Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criminal lawyers said last night that it is impossible to observe professional strictures concerning the confidential relationship between lawyer and client without sacrificing the lawyer's responsibility to either his client or the court...
According to the American Bar Association (ABA) Code of Responsibility, Kaufamn said, a lawyer may reveal his client's intention to commit a future crime, but is not required...
...cases in which the death or serious injury of another person might be avoided by a lawyer's breach of confidentiality, Freedman said that lawyers should follow their conscience while risking disciplinary action from the local ABA review board...
...came as no surprise to anyone who has ever opposed him in a courtroom that F. Lee Bailey emerged as Patty Hearst's top lawyer last week, shortly after joining the defense team. One of the best, toughest and most flamboyant criminal lawyers in the nation, Bailey, at 42, is a loner, a leader who could no more be a second-stringer than Joe Namath could be a back-up quarterback...
...elite did not figure on the dedication of members of the issei (immigrant) generation to the social mobility of their offspring. Though often illiterate, they hammered home the value of education. "When I was still a kid," recalls Governor Ariyoshi, "I told my father I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'Go to it. You can have the shirt off my back.' " Working hard, living frugally, the A.J.A.s speedily swapped plantation toil for small farms, mom-and-pop shops and city jobs. By the early '30s, almost half had Hawaiian bank accounts and almost 200 were...