Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence to the contrary--including Judge Jackson's stern admonitions and chief prosecutor David Boies' demolition of defense witnesses--Heiner insists that the government's case is a house of cards built on "various random incidents or pieces of e-mail...
Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, one of the non-governmental organizations instrumental in the formation of the FLA, defended the group, saying that it hasmuch potential...
Ferris began his speech with a description of Rosemary Nelson, a Catholic human rights lawyer who was killed in Northern Ireland two days ago. A Protestant guerilla group known as the Red Hand Defenders claimed responsibility for an explosion that killed Nelson...
...lawsuits: one by Sugar Ray Leonard, who contends that his name was used without permission in the Tae-Bo infomercial; and another by Seth Ersoff, an entertainment manager who claims he introduced Monea to Blanks and was later denied a share of the profits from Tae-Bo. Monea's lawyer declines to comment on the allegations. But his client's track record isn't reassuring. In 1997 an Ohio court ruled that Monea's company could not sell "the stimulator," an electric-grill lighter outfitted with a thumb plunger that, when pressed, was supposed to relieve pain...
...Harvard-educated lawyer, Graham, 37, gained notoriety seven years ago by working as a busboy at a white country club and exposing the prejudices of its members in New York magazine. Here, instead of reporting on the foibles of the black upper crust, Graham sucks up to it, providing little more than a breathless list of neighborhoods, vacation spots and social clubs dominated by folks who can pass the "brown paper bag" test, meaning that their complexion is lighter than a grocery bag. His criteria for including an institution in the elite class are that he either belongs...