Word: lawyerly
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...justify to TIME the gap between recommended penalties and those that were ultimately exacted. The officials say nursing homes "have a right" to correct problems before penalties are imposed. But a former government inspector disagrees. "Congress said to impose these penalties, and they're not," says Charles Bailey, a lawyer who left the HCFA this year after spending nearly seven years trying to punish bad nursing homes...
This is the first version of his death. On June 2, 1976, Dillon, a lawyer, and his friend Stephen Scher, a physician, were skeet shooting at Gunsmoke, a hunting camp in northeastern Pennsylvania owned by Dillon's family. According to Scher, as the two of them blasted clay pigeons, Dillon caught sight of a porcupine and, after grabbing Scher's 16-gauge Winchester pump-action shotgun, ran off after it. Scher told police that he heard a shot, ran toward it and found Dillon 250 ft. away with a fatal wound to his chest. He had apparently tripped over...
Keanu Reeves co-stars with Pacino as Kevin Lomax, a cocky, hot-shot young lawyer--is there any other kind in Hollywood movies?--from Gainesville, Florida who has never lost a trial. After winning his umpteenth case, in which he defends a teacher accused of child molestation (and during which one of the teacher's victims, played to mock Southern perfection by Heather Matarazzo from Welcome to the Dollhouse, breaks into tears) he is approached by a representative from a New York law firm...
...Flanked by her lawyer, Masten refused to say whether Albert had actually injured her during their alleged encounter. The pair alluded darkly to "further legal proceedings...
...Newcastle in Natal, South Africa. She attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, graduating in 1966. She became the president of the National Union of South African Students, and a fervent advocate of majority rule. However, she insisted that at that time she had no idea that she would become a lawyer, much less a judge...