Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reeves case could resonate, Starr's critics say, because it is not the only time one of his deputies has tried to block a defendant's right to counsel. Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg, has accused Starr deputy Emmick of violating his client's rights when Emmick resisted her attempts to contact an attorney in January during a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. At the time, Lewinsky wanted to call Frank Carter, the Washington lawyer provided by Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan, but FBI agents working for Starr and Emmick warned her that such a call would...
Ruff is the link between the two groups. The bookish lawyer is a classic Clinton White House counsel--upright, well respected. Ruff took the job no one else wanted, and Clinton embraced Ruff chiefly because he's a solid, by-the-book lawyer whose advice is regarded around town as some of Washington's best and whose political motives cannot be questioned...
...best game in Washington this year hasn't been watching Bill Clinton try to skate free of scandal. It has been watching one member of the "permanent government" of lawyers and lobbyists try to decide whom it's more important to protect--the President or himself. Presidents come and go, after all, but the superlawyer at the heart of this game, Vernon Jordan, likes to think he's forever. So when the game got serious last week with (of course) a series of careful leaks from a lawyer close to Jordan, guess who came...
...attorney handling a $20 million lawsuit for the family of the man who died in the restraining chair, is less of an Arpaio critic than you might guess. Get tough on crime? Fine with him. Why should inmates have cigarettes, coffee and skin magazines? The problem with Arpaio, the lawyer says, is that by publicly expressing glee over the suffering of inmates, "you're saying to your employees that they have a license to brutalize...
Your story mentioned that Hillary Clinton served as a House committee lawyer during Watergate and said she is "sounding a bit like Tricky Dick himself." I view Hillary more like Captain Queeg aboard the U.S.S. Caine. You could almost see her rolling those steel balls in her hand as she ranted on TV about the conspiracy. AL SARTOR Walnut Creek, Calif...