Word: lawyer
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...being issued despite state "shield" laws that are supposed to protect reporters from such depredations. "There are so many confidentiality cases pending now that we just can't keep track of them all," says Jack Landau, the committee's director. Adds Don H. Pace, an Ohio lawyer with a number of newspaper clients: "It's as if somebody suggested this approach at a meeting of prosecutors. There's been a flood...
...None of us have ever talked about going to Lynn," Holly R. Skolnick, a second year law student and member of the Harvard Lawyer's Guild, one of the sponsoring groups, said yesterday...
Four Harvard groups are among those co-sponsoring the demonstration. They are the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), the Harvard Lawyer's Guild and the Friends of the United Farm Workers...
Arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court may be the stuff of lawyers' dreams, a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But for a gentle-looking black lawyer named Wade H. McCree Jr. once a month is more like it. Dressed in striped trousers and traditional morning coat, McCree, 58, appears before the black-robed Justices as the lawyer for the U.S. Government. As Solicitor General, he is responsible for arguing and briefing the Government's position before the Supreme Court. He also decides what cases lost by the Government in lower court will be appealed...
...McCree, Bakke posed a particularly hard dilemma. Sympathetic to the civil rights movement-as a federal judge, he ruled frequently in favor of busing to desegregate schools-he is also known for lawyerly caution and balance. Comments one legal scholar: "He thinks like a lawyer, not a civil rights activist." Bakke's fallout will create further dilemmas. The Supreme Court has agreed to review a federal district court order forcing...