Word: lawyering
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...Harvard community.” Sometimes, when a rule is broken, a punishment must be given, but we view that as a learning process for the student. Attorneys should not be a part of that learning process, much in the same way you can’t hire a lawyer to complain about or negotiate for a better grade in my class. (Please don?...
...Pukanic's murder caused an outcry, not just because he was an important player but because it revealed the extent of the connection between politics, crime and corruption in the former Yugoslav republic. Less than three weeks ago, Ivana Hodak, the 22-year-old daughter of a prominent lawyer, was shot three times in the back of her head just several blocks from the site of Pukanic's death. Police are investigating whether the two assassinations may have been linked: Ms. Hodak's father, Zvonimir, had publicly accused Petrac of ordering his daughter's murder. Petrac, who is in custody...
...years in prison, a reduction granted by the abbreviated procedure after prosecutors had requested the maximum life sentence. The victim's parents, who had come from their home in Surrey, England, to follow the trial, were present at the closed-door reading of the verdict, and according to their lawyer were satisfied with the judge's decision...
...lawyer and ex-college football captain first came under fire in 2003, when two former police officers filed a civil lawsuit claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of Kilpatrick's former bodyguards. During the court proceedings, one of the officers revealed Kilpatrick's affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, a childhood friend who had assisted his successful 1996 run for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. (His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, vacated the seat to run for national office; she is now a U.S. representative and chairwoman of the Congressional Black...
...Kilpatrick, he may want to keep his lawyer on retainer. Last week, attorneys for the 14-year-old son of Tamara Greene, a 27-year-old exotic dancer who was killed in 2003, filed their witness list in a $150 million federal civil lawsuit against Kilpatrick and the city, alleging that the former mayor, his top aide and local police hindered the investigation into Greene's murder because of her rumored presence at a 2002 party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion...