Word: lawyering
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...opposite of the most recent occupant of the office. In 1701, in seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this rejection that he combined with like-minded dissidents to found a college in the Connecticut colony which would eventually settle at New Haven. The last clerical president, the Reverend Thomas Hill, Class...
...work or in jail, there are some, even here, who long for a charismatic figure on a white horse who can get things done. Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, president from 1829 to 1845, was just such a person. He was not an academic, but a lawyer, and more importantly, Mayor of Boston, famous for clearing out the brothels on Beacon Hill and renewing the city’s commercial center with what we now know as Quincy Market. Quincy succeeded the beloved but increasingly inept John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, and Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, notes...
...collective bargaining agreement provides for a uniform contract that sets employment terms for all players. A player and team cannot change it except to increase the minimum salary or to add "special covenants that contain an actual or potential benefit to the player," explains Clark Griffith, a lawyer and sports law professor in Minneapolis, Minn. Bonds would obviously not benefit from either an out-clause for indictments or a waiver of the right to challenge a Giants decision, so both provisions would seem unenforceable...
...EISENBERG, Oregon lawyer who filed a suit challenging the National Security Administration's domestic surveillance program, after Justice Department lawyers used tactics like seeking to delete files from computers on which plaintiffs' lawyers prepared their case...
...Pickton's lawyer Peter Ritchie says his client is innocent, and that he will refute the prosecution's evidence. Pickton's own voice is directly heard only in a videotaped police interrogation after his arrest and the first two charges were brought in February 2002. Played to the jury, the tape shows him mumbling and at times appearing barely cognizant of events. "I'm just a pig farmer," Pickton tells police. "I'm a working guy, that's all I am." When told he was charged with two murders and was being investigated in the disappearances of 50 more women...