Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These were some of the astonishing insights into Gates' management style that the software magnate revealed in federal court last week. Justice Department lawyer David Boies kicked off Week 3 of the decade's most watched antitrust suit by showing two hours of Gates' videotaped deposition. The excerpts, culled from about 20 hours taken last August, made Gates look like he was about the worst CEO in America...
...Jackson chuckled over a particularly blatant Gates evasion.) And there is no question that tearing down the defendant company's CEO is shrewd trial strategy. "It's damaging from a legal point of view when you have a judge hear a boss get up and lie," notes D.C. antitrust lawyer Donald Falk. "It may lead the judge to disbelieve the company's other rationalizations...
...Microsoft demand that his company drop a promising software application, asked, "Do you want us to knife the baby?" Yes, the Microsoft executive reportedly replied, "we're talking about knifing the baby." During Tevanian's testimony, Judge Jackson showed his first flash of anger, tearing into a Microsoft lawyer for his overly technical and at times "misleading" questioning style...
...shown was that the two sides were engaged in a p.r. struggle over its timing. Justice would have been happy to play the tape at the end of the previous week, when the TV feed would have been fodder for a weekend's worth of chat shows. But Microsoft lawyer John Warden's cross-examination of Colburn proceeded so glacially--sample topic: What is e-mail, Mr. Colburn?--that the video was bumped to the following Monday. Microsoft couldn't have been unhappy that Gates got lost in the clutter of last week's national election-eve coverage...
...Michigan, the biggest headache for lawyer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate GEOFFREY FIEGER (2) wasn't his defense of Jack ("Dr. Death") Kevorkian. Instead he found himself under fire for calling Jesus a goofball and comparing Jewish leaders to the Nazis. Fieger's last ads had voters saying they didn't like him but would grudgingly vote...