Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Texas, land of outlaws and disorder, is the place where flamboyant Criminal Lawyer Clinton Judd (Carl Betz) hangs up his shingle. Premiere...
Died. Robert King High, 43, mayor of Miami since 1957 and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Florida's governorship last year; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables. A scrappy Tennessee-born lawyer, High asserted strong leadership in what is a largely ceremonial post (an administrator runs day-to-day operations), easing racial tensions by organizing a civic panel to hear Negro job grievances and working effectively to resettle over 100,000 exiles from Castro's Cuba. Last year he defeated incumbent Governor Hayden Burns in a gloves-off primary fight, but did not have the muscle to match...
Numbing Facts. From the outset, the reader is assailed with statistics and parenthetical goodies. People who have hired lawyers usually think less well of the profession than people who have not. A juror may not take notes in most courts; he might become too influential in the jury room, and there is no way to control the accuracy of his notes. The U.S. has 300,000 lawyers-far more both proportionately and absolutely than any other country. Surprisingly, they average only $13,000 a year. Contrary to the big-city lawyer image, almost 50% of U.S. lawyers practice in cities...
Increased rights for defendants, he observes, are having more than "a -few unforeseen effects. For one, "restrictions on the evidence available agafnst the guilty make the guilty-and the innocent look more alike." Today a guilty man is often convicted only because he hires a bad lawyer who cannot keep pace with liberalizing Supreme Court decisions that could well spring his client...
...Association's matrimonial-law committee, does not think that the new statute will affect Mexican divorces. "Juarez has no domicile requirement," he explains. "So the section is actually irrelevant." It will not even have any force against quickie-divorce states like Nevada, contends Mrs. Stanley Kooper, another lawyer. "The U.S. Constitution says you have to give full faith and credit to other states," she points out. "That goes for any law, including divorce laws...