Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Billing. Dodd and his lawyer, New Yorker John F. Sonnett, aimed their bitterest attacks at the Senator's onetime bookkeeper, Michael V. O'Hare, one of the four who had scoured the files. O'Hare swore that on five occasions, acting under the Senator's instructions, he had "double billed" the cost of airline tickets, getting reimbursement both from the Senate and from the organization that had invited Dodd to appear. He also told of allowing Dodd to "borrow" $6,000 from one of the Senator's testimonial ac counts to clear up back...
...they are popping up dirtier than ever-at least in the eyes of the Manhattan district attorney's office, which is now prosecuting a Greenwich Village retailer for selling "obscene" buttons. The offenders ranged from "Pornography Is Fun" to pornography unprintable. But for Civil Liberties Un ion Lawyer Robert Polstein, banning buttons is restricting of expression. "What young people see clean," he argues, "older persons see dirty...
...want to divide Christianity; for at least half of his life he was an unquestioningly loyal, devout Catholic, remarkable for his devotion in an age better known by its sinners than its saints. Born in 1483, the son of a Saxon miner, Luther had every intention of becoming a lawyer until, one day in 1505, he was caught in a sudden storm while walking toward the village of Stotternheim. A bolt of lightning knocked him to the ground, and Luther, terrified, called out to the church's patroness of miners: "St. Anne, help me! I will become a monk...
Another area of friction has been the "family lawyer" plan proposed by the CLAO last fall. They hoped that clergymen and social workers would help them select families whose credit, housing, or social status indicated a possible legal crisis in the near future. A CLAO staff assistant would then be assigned to the family to help it avoid the potential crisis...
This plan has worked well in several cases, but, according to Ferren, it appears that the personal qualities of a given lawyer, not necessarily his organizational skills, determine the outcome. CLAO continues to get references from most local social and welfare agencies...