Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dedicated Lawyer Sir: Your article on Pointer v. Texas [April 16] was as clear and as accurate a summary of the Supreme Court's opinion as could have been written. I remember when Orville A. Harlan was appointed to represent Pointer in his appeal. Harlan was handling a number of appeals for various indigents-a burden borne by a very small percentage of the bar in this community. After Mr. Harlan entered the Pointer case, he not only expended far more than the $100 paid him by the state, but the time devoted to briefing and arguing the case...
Russell is the farthest thing in the world from the Johnston sort of wool-hat politician. A lawyer by profession, Russell amassed a fortune estimated at $40 million in banking, auto financing and other investments, served without pay for five years as president of the University of South Carolina...
...have created their own ideology as individuals, not under orders from anyone. That whole Luce article and the piece accompanying it came straight out of Luce's head. To me, most of his allegations are simply ridiculous. "The leadership of PL seems to agree: a PL lawyer has field suit charging the Post with Hbel...
...Algeria last week Hocine Ait Ahmed and an officer named Si Moussa sat in prison cells awaiting execution. Their four-day trial had taken place before a three-man "revolutionary criminal court." Ait Ahmed, 39, a French-trained lawyer, was captured last October after leading an underground movement aimed at toppling the government of President Ahmed ben Bella, his onetime comrade in arms in the F.L.N. struggle against the French. The state demanded the death sentence, and the 15 defense lawyers-Algerian, Moroccan, French and Swiss-finally quit the courtroom in protest at the methods of the tribunal, especially...
Fortnight ago, Augstein's lawyer gave the judge who will hear the case in May a 73-page brief, accusing Strauss of all sorts of corruption, from lying in the Bundestag to consorting with "women of uncertain profession...