Word: lawyerly
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...letter to the recently formed Joint Committee on Appointments, which consists of the President and Provost, members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, Berkowitz alleges, through his lawyer Mathew H. Feinberg, that "The procedures applied at the Ad Hoc and Presidential Review violated fundamental due process and require your careful scrutiny." More specificially, Feinberg writes in the Dec. 5 letter, "Five of the six experts selected as Ad Hoc Committee members were not on the offical slate the Department [of Government] submitted to the Dean [of FAS Knowles]; all five 'new' members were people who were antipathetic...
...work.") But as the letter serves as the official legal response from the University in a case that may very well lead to a lawsuit seeking damages, it is not meant to be taken at face value; rather it is the defensive reply to an opening blast. When the lawyer Feinberg visited Nesson's class to discuss the potentials of the Berkowitz case, he intoned to this writer, "It hasn't even started...
...name but also, to an uncanny degree, his lanky and sensitive good looks. After being arrested in 1983 for heroin possession, Bobby did community service at the Natural Resources Defense Council, starting him off on a career as the green Kennedy. Today he teaches environmental law and is a lawyer with Riverkeeper, a conservation group based in New York's Hudson River Valley...
...There is no such thing as an accident," lawyer Mitchell Stevens (Ian Holm) tells prospective clients in Atom Egoyan's haunting film The Sweet Hereafter. Somebody must be to blame for the school bus accident that killed 14 children in a small Canadian town, he explains to the grieving parents whom he hopes will join his lawsuit. Fortunately, director Egoyan chooses a more complex path for his film, focusing on the capacity for survival instead of retribution...
...news capped an unusual day in which Kaczynski told Judge Garland Burrell he wants to act as his own lawyer. To prove his mental competence, Kaczynski said he's now willing to undergo psychological testing. In the meantime, Burrell again put off opening arguments in the murder case, which is adjourned until Friday at the earliest...