Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to take a year or two off to work. I'm thinking of teaching because I love children. And then I was thinking about a more traditional Harvard career, like consulting. My real dream is to become an entertainment lawyer. But once I get married and have children, I want to stay home with my kids. There's no job that's as important as raising your own children. I love children so much....That would be my dream if my husband would tell me I could stay home with my kids. Harvard students don't understand that mentality...
Edward F. Meinert, who pled guilty in October to one count of theft and one count of fraud, had been scheduled for sentencing yesterday, but his lawyer, Joseph Jorgens, asked a federal judge to postpone the hearing...
...meet with the parties together and separately to hunt for common ground. (One question: Will Posner and Bill Gates be sitting down for a chat?) Count on the parties to be closemouthed throughout the negotiations. "We're not even going to talk about the food we ate," Justice Department lawyer David Boies said after the first day's meeting. If talks fail, it's back to court in late February for the next phase: arguments over Judge Jackson's conclusions of law, a search for remedies and, quite likely, years of appeals...
...list of rules (dubbed "the Emperor's 10 Commandments"), including instructions to refrain from looking Stallone in the eye, to vanish immediately when he entered a room and never to speak to his mother. They say their failure to adhere to these rules caused their termination. Stallone's lawyer called the suit "purely fictional," and the couple has filed a countersuit for slander against two of the staff members...
...pirated from the church's Handbook of Instructions. The judge, whose injunction will stand until the case is tried or settled, said it is likely the couple engaged in "contributory copyright infringement" by linking to a site they knew, or should have known, contained the unauthorized copies. The Tanners' lawyer, on the other hand, argued that since the couple were acting strictly as intermediaries - an anonymous source pointed them toward the text - they were not guilty of direct copyright infringement...