Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Texas tower and shot that nice young man without even extending to him the courtesy of first informing him of his rights, such as his right to refuse to be questioned if he didn't feel like being questioned, his right to have a lawyer at his side, etc. Didn't this constitute police brutality at its worst...
...house of delegates further authorized a new A.B.A. Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, which Marden hailed as a means of encouraging public understanding that rights and duties go hand in hand. "It will seek to nurture a sense of responsibility on the part of lawyers in the recognition and enforcement of these rights and responsibilities," said Marden. "When legal rights are challenged or infringed, as Justice Jackson once observed, they are worth 'just what some lawyer makes them worth...
Cantor's fellow executors, Lawyer Morris Shilensky and Broker Charles Wohlstetter, told Cantor that he had no business accompanying the next of kin to the cemetery. Then, troubled because no price had been agreed upon with Sculptor Noguchi for his design, the executors demanded written notice from the sisters that they would indemnify the executors should the courts rule that the sum spent for burial was more than "a reasonable amount...
...given no orientation in all the responsibilities that go with the job." This lament by Seattle Superior Court Judge Eugene Wright underscores the surprising fact that no U.S. law school or bar association has ever provided any training for present or future trial judges. When a lawyer is appointed or elected to the bench, he is terrifyingly on his own, and is expected to acquire the judicial craft by osmosis, or simply by virtue of his black robe...
William L. Marbury, a member of the Harvard Corporation and a Baltimore lawyer, failed Wednesday to convince the American Bar Association's leaders to censure a key provision of the Civil Rights Bill...