Word: lawyerly
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March says the program doesn't constrain its participants to technical careers. "It opens a whole world view so that if they work in Chemistry that's not their only option--they can be a patent lawyer or a science writer," she says...
...present to the jury. Instead, with Woodward's assent, the defense persuaded the judge that the verdict should be all or nothing--murder or acquittal. It was a gamble that went terribly wrong. "It was stunning," said Alex MacDonald, a local trial attorney. "I do not know any lawyer in the Greater Boston area who has any reaction other than shock." The verdict brings a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for the British teenager until 15 years have been served. Woodward's defense will petition Judge Hiller Zobel to set aside the verdict this week...
...race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse race. "All you really need for a lawsuit is contained in these pieces of paper," says Terry Pell, a lawyer with the Washington-based Center for Individual Rights, which litigates on behalf of a variety of conservative causes...
...decision that delighted the English and polarized America. "It is a little troubling," confessed TIME National Correspondent (and former civil rights lawyer) Adam Cohen. "We are a system that believes in juries. When a judge steps in, you have to ask why." Nevertheless, Zobel ruled earlier, there had been no malice in Woodward's actions ? and therefore her murder conviction was invalid...
Safire remarked jokingly that he did not really call First Lady Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar," as Kalb had alleged, but a "congenial lawyer...