Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's lawyer in a gender discrimination suit brought by a former Business School professor yesterday postponed a meeting to go over newly-discovered documents that may prove relevant to the case, the professor's attorney said...
...lawyer for Barbara Bund Jackson '66, a former associate professor of industrial marketing, said yesterday that Harvard's attorney called him less than two hours before the scheduled meeting to tell him that he was still blacking out the names of professors mentioned in the documents. The scholars' identities are protected under Harvard's rights of academic privilege...
Jackson's lawyer, Evan T. Lawson, said the delay indicated that Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan, Jr. had discovered a large number of unrevealed documents. Neither Jackson nor her attorney know what the documents are, but if they prove relevant to the case, Lawson said he will have the option of reopening the case for up to 10 days after the verdict is announced...
Schkolnick's lawyer said yesterday that he did not expect that the cut in funding would further delay her case...
...states have declared surrogate contracts unenforceable. But only in Michigan is surrogacy deemed a crime. Under a law signed by Governor James Blanchard last week, people entering into a surrogate contract for pay, and spouses who condone such arrangements, can be fined $10,000 and jailed for a year. Lawyers and other brokers who promote surrogacy contracts are branded felons; they can be fined $50,000 and imprisoned for five years. Surrogate arrangements involving no fee remain legal. Surrogacy Lawyer Noel Keane and the American Civil Liberties Union say they will sue to have the law declared unconstitutional...