Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunlop will go to Washington D.C. Wednesday to meet with the other two members of the board: Bay Lisa Manning, dean of the Stanford University School, of Law, and J. Patterson Drew, a Washington D.C. lawyer...
While Los Angeles cannot claim to have invented the certificate of readiness, it makes unusual use of it. The court's master calendar department feeds these details into a computer along with each lawyer's schedule for the next three months, then chooses a desirable trial date which is smoothly coordinated with all other trial dates throughout the court. Trials estimated to last fewer than five hours get a date immediately. In the central court in downtown Los Angeles, civil trials of any length at all are now put on the schedule within a day after the computer...
...raised last spring by 25-year-old Leslie Cohen, a student from Canada who also edited the campus newspaper, the Reflector. After accumulating $135 worth of tickets for illegal parking, Cohen was summoned before a faculty discipline committee. Much to the professors' surprise, he showed up with a lawyer in tow and announced that he was legally protesting the fines. Since he could not appeal the committee's decision to other courts and was denied the privilege of a jury trial, Cohen argued that his constitutional rights were being violated. When the case ultimately came before a three...
...County Coroner Andrew Toman, and he started spilling all the gory details of the crime-until he saw Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed information meant to help build his case. The banner headline over Romy's story read FAMILY'S STORY OF SPECK'S LIFE; there was ample detail on Speck's marital problems and his earlier troubles with the police...
Contacted yesterday at his office, Attorney John P. White, Monosson and Saresky's lawyer, said that he had accompanied his clients to the Brookline station where they voluntarily gave themselves up, and that Saresky had listed her occupation as student. "She did not say that she went to Radcliffe," he said. "It must have been the figment of some reporter's imagination," he added...