Word: lawyer
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Clinton said yesterday his lawyer had advised him not to comment on the case before a hearing is held. "I've had trouble with Cole before," he said...
...straining bicyclist named Frank Tuerkheimer, 35, heading in the same direction. After putting in a morning's work in his spacious suite of Washington offices, Williams may lunch at the Sans Souci. Tuerkheimer brown-bags it in his cramped, spartan office, where he works as a Government lawyer...
...opens this week in Washington. Williams is defending Connally, three times the Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Richard M. Nixon, against charges that he accepted a $10,000 bribe in return for using his influence to secure a 1971 hike in milk-price supports. The lawyer heading the Government's three-man team of prosecutors is Cyclist Tuerkheimer. Outwardly, the case seems to be a classic example of a storied defense attorney pitted against an obscure Government lawyer. Occasionally, say legal experts, such mismatches have helped give criminal lawyers inflated reputations. This time things...
What comes next may be more than skills or resources. Williams argues that an attorney's role in a trial is subject to firm limits. "Ability has some effect on the outcome," he says. But Williams, who is also president of the Washington Redskins, adds: "A lawyer is somewhat like a football coach - circumscribed by the material he has to work with." If so, then the deeds of John Connally, not Williams or Tuerkheimer, will decide the outcome...
These efforts might be better known if the IRS chief had taken a publicity-oriented approach to his job. Instead, the 53-year-old Alexander - a normally feisty James Cagney look-alike and former estate and gift-tax lawyer from Cincinnati - has immersed himself in technical details of tax administration during twelve-hour working days. Says he: "No amount of soft soap by me or anyone else will persuade the people we are doing a good job. The payoff is what...