Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neustadt, who served as an advisor to President Kennedy, issued the statement with David Ginsberg, a Washington lawyer who was also a member of the board. Senator Wayne Morse (D.Ore.), who chaired the investigation, made a similar plea Friday...
...time the $3.4 billion foreign aid program for 1967 should be well on its way to enactment-he will have the satisfaction of leaving a hand-picked successor in his place: William S. Gaud Jr., 58, who has been AID'S deputy administrator since 1964. A Yale-educated lawyer, Gaud (pronounced Gowd) began his public service as assistant corporation counsel for New York City under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who thought Gaud was qualified to become mayor himself some day. An army colonel in charge of lend-lease operations for the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, Gaud...
Dacey's book appalls lawyers-and not just because the author is a nonlawyer whose main business is selling mutual funds. The charge is that Dacey's do-it-yourself forms can hardly be relied on amid the wildly disparate laws of all 50 states. Last week the American Bar Association denounced the book, warned that using the forms without the help of a local lawyer is an invitation to disaster-to say nothing of almost inevitable probate...
...many built-in problems that they obviously require skilled help as well as constant review in the light of changing assets and laws. Whatever the pros and cons of revocable living trusts, one thing is clear: don't use a do-it-yourself book-get a first-rate lawyer...
...famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a lawyer meant a "clear danger of convicting the innocent." The same went for a case where a jury may have relied on an involuntary confession to convict (Jackson v. Denno). "Confessions," said Warren, "are likely to be highly persuasive with a jury, and if coerced, they may well be untrustworthy by their very...