Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership's Justice for Cyprus Committee and several times with anti-Turkish-aid Congressmen. He has refused to budge in advocating aid to Turkey and has criticized the opposition as misguided and not in the best interests of the U.S. Kissinger also has found one Greek American, Rochester lawyer Dennis Livadas, who has agreed to try to organize a minority lobby within the U.S. Greek community to support the Administration...
...going bust booming more than it is in that erstwhile capital of easy living, Los Angeles. Personal bankruptcies rose by more than 18% in the L.A. area last year, and they are already up another 48% in 1975. So it is no real surprise that the busiest bankruptcy lawyer in the nation is headquartered in Los Angeles. He is Hugh Slate, 58, of Slate & Leoni, which handles one in about every four bankruptcy cases filed in the Los Angeles area (a total of 11,451 last year). Slate & Leoni handles five times as many such cases as any other...
...example: a man about to go bankrupt owns a car worth $800. Because its value exceeds the allowable exemption, the car would normally be seized. A clever bankruptcy lawyer could avoid that by arranging for his client to borrow $800 from a finance company, using the car as collateral. If this is done, the car has no value except to the holder of the mortgage-i.e., the finance company-so it will not be taken away. To protect the borrowed $800, the client then deposits it in an S and L account, which is exempt from seizure. After being...
...Supreme Court puffed to the close of its term last week, legal observers noted that one of the longest regular sessions in history had also been one of the dullest. On the final day, for instance, the Justices ruled that defendants have the right to represent themselves without a lawyer if they wish and that border-patrol officers may not randomly stop cars away from border checkpoints to search for illegal aliens. If such cases did not add up to a banner year of decision making, court watchers were nonetheless fascinated by a potentially important change within the court...
...Death is Allen's stab at intellectual pretension. He teases love and death, duels and Dostoevsky, wars and warmongers. The movie opens with Boris in prison awaiting execution ("I go at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. I was supposed to go at 5 but I have a smart lawyer.") The plot itself is only quaintly wacky. A series of mishaps culminates in an assasination attempt on Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines...