Word: lawyerly
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Dodd is the True Believer in Joseph Ruben's latest film. The movie follows the adventures of lawyer Dodd (James Woods) and his associate Roger Baron (Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact...
...Washington, Hope's friends and acquaintancessaid they thought she would be as successful aCorporation member as she has been a lawyer andpolitical figure...
...Harvard Corporation's first woman member, Hope is described by those who know her as a pragmatist whose successful career as a practicing lawyer has been accompanied by an equally long association with Republican politics...
While some colleagues consider Hope a brilliant lawyer, other Washington observers say she is a shrewd, charismatic networker whose ability to develop personal connections overshadows her legal talent...
Hope met her husband, Anthony J. Hope, son of comedian Bob Hope, while he was also attending the Law School. Anthony Hope, also a lawyer, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California's 21st district in 1986. The Hopes' son, Zachary, is a Harvard sophomore...