Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McConaughey's lawyer wins his case before a series of judges and succeeds in having the slaves declared not the legal property of Spain and instead free. But President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) intervenes so as to appease the pro-slavery South, and the case eventually goes to the Supreme Court. Former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) comes out of retirement to argue the case in that historic venue...
Green gave examples from her own experience as a trial lawyer and as an assistant U.S. attorney...
...intended government concentrator with hopes of eventually becoming an international lawyer, Gyorffy chose Harvard because of its excellent reputation for both academics and athletics. She says she has encountered very little trouble adjusting to life at an American university...
...Monday, lawyer Dan Callahan described Seng as a "destitute and broken" man who was hearing voices--and should not be held criminally responsible...
Sprewell Apologizes to Carlisimo Backed by his agent, the NBA players association and his new lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Latrell Sprewell used his first public statements since choking coach P.J. Carlisimo to apologize for his actions. Then he tried to wriggle out of his league-mandated punishment: "I feel 10 years of hard work shouldn't be taken away for one mistake. My career didn't happen overnight and I don't feel it should be taken away overnight...