Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps then Hillary Clinton would not have come under fire for being an intelligent lawyer as well as a wife when Bill Clinton was first running for President (this was before her health plan). Lawyer Cherie Blair did not receive such treatment from the British press when Tony Blair first became prime minister. The British press had their hands full with Princess Diana. The advantage of having a royal family is that the royal family--no matter how dysfunctional--serves to depersonalize politics by drawing all critiques of personality in the public realm to itself. If we depersonalized political systems...
...will see you through four hours at O'Hare, would say of Westlake, "Sure, clever fellow, writes detective stories." He doesn't, however. In the long list of his 60-some novels, the author recalls no detectives, no "police procedurals," as cop stories are called in the trade, no lawyer novels. Why? Mildly, but definitely, Westlake gives a surprising answer: "Authority is doing fine. They don't need my help." Spy novels, then? "No, they were never right for me. Those guys are working...
...libel suit he brought against loose-mouthed radio talkster Don Imus; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. Though the public may have been fascinated by the flap with Imus, jurists were more intrigued by Rothwax's legal odyssey over the years from civil liberties lawyer to law-and-order judge. In an attention-catching 1996 book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, Rothwax argued that justice would be better served by clipping defendants' rights and giving police more leeway to seize evidence...
...Pacino steals the show as the head of a truly diabolical New York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Southern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishly good time with his rip-roaringly over-the-top antics. --Brandon K. Walston...
...Tuesday, defense lawyers will ask Judge Hiller Zobel to overturn the verdict or reduce the charge, though that is deemed unlikely in such a controversial case. Thursday's verdict shocked court observers, who had expected the lengthy jury deliberation and a poor prosecution performance to result in a not-guilty verdict. Much of the U.K., where the trial has received gavel-to-gavel coverage, was aghast at the result. "The only 12 people who believe Louise Woodward is guilty are the 12 people on the jury," said defense lawyer Andrew Good. "I'm at a loss to understand how anyone...