Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife tried to cheer me up. "Maybe if Bruce Lindsey gets indicted, he'll be represented by some bond lawyer he knew in Arkansas," she said...
...school instead, his father advised him. The law school, Laudor told the New York Times in 1995, turned out to be "the most supportive mental-health-care facility that exists in America." The Times story, documenting Laudor's recovery from schizophrenia and his struggle to become a lawyer in a world prejudiced against mental illness, transformed his life. It led to a $600,000-plus advance from Scribner for writing his saga and $1.5 million for the movie rights from director Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. At one point, Brad Pitt considered playing the lead in the film, titled, like...
...himself. At a fateful meeting on June 9, Dunlap said half a dozen times that he would go away quietly if the board were to buy him out of his contract. That was when the board lost confidence. "I was shocked," recalls board member Howard Kristol, a New York lawyer who represented Dunlap in his initial contract negotiation with Sunbeam. "We felt he had already left...
...tried repeatedly to get Dunlap or his lawyer on the phone but was unsuccessful. And I should note for the record that in the past I have written favorably of Dunlap, whose policy of fast and deep cost cutting at troubled companies, I believe, makes sense. Clearly, though, I was wrong about how far he could take Sunbeam...
...chance," I said. No lawyer who has compared himself to Atticus Finch is likely to turn the trial of the century over to a deputy. What profilers have found out about the personality type known as the Creampuff Bully is that even though he tends to surround himself with tough guys, he always has them withdraw to the wings when the spotlight goes...