Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lesson from these cases, as well as from the tobacco settlement, is that that mysterious masked entity known as a corporation is in fact an ingenious device for collectivizing responsibility. Even when a corporation is found guilty, no actual individual need take the fall. But if the defense lawyer for a mere biological person attempts a similar diffusion of blame--by, for example, pointing out the defendant's history of abuse as a child, or the fact that several upstanding citizens had noticed the missing stop sign and failed to report it--said lawyer can expect these days...
...slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, a little too comfortable with the trial's lurid voyeurism? Or the hero of Hitchcock's Vertigo, a broken gent for whom an obsession with a corpse is the most fulfilling romantic release? Or the frontier lawyer in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, uneasy with the heroic legends printed about...
Taylor's reportage packed a special punch because it was his November 1996 article in the American Lawyer that made the first persuasive case for taking Jones seriously. (He called her case stronger than Anita Hill's and blamed the media's disdain for her on class bias.) What followed was a stampede to Jones' side as journalists--who would rather be called anything other than elitists--repented mentioning her big hair and laughing at James Carville's line about the result of dragging "a hundred dollars through a trailer park." Suddenly, Jones was no longer a gold digger backed...
Minutes before the Federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., closed for the Fourth of July holiday, attorney Bob Bennett filed the defendant's answer in the matter of Jones v. Clinton. The President's lawyer is no longer out to bury the case, he says, but to win it. Smelling trouble for Jones, Bennett is talking witnesses and affidavits these days, not negotiations or settlements. In his answer to Jones' complaint, he denied her charges and asked the court to dismiss the case. Failing that, he requested a conference to set a trial date. "There's no dragging this...
...months after Donald Trump and wife Marla called it quits, The Donald's former wife Ivana says she has separated from her husband of a year and a half, Riccardo Mazzucchelli. Although the New York tabs had a field day --"Ivana be Alone Again" said the Post -- Ivana's lawyer said neither side has filed divorce papers. Perhaps that's because, according to the Post, an airtight prenuptial agreement prevents Mazzucchelli from claiming a share of the $25 million Ivana got when she divorced Trump. Ah, love...