Word: lawyering
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...breaks off too. “I was going to say… but it’s changing back soon.”“Back?”“Yeah, I meet with the divorce lawyer on Tuesday morning.”“Oh, wow, I’m sorry, I had no idea.”“Yeah it’s okay. Andrew doesn’t talk about it.”“Yeah.”I’m about to ask some drunk...
More seriously, the unsolved murders of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova as well as the recent shootings of Ruslan and Sulim Yamadayev and Umar Israilov - enemies of Kremlin-supported Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov - and the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 point to a rule of lawlessness rather than the growing influence of a new code of professional behavior...
Either way, Lugo's lawyer, Marcos Farina, tells TIME the President has now agreed to take a quarter of the roughly $30,000 government salary he already donates to an indigenous charity and redirect it to child support for Guillermo. (He also consented to the boy using the surname Lugo on his birth certificate.) Carrillo's lawyers have confirmed that she signed off on that arrangement and say they have dropped the suit. They also deny Farina's accusation that they tried to blackmail Lugo for $1 million before filing last week's paternity suit, saying the attorney...
...Catholic Church in Paraguay, if not the Vatican, also stands to suffer scrutiny as a result of the paternity episode - especially if the claim that the sexual relationship between Lugo and Carrillo began when she was a minor is true, something the President and his lawyer adamantly deny. It's one thing for a celibate parish priest to father children and try to keep it under wraps; but when it involves a bishop, it casts a spotlight on the church hierarchy. Although the Vatican had accepted Lugo's resignation as bishop, it refused to recognize his exit from the priesthood...
...unexpected twist, Stafford Smith now faces possible imprisonment himself. The British lawyer has been summoned with his Reprieve colleague Ahmed Ghappour to appear before the Columbia District Court on May 11, to answer a complaint of "unprofessional conduct" lodged by the Pentagon's Privilege Review Team (PRT). If found guilty in what amounts to a contempt charge, Stafford Smith and Ghappour face up to six months in prison...