Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockford is the coolest. Bar none. I mean, he wears polyester jackets, he drives a Firebird, he gets $200 a day plus expenses, plus the girl, generally. He dates girls who are smarter than he is, a very cool thing to do. Lately he has been dating Beth, a lawyer. Rockford could never be a lawyer--his degree is from the College of Hard Knocks. And his LSAT score was 417, anyway...
...Federal Government has a considerable regulatory apparatus to prevent nuclear radiation poisoning. Nothing is being done about dioxin, and it is just as toxic and there is a lot more of it around." So complained Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., the lawyer who got DDT banned...
...novel, Members of the Tribe, and in Simple Justice, documenting the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation, the legal system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down...
Henry F. Owens III, Allen's lawyer, called Judge Paul J. Lincos's 41-page majority opinion "a landmark decision, the first time in the history of the Commonwealth that our supreme judicial court has said that a peremptory challenge to exclude blacks systematically violates the constitution...
...hope to be in court next week on the question of bail," Henry F. Owens III, Allen's lawyer, said yesterday...