Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Steele's lawyer, John West, Steele got a call one day in early 1997 from Willey, who was talking with Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff. Could Isikoff come to interview her about Willey's visit to the Oval Office? Steele agreed but wondered why. While Isikoff was on his way to Steele's house, Willey called her again and told her what to say--that Willey had come to her house after returning from Washington that day, described a sexual advance by Clinton and was in great distress...
Steele's affidavit is obviously a help for Bob Bennett and All the President's Lawyers; the President doesn't hit on women, the argument will go, he just comforts them in distress, and they may misunderstand or exaggerate that gesture. In fact, says a source close to Clinton, it was the President who was upset by the whole Willey affair. She and her husband Edward, a lawyer, were longtime supporters who had run into serious trouble: Edward was accused of embezzling nearly $300,000 from clients. Penniless and publicly humiliated, Willey came to see Clinton, weeping and distraught...
...inalienable that we don't mention them, and neither did the Founding Fathers. If pressed, I would have guessed that parent-child communications fall into that constitutional sweet spot, the Ninth Amendment, which acknowledges rights so sacred they don't need to be enumerated. But that's the lawyer in me reaching. Like almost every other parent in America, I simply took for granted--until I saw Marcia Lewis psychologically strip-searched last week on what she knows about the sex life of her daughter Monica Lewinsky--that the government could not compel me to testify before a grand jury...
...book. ?In the short run, when she is free of jeopardy, a literary effort might be her only option,? said her attorney William Ginsburg. Her only option, that is, to pay Ginsburg?s own hefty fees. After swearing off Sunday talk shows for good some weeks ago, Monica?s lawyer had mysteriously reappeared on Meet the Press and Face the Nation -- not to praise his client, but to bury her in a pile of legal bills. ?I am not being paid appropriately,? Ginsburg complained. ?Frankly, it?s difficult just to pay the costs that have been incurred in air fares...
...trial hearing for Elster in District Court is scheduled for today. Kenneth F. D'Arcy '58, Elster's defense lawyer, said attorneys from both sides of the case will set dates for future court appearances at the hearing...