Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bostonians never got around to naming anything much after Curley except a recreation building at a city hospital, an elementary school and a public bath. Then Boston planners learned that the city was about to receive some special building funds. The bequest came from an upper-crust Yankee lawyer named Edward Ingersoll Browne, who left part of his trust to the city of Boston "for the adornment and benefit of said city by the erection of statues, monuments, fountains for men and beasts and for the adornment of its streets, ways, squares and parks." James Michael Curley's commemorative...
...subscribers (at $48 a year) and is shooting for 100.000. N.L.J. 's Page One is given over to readable, anecdotal stories of broad interest (a profile of Paper Chase Author John J. Osborn Jr.. an examination of nepotism in small law firms, a report on the lawyer boom in Atlantic City). Inside are more dryly technical columns on such subjects as taxation and computer use. "We are a balanced paper." says Finkelstein. "We cover both law and lawyers...
...Washington, launched by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, the publishing conglomerate, is the oldest (eight months) and most specialized. The weekly drops names aplenty in a gossipy column called Inadmissible, but its first concern is keeping tabs on the capital's regulatory maze and the revolving door that spins lawyers between the public and private sectors. "We like to think we are helping lawyers in their work," says Managing Editor David Beckwith, 36, a lawyer and former TIME law writer. "The other publications are into national trends and lighter stuff." Legal Times 'circulation is small (currently...
...three publications want lawyers who can write and reporters who can tell an assault from a battery. "Most people who can do both prefer to work as lawyers because of the money and the status," admits Beckwith. "For some reason, a lawyer working as a journalist is comparable to a doctor driving a garbage truck...
...best tradition of damnum absque injuria, American Lawyer's first issue twits the National Law Journal for omitting Harcourt Brace's legal seminars from its calendar of events, and Legal Times' Feb. 5 issue faults Takeover Specialist Joseph Flom, who is chairman of the Journal's board of editors, for collecting retainers "for doing nothing." Says former Federal Trade Commission Executive Director Basil Mezines, a Washington lawyer who reads them: "I just love these gossip sheets−as long as they don't write about...