Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee derived its name from its renowned chairman, Judge Henry Friendly. In addition to the chairman, there were four other members, all Overseers, and a secretary who was a young Boston lawyer and recent Harvard graduate...
...lawyer defending the "Chicago Eight" last night advised law students not to enter large corporate firms but instead to form "law communes" and "serve the people...
Speaking at the Harvard Law School Forum on "The Radical Lawyer in America," William M. Kunstler, a noted civil rights attorney, sought a redefinition of the lawyer's role...
...lawyer should not be a high priest of society but more of a worker-lawyer who works within the court to advance the aspirations of the people of whom he is a part," Kunstler said...
Generally, however, the book lacks the searching view that would have deepened our understanding of the trial's meaning. Moderately contemptuous of the law, the author is also, unfortunately, only moderately knowledgeable about it. She has obviously relied on the expertise of her lawyer husband, but she seems only to have asked him specific questions. There is no deep exploration of the law's underlying rationale. Kittenish phrases crop up-"for some unfathomable reason known only to lawyers and judges"-which would be acceptable enough if the fathoms of the law were not clearly the business...