Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kept a lawyer away from Shea on the day he signed his confession...
...million, with $60 million pouring into his Sloan Foundation, $10 million going to his alma mater, M.I.T., $10 million to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and $10 million to the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, both in Manhattan. His brothers and other relatives, said a lawyer for the estate, "were provided for earlier...
Dead Crime. Is there no law against "civic indifference"? asks Lawyer George Goldberg in the American Bar Association Journal. There is indeed, he says. It is called "misprision of felony" (from the Old French mesprendre, to mistake). Misprision is a crime of omission-a failure to act. In 1907, the Vermont Supreme Court defined it as "a criminal neglect either to prevent a felony or to bring the offender to justice after its commission." Misprision thus differs from "accessory" offenses, such as assent or assistance in a felony. Because the two are easily confused, however, misprision is almost never prosecuted...
Ironically, the election's effect has been just the opposite: the prospects for reform are greater now than at any other time during the past four years. Credit for the School Committee's recent achievements belongs primarily to its new chairman--a moderate but aggressive twenty-nine year old lawyer--Thomas S. Eisenstadt...
...divorce are not the province of the law and the courts. Domestic breakup is an emotional tragedy that should be handled by family centers, where concentration would be upon the causes of marital discord rather than the symptoms, and where the jungle atmosphere that pervades the court and the lawyer's office would be eliminated completely...