Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Julia's father, Michael C. McLaugh-lin--the lawyer who filed the controversial suit--believes that there are "no vestiges of past discrimination" remaining. Rather, he believes that the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction, into the realm of "reverse discrimination...
...been distributed, and other documents are likely to leak out. "It's very hard to say 'attorney-client privilege' when half the world will be seeing them," says Henry Miller, a past president of the New York Bar Association. "You are not playing around with some little plaintiff's lawyer who has a three-person practice but with the attorneys general of states...
...affirmed, it would totally change the journalistic and legal landscape," First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told the Journal. Dow Jones has $45 million in libel coverage for this case. Because libel law puts a heavy burden of proof on the accuser, most awards are reduced or thrown out on appeal, and the Journal is hoping that pattern holds. "We were chronicling the difficulties of this company; we did not cause them," managing editor Paul Steiger said in a statement...
...decided to bag his CIA nomination, White House aides complained privately that he was being bled to death by the "Ted Sorensen strategy." Sorensen was the ex-Kennedy Administration aide who became Carter's abortive nominee for CIA chief in 1977. Of the Lake debacle, Sorensen (now an international lawyer in New York City) told TIME last week: "Been there, done that": "Looking grim and even more somber than usual, [Sorensen] read a vigorous 10-page rebuttal of what he called 'scurrilous and personal attacks.' When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper and began reading from...
McVeigh's defense team has been understandably chagrined by the recent spate of negative stories. Says his lead lawyer, Stephen Jones: "I feel like I've been in the ring with Joe Louis. But I'm still on my feet. It's been a character-building experience." Nevertheless, sources say, members of his team feel the media disclosures have made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for McVeigh to get an acquittal. Still, Jones will press on. This week he will raise questions about a wider conspiracy by asking the government to hand over all evidence pertaining to Carol Howe...