Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jackson's arrest last January, the actor inflicted far more damage on himself when he subsequently admitted in an interview with Dan Rather not only that he had a "rendezvous" with Jackson's mother more than 20 years ago but also that paternity of Jackson was "a possibility." His lawyer confirms he helped support her while she was in school. Why, then, is Jackson on trial? "Prosecutors have a hard time resisting the temptation to be in the headlines," says Gerard Lynch, a former federal prosecutor...
...John Huang was the Lippo Group's front man in Washington, investigators say, Joe Giroir was its back-room brains. The Arkansas lawyer emerged from the sidelines of Donorgate last week when the Senate hearings put a spotlight on his frenetic lobbying to land a Democratic fundraising job for Huang, Lippo's favorite son in the U.S. But investigators tell TIME that Giroir played a more pivotal role for the Indonesian conglomerate in its quest for influence in Washington: after securing Lippo as a $3 million investor in his company, Giroir contributed a total of $175,000 to the Democrats...
Also damaging to Jones is the disillusionment of her first lawyer, Daniel Traylor, who is asking the court for leave to quit the case and thinking about giving up law practice altogether. Traylor interviewed Jones at great length, he says, but he does not recall her ever telling him about the most explosive piece of evidence--the "distinguishing characteristics" she allegedly saw on Clinton's genital area. The first Traylor heard of them was when he read a draft complaint by co-counsels Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis nearly four months after Jones had hired him. Traylor also says that...
...hard to imagine RICHARD GERE turning down the chance to work on Red Corner, a movie in which he gets to act and be an activist too. Gere, silvering up nicely at 47, plays a lawyer who finds himself accused of rape and murder while in China. If you're thinking of this as an opportunity for the longtime Tibetan activist to educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie...
...existing Clinton speeches to imply that the President is speaking about a message from the aliens, an extension of a tactic Zemeckis used in "Forrest Gump," where the protagonist was cut into historical footage so that he appeared to be talking to everyone from LBJ to Nixon. Clinton lawyer Charles Ruff says Zemeckis effectively gave the President a role in the film without his authorization, and has sent Warner Brothers a letter charging the film improperly manipulated the President's statements and used his image for commercial purposes. A Warner Brothers spokeswoman says the company wants Clinton...