Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of the end came in early May, when the Lewinsky family decided to bring in Judy Smith, who had worked in George Bush's press office, to deal with the media. Sources said Smith, a media adviser for Marcia Lewis' lawyer, Billy Martin, since the scandal broke, was brought in over the objections of Ginsburg, who thought he was handling Monica's public relations just fine. But the Lewinskys were exasperated by his TV appearances and his public feuding with Starr. Sources also said Ginsburg had angered Lewinsky's father by submitting hefty, unitemized bills. Ginsburg denies he objected...
...Memorial Day, Monica's parents had concluded that Ginsburg had to go. And just a few days later, they had reason to want to kick him out immediately: they were blindsided by his "open letter" to Ken Starr in California Lawyer, in which Ginsburg said Starr "may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Inasmuch as those words seem to acknowledge the possibility that there was sex between Clinton and Lewinsky, it would contradict her denials in the affidavit she presented in the Paula Jones case. If dropping hints that his client may have perjured herself...
...agreement, Monica was summoned two weeks ago to a Los Angeles federal building to provide fingerprints and handwriting samples. Sources tell TIME that by then she was so alienated from Ginsburg that she didn't want him to accompany her to the court. He did anyway. When Starr's lawyers asked her to copy specific handwriting passages--a routine practice in such sessions--she didn't turn to Ginsburg for advice, the sources say. They say she insisted first on contacting her other lawyer, Nathaniel Speights, who remains on her team. After that conversation, she refused to comply...
Soon after, the family asked Martin, a prominent Washington defense lawyer and former top prosecutor, to help find a replacement for Ginsburg. Lewinsky quietly left Los Angeles and arrived in Washington to interview several candidates. One of them was Tom Green, a steely litigator who was impressed at the trenchant questions Monica directed at him a source close to Green said. But the Lewinsky family had in mind a team concept, which Green resisted. Stein won over the Lewinskys partly because they liked the idea of bringing on board someone who had been an independent counsel. Just before noon...
...year veteran of the Washington legal scene, Stein, 73, looks back fondly on an earlier time, when the D.C. bar was filled with eccentrics. The leading criminal lawyer in the 1940s, Stein once recalled, got his cases because he was best friends with the chief of police. And when he made a closing argument, he screamed at the jury so loudly that he could be heard in Judiciary Square. "The bar used to have a roguish element about it, which in a sense was wholesome," Stein told the Washingtonian. "Lawyers didn't take themselves seriously...