Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take Nixon's case? For fame, perhaps, but not for money (St. Clair gave up a practice reportedly worth $300,000 a year to become Nixon's lawyer for an annual salary of $42,500.) Also, St. Clair says he believes in making his counsel available to whomever most needs it. On that principle, he helped Joseph N. Welch battle Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954; he helped the Boston School Department fight enforced racial balance; he argued against film censorship. Rev. William Sloane Coffin, whom St. Clair defended against charges of conspiracy to violate...
...Your office, when you took the job, was a graveyard for lawyers. You were stepping into a mess that one lawyer after another hadn't been able to cope with. Were you at all worried about what it would to your reputation...
...wasn't. I don't know that the description is accurate, either. But I intended to, and hope to be able to perform adequately as a lawyer, and as such I don't anticipate there will be anything derogatory to my personal reputation...
...have the highest respect for his ability as a lawyer," Dershowtiz says, but he adds a qualification: "If his client is innocent, he's doing a terrible...
...Your colleague at the Law School. Professor Dershowitz, said that your defense of President Nixon was that a lawyer gives to a man he believes is guilty. He said that you were delaying and refusing to produce evidence, and that that might give the public the impression that the president had something to hide...