Word: lawyered
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Kenneth Feinberg, the Washington lawyer who had the thankless job of figuring out how to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, is now hard at work - as a "special master" appointed by the Treasury Secretary - figuring out how to compensate employees of corporations bailed out by taxpayers since last fall. The House and Senate are crafting legislation that includes "say on pay" shareholder votes on executive-comp packages and (in the House version) calls for regulators to vet incentive pay at financial firms on an ongoing basis. The Securities and Exchange Commission is for the first time attempting...
Bratton's departure comes way too soon, however, to many of the city's civil rights advocates. Connie Rice, director of the Advancement Project in Los Angeles and a prominent civil rights activist and lawyer, fears that the LAPD will revert to some of its old brutal ways without his leadership. "We need two more years of this guy. Do I think that LAPD is going to go back to how they behaved in the Gates era?," says Rice, referring to former LAPD chief Daryl Gates, who was in charge during the Rodney King fiasco. "No. Are they beyond what...
Palin, quitter Sarah • report of imminent divorce of is followed by obligatory unconvincing denial by spokeswoman for, which is followed by uncarried-out threat against blogger by lawyer for, which is followed by another perfunctory unconvincing denial...
...special local tribunal that has the confidence of the people, then the people deserve to know that there is some process to hold people accountable," Clinton said. Mincing few words, she declared, "The common parlance tragically summed up is, If you have a problem in Kenya, why hire a lawyer when you can buy a judge?" (See Obama's family tree...
...Tuesday, one of the four men arrested in Melbourne was charged with planning a terrorist attack. During the court hearing, local newspapers reported, the man remained seated throughout the proceedings, not rising for the judge or for questioning, explaining through his lawyer that he would stand only before his God. On Wednesday, Aug. 5, four more men were charged. At their hearing, one reportedly responded by saying, "You send troops to Iraq to kill innocent people ... You call me a terrorist. I never killed a person in my life. Your army kills innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel takes...