Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first day of its sweeping antitrust suit against Microsoft: it dispensed with the case law and put Bill Gates front and center. A disembodied, larger-than-life Gates hovered over Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom on a 10-ft.-tall computerized video monitor during much of government lawyer David Boies' opening statement. The thrust of Boies' argument: the fidgety, spectral man-in-the-monitor was coolly dissembling about his plans to dominate the world technology market...
...seem farfetched, but that's precisely what Microsoft charged. On Day Two of the trial, lead Microsoft lawyer John Warden accused Boies of trying to "demonize Bill Gates" and of casting Microsoft as "the great Satan." Bill Gates as Beelzebub is actually a familiar trope in computerland. The Internet is filled with discussion groups debating whether Gates is the devil and Microsoft the Evil Empire. Search the Web for sites that pair the words Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier...
...students, professors and even a retired lawyer enjoyed fruit, crackers and refreshments as the crowd of about 45 listened to the honored guest as part of the monthly European Law Research Center's (ELRC) "distinguished speaker series...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Joe DiMaggio will be hospitalized for three more weeks with pneumonia and a lung infection even though his lawyer said yesterday he had improved from earlier this month when "we were fearful for his life...
DiMaggio's lawyer and friend, Morris Engelberg, said he has been with him every day since the Hall of Famer was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood...