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Henry Stimson knew a thing or two about excellence. A graduate of Andover and Yale, he was a famed lawyer, the governor general of the Philippines, secretary of war and secretary of state, and was, by any standard, among the cream of political life in the United States. Yet four years before his death in 1950, he wrote a letter to James B. Conant ’14 that suggested something less than satisfaction...
...lawyer who issued a warrant for the arrest of a former Harvard affiliate addressed the need for human rights law reform yesterday in a speech titled “Harvard—Haven for War Criminals?” London attorney Daniel Machover described his role in issuing a British warrant for the arrest of Israeli Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, a 2004 senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A British court later withdrew the warrant for Almog’s arrest in September 2005, the same month it was issued, on technical...
...thing they didn't do was sue, which emboldened Brown to show the letters to a lawyer. One thing led to another, and last June she found herself before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the collection agency. Her lawyer, Cary Flitter, argued that, because the agency never intended to sue, only to scare her and some 13,000 others who had received similar letters in Pennsylvania, it had engaged in a "deceptive" practice prohibited by federal law. A U.S. district court had already dismissed this argument, pointing...
...things considered, it's nice to know that debt collectors can't threaten to sue you unless they mean it. But how do you know whether they mean it? Flitter offers some tips: If the debt is under $1,000, the letter is from an out-of-state lawyer, or the debt is too old (more than four years, in most states), then they're probably bluffing...
Chimaobi O. Amutah ’07 came to Harvard to get rich. His plan was to go to law school and live it up as an entertainment lawyer. Three years later, Amutah laughs when thinks of his past plans. Today, his life goal is "to raise consciousness that inspires positive action to end systems of oppression...