Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal belongings ranging from saddles to paintings for $2.75 million. That is only a fraction of the $48.75 million that Connally's failed real estate empire still owes. But Connally may have a ! promising new job lined up. An old friend, Edward Bennett Williams, the high- powered Washington lawyer, is said to be thinking of inviting him to join his law firm...
Because the Red Line tunnel passes under part of CWT's land, half of its site is considered state property. Therefore the developer must be approved by the state environmental agency before building. CWT lawyer Donald Connors said "state approval won't be a problem," but Gifford countered that "they're not home free...
...case is a lawyer's nightmare. Since the bodies of death-squad victims are seldom found, little prima facie evidence exists. The court has thus had to rely on the testimony of those who have brushed up against the death squads. Their willingness to cooperate has already produced tragic results. A human-rights official and a former Honduran army sergeant have been killed in the past three weeks. Many Hondurans believe they were silenced by death squads...
Laurie Bernstein well remembers starting at a small Southern law firm and getting distinctly icy treatment from the only other woman lawyer on the staff. When Bernstein was given one of her female colleague's cases to handle, resentment turned to spite: Bernstein discovered that she was not getting the court documents, letters and other important papers she needed to handle the case. Late one evening she and a senior partner found the missing material hidden in the woman's mailbox. Ms. Sabotage was severely reprimanded. "I felt terrible," recalls Bernstein, 30. "I had expected a camaraderie to emerge between...
...women have problems relating to their female bosses. Even though MGM/ UA's McCarthy has high praise for her female colleagues, she admits that in the past she has "felt sabotaged" by executive secretaries. "It was jealousy of my position from someone on a lower level," she says. Corporate Lawyer Deborah Dugan, 29, recalls that when she joined a Los Angeles law firm, her assigned female secretary "refused to work for me. She said she would have trouble taking orders from another female...