Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avatar lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate of Crane, Inker, and Oteri, immediately appealed the decision to the Superior Court...
Like most of the moderates, Spong is a middleaged, socially prominent lawyer. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, where his friends included the sons of three past Virginia governors, and then went to Europe with the 8th Army Corps during the Second World War. After the war, he studied law at the University of Virginia and at the University of Edinburgh. In 1954 he won election to the state's House of Delegates and two years later entered the State Senate. While he was in the Senate, he earned acclaim even from the Byrd people for a four-year study...
...story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When Watkins refused, Lawyer Buckley pulled a knife. Watkins was dragged from the car and knocked around. One of the Klansmen stuck a pistol in his face. "There's one bullet in this gun," he said. "I'm gonna keep pulling the trigger until you say what we want you to or until...
Iffy Chances. At issue is a conflict of interest between the company and the insured-both represented by the same lawyer, whose loyalties may be divided. Example: an accident victim sues for $20,000, but offers to settle for the policy limit of $10,000. In that case, the company may have good reason to refuse the offer. A jury might find for the policyholder, so that the company would need to pay nothing at all, or the decision might be for a lower award, also saving money for the company. But even if the insured loses and the jury...
...obligation not merely to exercise good faith, but to use due care" in looking out for the interests of the insured. State Farm had passed up three chances to settle an auto-accident case for a total that was less than the eventual jury verdict-even though its lawyer had indicated that the company's chances of winning in court were somewhat iffy and had actually predicted the size of the verdict if the jury found for the plaintiff...