Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former labor lawyer and mediator, Fleming was for five years director of the University of Illinois' Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. He was appointed chancellor of Wisconsin in 1964. The Michigan selectors were impressed by his skill in dealing with the Wisconsin legislature, and by his shrewd handling of student demonstrations, combining firmness with give-and-take. After having been blockaded in his office by one group of antiwar protesters last February, for example, Fleming turned around and put up $1,250 of his own money to bail out 19 students who had been arrested by police during...
Though no defense lawyer can eliminate all pretrial opinion, he can diminish it by asking veniremen exactly what they have read in the press-and then prod them to reconsider it entirely in terms of reasonable doubt. Even if they still show prejudice, the attorney may accept them: some people yearn to prove themselves unprejudiced. Moreover, lawyers commonly ask jurors in advance to guarantee disregard for this or that messy fact ("Will you disregard the defendant's adultery?"). Not for nothing does Percy Foreman devote as much as ten days to voir dire. "Once we chose the jury...
...question that Lawyer Percy Fore man was "in" once the jury was chosen for the murder trial of Candy Mossler and her nephew, Melvin Powers...
Readers resort to Louis Auchincloss with much the same misgivings that sensible men feel when they resort to the law. A New York lawyer as well as an author, he has the distinction of inventing fictional clients who write their own verdict of guilty-"guilty with an explanation," as they say in day court. Moreover, their usual character witness-Auchincloss himself-is the kind who lets the cat out of the bag and the client into...
...familiar Auchincloss lawyer and stockbroker characters are joined in this collection by two ancillary types: an auctioneer who casts a cold eye on objects left by the rich dead, and "the matrons," a gilded gaggle of rich old gorgons who hold the purse strings of family fortunes like bowstrings about the necks of their grandchildren. These characters are all united by money-not the new vulgar stuff that was extruded by the bull markets of the '50s and '60s, but the old stable commodity collected in the Civil War. It is the kind of money that nourished Manhattan...