Word: lawyer
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Hospital outside of Washington, D.C. hired an attorney to file a malpractice suit against the hospital. Mistakenly believing he had three years to file instead of six months as prescribed by local law, the lawyer delayed too long and thus booted the case. The client sued his attorney for negligence and won $100,000 in damages...
Damn Fool. One of the early big-money cases of legal malpractice was the one that drew Lawyer Freidberg into the field. In 1967 Rosemary Smith, a Sacramento housewife, sued to divorce her husband, a retired general in the state National Guard. Her lawyer advised her that she had no claim to a share of her husband's pension. Then after the settlement she learned that such benefits are indeed considered community property in California. Mrs. Smith decided to sue her counsel. Three lawyers declined to take the case; Freidberg accepted it, took the attorney to court and eventually...
Risher Jr., who had remarried. The father then went to court to gain custody of Jimmy's nine-year-old brother Richard. Risher's lawyer implored the jury not to make the youngster "a guinea pig in someone else's social experiment...
...groups of Inuit Eskimos, who inhabit the vast subarctic regions of northern Quebec -numbered about 10,000. When word of the James Bay Project filtered along the trap lines and river banks, the Cree sent a delegation to Montreal to protest. They gathered in an overheated courtroom with a lawyer named O'Reilly to argue that damming the seven great rivers of their "garden" would not only cut off their livelihood but destroy their culture...
...fellow member Cyrus R. Vance to succeed Henry A. Kissinger '50 as Secretary of State. Vance was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert S. McNamara and defended the escalation of bombing in Vietnam. Vance, in turn, has appointed three other commission member as his chief deputies--Cooper, corporate lawyer Warren Christopher, and Lucy Wilson Benson, former president of the League of Women Voters and a director of the military-research-oriented Mitre Corporation, which does military research and development...