Word: lawyerly
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Making investment banking deals in between fudge store runs is also possible because everyone who isn't a doctor or a professor is an investment banker or a lawyer, and as everyone who read The New York Times Magazine at Lucy Vincent Beach last Sunday knows, lawyers are really the same thing as investment bankers. If you want to see them in person, catch PBA's 7:10 a.m. flight from Edgartown to Boston any Monday morning and you'll see them being driven to the airport by their madras-clad sons or Lilly Pulitzer-clad wives. If you merely...
Straight out of Harvard Law School in 1981, Robert Jason accepted a $33,000 starting salary at O'Melveny & Myers, a Los Angeles-based firm with some 375 lawyers in offices on both coasts. Large firms appeal to clients in part by offering them expertise in minute and sometimes arcane legal specialties. Jason found himself assigned to municipal-bond tax law. "A total dead end," he now moans. Even worse, he maintains, at a large firm "associates do the absolute dregs of the work-- six months at a time in a warehouse looking through documents." Following an increasingly well-worn...
...raids were well coordinated. One evening in June, 50 Brazilian federal agents in the southern state of Santa Catarina simultaneously swept down on the home of Lawyer Carlos Cesario Pereira, 40, a maternity hospital and a number of clandestine nurseries. Police recovered 20 children ranging in age from newborns to 3-year-olds, arrested seven suspects and detained 22 Israeli couples who were seeking to adopt children. The Israelis were later released because they apparently did not realize that the adoption proceedings might be illegal. Police claimed that Cesario was involved in the illegal adoption of Brazilian children by foreign...
...maneuvering and blatant logrolling by pro-Manion forces, Senators divided mainly along party lines, with only two Democrats for Manion and five Republicans against. The deans of some 40 law schools protested the appointment on the ground that Manion was short on experience and competence. A South Bend, Ind., lawyer who is a former state legislator and son of a leader of the ultraconservative John Birch Society, Manion, 44, has never argued a case before a federal appeals court. The American Bar Association had found Manion "qualified," but that is its lowest passing grade...
...systems now being tested go one step further. Stenotype machines are wired directly to the transcription computer, and their output is immediately flashed on the monitors in the courtroom. To review earlier testimony, a judge or lawyer simply turns to a terminal, scrolls through the transcript and finds the passage on the screen...