, moody, private person who turned up at all the civil rights demonstrations and student protests. But his marks were so mediocre ("I was more interested in chasing women and the real world than in math") that his Harvard scholarship was canceled and he was turned down after graduation...