Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporter Joe Harvey, a lawyer who covers Boston courts for the Globe, went painstakingly to work on every document dealing with Morrissey-from his birth certificate through his Kennedy jobs to his listings in the city directories -to help ascertain when he had and had not been present in Boston.* Statute books of Georgia and Massachusetts were studied to find what regulations applied to Morrissey at the time of his bar exam...
...Northern liberal lawyer in the cool 4:30 comfort of his Madison Avenue bar says, 'Why don't you stay there and fight?' Then that same lawyer will send his Southern business to a firm all of whose partners are racists, and, rationalize it by saying: 'We want a firm that will...
...century-old ritual, Attorney General Katzenbach last week formally introduced the crack lawyer whose cases may well dominate the new term's crowded Supreme Court docket. He is zesty, earthy Thurgood Marshall, 57, once the country's most successful civil rights lawyer, later a federal judge and now the 33rd U.S. Solicitor General. Looking amused at his own anachronistic costume of striped pants, black vest and swallow-tailed coat, Marshall beamed as Chief Justice Warren intoned: "The court welcomes...
...goes no farther, Marshall's position already makes him what is often called the Supreme Court's "tenth member." Since the Government is a party in more than half the court's cases, and the Solicitor General is the Government's chief appellate lawyer, the court sees, hears and heeds him more than any other man Although he is paid only $28,500 a year as the Justice Department's third high est official (behind the Attorney General and his deputy) and does not even rate a Government car, he is beyond question the nation...
...current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish her legitimacy. At the end squaw gets fortune and lawyer gets squaw. As a regional novel, Whitefish lacks flavor. As a character study it is inept. But as courtroom melodrama it makes intriguing legal legerdemain...