Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowenstein, a New York lawyer and civil rights organizer and one of the initiators of the movement, will help set up the proposed Harvard branch. At tonight's meeting he will explain the nature of the group and list its activities...
Unless their lawyer can locate Uchenna C. Nwoosa '64 and Olufemi Okorammu '63, proceedings in the Third United States District Court will not continue. The restaurant chain will in effect be cleared of the $20,000 suit which the Nigerians brought against it last summer...
...front line of Philadelphia justice is manned by 28 magistrates, who handle traffic violators, hear civil cases involving $100 or less, summarily try minor criminals, and make the key decision on whether to hold suspects in serious crimes. Despite these responsibilities, only one magistrate is a lawyer, only nine are high school graduates, four never went beyond grade school, and one dropped out in sixth grade. Almost uniquely among modern U.S. cities, Philadelphia retains the magistrate's job as a payoff for ward politicians-and though the post pays only $12,500 a year, such are the hidden benefits...
...filing "astronomical" claims, says the institute, the artful advocate earns pretrial newspaper publicity that gets prospective jurors psychologically prepared for huge verdicts. During the trial, the lawyer keeps repeating the "price," sometimes leaves it on a blackboard as a means of subliminal advertising. To woo jurors, the lawyer may suddenly decrease the price to show "fairness." In an equally dramatic maneuver, he may increase it to suggest that the plaintiff underestimated. Then, as Cleveland's Jury Verdict Research Inc. puts it: "The higher the amount of suit, the higher the point at which the jury begins its deliberations...
...probably imminent. Since 1963 he had been less and less able to exercise command; control of Field Enterprises, Inc., passed into the hands of the three other trustees who direct the corporation that was set up in 1952 by Marshall Field III. They are George B. Young, a lawyer who is also corporation president; Edward I. Farley, who is senior vice president; and Howard Seitz, who has been legal counselor to the Field family for more than 20 years...