Word: lawyering
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...game, as you'll see. I am a prisoner of the Iraqi government, but that government was appointed by the Americans." SADDAM HUSSEIN, former Iraqi dictator, complaining to a judge about lack of access to his lawyer and other restrictions...
...family, talked of his heart, which is Bush code for "he's my kind of guy, so I don't need to get into specifics." To focus more on where the man comes from than on anything he has argued in 24 years as a government and corporate lawyer is not just a political smoke screen. It is a reminder, first, that it is a lawyer's art to offer arguments detached from beliefs; and second, that whatever issues the court faces, a Justice likely to serve for 25 years is bound to travel down legal roads that have...
...encountered his first setback when the bid died in the Senate with Bill Clinton's victory. Then George W. Bush tried in 2001 and finally succeeded in 2003. In the meantime, Roberts spent most of the '90s biding his time, getting rich as a corporate lawyer at Hogan & Hartson, one of Washington's largest firms, where he quickly emerged as the supreme commander of Supreme Court battles. Between his government and corporate jobs, he argued 39 cases before the high court and won 25 of them. Colleagues recall his racing around the law firm with a white legal pad, jotting...
Jane Roberts is a lawyer who specialized in satellite-technology law and now oversees attorney training at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, an international firm. Married in their early 40s, the couple struggled to have children and was finally able to adopt John (Jack) and Josephine, who were born 4½ months apart. "As frequently happens when you go through the adoption process, some of the efforts weren't successful, and it continued for a time," says Jane's law partner and friend Jack McKay. "But when the opportunity came along to have not just one but two children, they took both...
...rebalance? Six of the eight current Justices plus O'Connor were appointed by Republican Presidents, yet that court has restricted use of the death penalty and affirmed-- while narrowing--abortion rights, church-state separation and affirmative action. "O'Connor was accurately described as mainstream conservative in 1981," says a lawyer who has known Roberts for 20 years. "John is reasonably described as mainstream conservative today. That's not because they are the same. It's because mainstream conservatives are a little more conservative today than they were then...