Word: lawyering
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Thompson wasn't subtle in hitting points one and two: "My story is an American story," he began. He then proceeded to chart his life from teenage father of three and minimum-wage worker to lawyer, Watergate counsel, Senator, actor and now new father of two small kids. In this, the Tennessee Senator follows a well-worn rhetorical path...
...Michael Clayton (Clooney) is a "fixer": a lawyer whose savvy and connections can get his firm's clients out of tight spots. They call him a miracle worker, but he says he's just a janitor, cleaning up other people's messes. But Clayton has no one to fix his own troubles: a heavy debt exacerbated by an addiction to gambling - and, lately, to losing. Born into a working-class Irish-American family that also weighs on him, Michael was a policeman before joining the firm. The question the film asks: Is he, at heart, a cop who collars...
...suggesting that her sister-in-law accidentally killed Madeleine, hid the body and then disposed of it. "I've never heard anything so ludicrous in my life," she told Sky News. Philomena McCann told ITV News that the Portuguese police also offered Kate McCann a plea deal through her lawyer. Justine McGuinness, who heads an organization that had been raising money to search for Madeleine, told the BBC that the Portuguese authorities had based their allegations on blood found in a car rented 25 days after the child's disappearance...
...Prosecutor Liliana Lukasiewicz told TIME that the sentence, in her view, fits the crime. "We are satisfied," she said. Bala, who has protested his innocence and who contends that the details in his book were gleaned from press reports, is planning to appeal, according to his lawyer...
...world's only recognized prisoner of war - to France would violate the terms of the Geneva Convention if Paris fails to accord him POW status. Despite assertions from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami that the French government intends to honor the Geneva Convention, Noriega's Miami-based lawyer Frank Rubino maintains that may not be the case. "The French Ambassador to Panama - Pierre-Henri Guinard - publicly stated Gen. Noriega will not be treated as a prisoner of war but as a common criminal," Rubino told U.S. Magistrate William Turnoff during an extradition hearing on August...