Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trained protectors of people in trouble, lawyers often specialize in certain kinds of clients, ranging from injured motorists to businessmen fending off regulatory agencies. Now the law has a new specialist: the lawyer whose role is to prevent young men from being drafted unfairly. Most of the draft lawyers are young men in big cities who oppose the Viet Nam war and work for modest fees-though some charge as much as $3,000 for a case that goes to court. All disclaim any intention of counseling their clients to evade the draft, a federal crime that carries a five...
...Draft lawyers are quick to defend their motives. Many feel that peacetime conscription is unjust, unnecessary and unAmerican. They are convinced that draft boards are often callous, bureaucratic, discriminatory-and usually ignorant of the law. Under the circumstances, they argue, a young man is perfectly justified in hiring a lawyer to protect his rights...
Student Deferment. Detroit's James Lafferty, 31, claims that any good lawyer can block a client's induction for at least two years. His firm of Lafferty, Reosti, Jabara, Papakhian, James & Stickgold has already handled 700 draft cases, although it is less than a year old. Milwaukee Draft Lawyer Harry Peck, 34, says: "A person who follows my advice and works hard on developing his case is probably going to stay out of the Army." Los Angeles Attorney William Smith, 36, who is an ex-Air Force captain, claims that if a boy and his parents can afford...
...most questionable features of the Selective Service rules is that they do not permit a man to have a lawyer when he comes before either his draft board or an appeals board. As a result, most lawyers advise their clients to bring a witness to take notes on everything that is said (draft boards do not always keep adequate written records of such appearances). Those claiming conscientious-objector status are urged to question board members aggressively, in the hope that they will reveal for the record a lack of understanding of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, the U.S. Supreme...
...client's case in court, a lawyer usually has to find a draft-board error either in procedure or in interpretation of the law. In many instances, that search is not difficult. Some men have been drafted at a meeting of only two out of five members of a board; yet the law requires that no fewer than three be present. A San Francisco lawyer, Joel Shawn, 33, recently persuaded a federal judge to rule for his client because a majority of the draft-board members lived outside the district, a violation of the Selective Service rule that...