Word: lawyering
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...Wu’s next hearing is currently scheduled for March 31. If he pleads not guilty, the case will go to trial where he could face a maximum sentence of two years in prison, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Wu’s lawyer Randolph Gioia, however, remains optimistic about his client’s future. “He just wants to put this behind him and continue his life at Harvard,” Gioia said. Secretary to the Administrative Board Jay L. Ellison declined to comment. —Staff writer...
...that caused one man to guffaw. “It is true,” reassured Reiss. “I love crowds that laugh at facts.” Reiss said if comedy writing fell through, he would be a “funny lawyer—the lawyer who gets all the laughs in court and then his client goes to the gas chamber for jaywalking.” Reiss said his show has “universal themes” that garner it a wide audience, though he noted that, despite its popularity, The Simpsons...
...commando may have finally met his match. A day after Musharraf's party crashed to a humiliating defeat in parliamentary elections widely seen as a referendum on the President's rule, calls for him to step down are becoming louder and more numerous by the hour. Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer and opposition leader who has spent the past three months under house arrest following Musharraf's crackdown on the judiciary, told the French News Agency that the President is "the most hated man in the country and he must resign...
...story, down the stairs and into one of the bedrooms, where they tapped the leg of a figure lying on a bed. Their prize gave a piercing girlish scream. It was not the ruthless guerrilla fighter they were hoping for, but the teenage daughter of an East Timorese legislator, lawyer Vitor Dos Santos...
...force the future of the Court to the front of voters’ minds. And if sales figures are any indication, he is succeeding. As of our interview, the book had been out for less than three months and was already in its tenth printing. But as a lawyer and as a journalist, he’s keeping all sides of the story in mind.“The polling data suggests that the strong partisans care deeply about the Court. But the vast middle of the electorate, which decides the outcome of elections, doesn’t focus...