Word: lawyer
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Richard Pankhurst, whom she married in 1879, when she was 20 and he was 40, was a brilliant lawyer, selflessly dedicated to reform, who drafted pioneering legislation granting women independent control of their finances. Emmeline bore five children but lost two sons, and when Richard died suddenly in 1898, she was left to bring up her children alone, with no private means...
...arrested on a Thursday; bail was posted by Clifford Durr, the white lawyer whose wife had employed Parks as a seamstress. That evening, after talking it over with her mother and husband, Rosa Parks agreed to challenge the constitutionality of Montgomery's segregation laws. During a midnight meeting of the Women's Political Council, 35,000 handbills were mimeographed for distribution to all black schools the next morning. The message was simple...
...President Kennedy appointed Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Four years later, President Johnson named him Solicitor General--the government's top Supreme Court lawyer--and in 1967 Johnson spoke of "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place" and named Marshall to the Supreme Court...
...showed up one day...and we needed a tenor saxophonist who also played clarinet," says Leonard Garment, a Washington lawyer who used to play with and manage the band. "He seemed competent and reliable, so we hired...
Similarly, Boston lawyer and HLS graduate Harvey A. Silverglate says his impression from working with undergraduates considering lawschool is that people recognize that "it's veryvaluable to have a HLS degree...in terms of beingable to generate choices for after you graduate...