Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court in recent years. "They are recognizing the laws as they originally were intended to be," he explained. Now Junior will be able to make a few decisions of his own. California's outgoing Governor Pat Brown, an old family friend, has named Earl, a lawyer and registered Democrat, as a Sacramento municipal-court judge...
...brash, bright F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey is the hottest criminal lawyer in the U.S. Last month he got a Cleveland jury to acquit Dr. Sam Sheppard of killing his wife; this week comes the sex-tinged murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey; after that, the Boston Strangler. Only six years out of law school, Bailey already compares himself to "Clarence" (meaning Darrow), though his monumental self-assurance might not yet convince William Jennings (meaning Bryan...
...suggestion -- to change "the atmosphere and value system" at the Law School -- suggests that "grades should not be the sole determinant of membership in the honoraries." This, they feel, would reduce the importance of the exams and give students a way to be rewarded for abilities necessary in a lawyer, but not tested by the exams...
...HUAC hearings, fear dominated, but this time it was on the other side. Faced with a rational, legal challenge to their existence," Kinoy continued, "HUAC had no other response except violence -- and that they aimed at a lawyer...
...decide if we were going to use the traditional civil liberties lawyer tactic of playing the defense, or try something more positive," Kinoy said...