Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday, July 7, prominent citizens: former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford; John Gardner, ex-chairman of Common Cause; the Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of Operation PUSH; Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO; Sol Linowitz, lawyer and occasional ambassador-at large; Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley...
Bill Walsh, a lawyer for Harlow Properties, a major condominium developer, hand-delivered a letter to each of the city councilors claiming that the bill was illegal because it went beyond state enabling laws. He concluded with a warning: "It is the intention of my client to bring the necessary legal action against any councilor who votes for the legislation...
...campaign of intimidation of the part of the city's landlords and condominium developers that has now extended to the city council," Sullivan, a lawyer for the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, charged...
Many in the press and the legal profession fear the worst. "I hate this decision," said Columbia University's journalism professor emeritus Fred Friendly. New York Press Lawyer Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. called it "outrageous." Fumed Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, an expert on the Constitution: "There will be no need to gag the press if the stories can be choked off at the source." Said Allen Neuharth, chairman of the Gannett newspaper chain that brought the suit: "This decision is a signal that those judges who share the philosophy of secret trials can now run Star Chamber justice...
...this is not to claim an absolute privilege for journalists. Newsmen should not ask the same standing that a lawyer or doctor has in dealing with clients or patients; lawyers and doctors after all are licensed, which is precisely what journalists will not and must not be. Obviously the American journalist enjoys unusual latitude and he must, therefore, bear unusual responsibility. He must expect a certain rough-and-tumble in his trade, and not wrap himself in the Constitution at every setback. By no means were all recent court rulings unmitigated disasters. The court in effect allows the press...