Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASTING DEPARTMENT was run by "a lawyer who, like the Colonel, had been in drama at college." Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant." The main problem, the Colonel explained, was keeping jurors from discovering "true character" in the courtroom corridors "when the actor gets off the witness stand...
...airy decor of the law office cried welcome to the shyest member of the accident-prone public, recalls Oklahoma City Lawyer Byrne A. Bow man. "An older woman greeted me with all the kindliness and warmth of an Irish policeman's mother." On the walls were about 60 framed photographs of checks for large amounts. They represented awards in damage suits and clearly implied that "there is nothing like money." On the waiting-room table was "a poop-sheet of the trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts...
...send legal missionaries into low-income areas to educate the poor in how to assert their rights. In New Haven last year, for example, the Ford Foundation financed the prototype New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc. Traditionalists raised a cry of "socialized law," warning, in the words of one lawyer, that "you cheapen the legal profession by putting it in a storefront and soliciting business." The county bar association voted its disapproval. But the state bar approved, and last May 1 (Law Day), the association opened the first of two neighborhood offices, with then Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg...
...Haven association pays Lawyer Charles D. Gill, 27, a salary of $8,000 a year to run his office in a onetime bookie joint next to a pool hall. His clients, mostly Negroes and Puerto Ricans, are carefully screened by 20 Yale law students to determine financial eligibility. The cutoff point: $50 net weekly income per couple, plus $10 per dependent...
...this guarded memoir, dapper, frosty old Lawyer Dean Acheson recalls the great ones he has known and paints in muted, modest tones his career until the time he joined the State Department in 1941. He recalls a comfortably idyllic New England boyhood (his English-born father was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut), his years as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, his practice with a Washington law firm. It is all consistently respectable and, alas, consistently unrevealing -except for one rewarding chapter on Under Secretary of the Treasury Acheson's squabble with F.D.R. The President's freewheeling...