Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a thong in his heart, an otherwise respectable lawyer named Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) drops into a store to buy his wife some sexy lingerie for Christmas. There he bumps into--or rather is bumped into by--an old, if mysteriously agitated, acquaintance. Next thing he knows, he's an Enemy of the State--his house, his marriage, his job, all trashed by powerful, shadowy forces. There being no limit to their depravity, they even invalidate his credit cards...
Perhaps the most chilling moment comes when Starr defends his staff for telling Lewinsky she risked 27 years' imprisonment if she called her lawyer. He explains that she was "a felon in the middle of committing another felony." Is she an Uzi-wielding drug dealer? Detective Sipowicz couldn't have put it better...
SOLUTION NO. 5 is rooted in what has become the American way of late: sue. That's the course advocated by Dwight D. Brannon, a Dayton, Ohio, lawyer, who is suing state and local officials and a onetime Dayton-based company on behalf of its former workers...
Neige Christenson, another coordinating committee member, calls the Wednesday night gatherings "a total healing experience after being a lawyer or doctor all week" describing the group as "a kind of family to return to and celebrate being alive in our bodies...
...possible snag is that Kevorkian's face was not actually shown on the broadcast -- but then again, the good doctor isn't exactly marshaling his legal forces for a vigorous defense. Kevorkian's lawyer, David Gorosh, said today that his client has fired him and wants Wayne State University law professor Robert Sedler to provide legal advice. But just from the sidelines -- Kevorkian wants to represent himself in court. And he's promised that if convicted, he'll starve himself to death in prison. Without anyone else's help...