Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belli the lawyer with an instinctive allegiance to the underdog, whose sense of justice and compassion led him to "torts"? literally, "wrongs,"--that had to be righted, to individuals who had to be helped against insurance companies and pharmaceutical conglomerates...
...Francisco and Los Angeles. San Diego in the far south and Eureka in the far north, your verdicts are a third of what you'd get in Los Angeles. It's just the people haven't been educated--they're stingy. There's been no good trial lawyer who has raised the awards...I think you see some cities with pockets of high awards and they are attributable to one or two damn good trial lawyers, and that's unfortunate...
Greta, who filed for divorce soon after the incident, claims that John chased her through a field near their apartment building, dragged her inside and raped her as their 2½-year-old daughter watched and cried, "Mommy, Mommy!" Defense Lawyer Charles Burt admitted that sexual intercourse took place, but he denied that John had used force. Greta kneed her husband in the groin, Burt told the jurors, and John then slapped her in the face. The defense portrayed the young couple's rocky four-year relationship as "quarrel, make up, have...
BORN. To John William Carter, 31, lawyer, grain merchant and eldest son of President Carter, and Judy Langford Carter, 28: their second child, a daughter, and the President's first granddaughter, third grandchild; in Atlanta. Name: Sarah Rosemary Carter...
SEPARATED. Randolph Apperson Hearst, 63, chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation and president of the San Francisco Examiner; and Catherine Campbell Hearst, 61; after 40 years of marriage, five daughters; in San Francisco. Mrs. Hearst's lawyer attributes the couple's marital difficulties to the kidnaping and jailing of Daughter Patricia. Said he: "They've gone through more anxiety and pain than most American families...