Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friends of Civiletti, 44, a prematurely graying father of three teenagers, do not disagree with that self-effacing assessment. It is the professionalism of the soft-spoken New York-born lawyer that his colleagues at the Justice Department most admire. He had been personally plucked out of a successful law practice in Baltimore by Georgian Charles Kirbo, President Carter's top preInauguration adviser, to head the department's criminal division. In his service there, Civiletti won praise as a "lawyers' lawyer" who believed in strong preparation for building criminal cases that would stand up in court...
Regarded in the past as a skilled trial lawyer, Civiletti holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Law School. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, where he prosecuted fraud and other cases for two years, before going into private practice. Civiletti emphasized he has no further governmental ambitions. When he completes his service as Attorney General, he intends to return to his law practice in Baltimore...
...months as chairman of the Fed, Bill Miller, 54, has been something of a maverick. He speaks freely to the press, signs most of his business letters Bill, and takes off his jacket on occasion at congressional hearings. A businessman and lawyer rather than an economist by training, he has been remarkably accurate in his economic forecasting. Known from the beginning as a determined inflation fighter, he has taken the position that the Fed should be dedicated to a long-term plan for reducing the inflation rate over the next five to seven years and should not react nervously...
Several days into the 1975 trial, the defense lawyer asked for a delay because his father had died. But Fraiman was about to leave on vacation again, as were several jurors. This time Fraiman offered to postpone his own vacation but did not order the jurors to do so. Instead, he declared a mistrial and dismissed the jury...
...answer was simple enough. Satirizing the pop politics of California's Governor Jerry Brown, Trudeau had turned his biting pen on a labor lawyer and Brown contributor, Sidney Korshak, describing him with several harsh characterizations, including "known organized crime figure." While Korshak is no stranger to criminal investigators, the newspapers felt, as the Times put it, that the cartoons were "unfair, irresponsible and unsubstantiated." Callers accused the papers of trying to protect Brown. Said the Guv: "I think it is false and libelous, but I'm flattered by the attention...