Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defined it," Clinton told prosecutors at one point in the testimony. Asked if he was ever alone with Lewinsky, he said, "It depends on how you define alone... There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were." Asked if his lawyer Bob Bennett had been correct when he assured the judge in January that "there is absolutely no sex of any kind," Clinton said that was true because "it depends on what the meaning of the word...
...persuading Starr to back off is no mean challenge. The President and his aides have been attacking the prosecutor for years. Clinton's lawyer David Kendall persuaded a federal judge to launch two investigations into whether Starr leaked grand jury evidence to reporters. One way Kendall could extend the olive branch to Starr: drop the complaint...
...Kendall defenders note that he is the only person who has to focus exclusively on the client's legal jeopardy--and that client is himself a lawyer who likes to overrule his advisers. Clinton's choice of Kendall was a sign that he would never be taken prisoner. Kendall's firm, Williams & Connolly, prides itself on practicing "Green Beret law." The firm's founder Edward Bennett Williams used to say that in life, "every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss." Williams called it "contest living...
...There is a question of how much money," Collins' lawyer Joseph T. Fleming said, adding that it is a question of "he said, she said...
...page filing released by the group's lawyer, Ellen Zucker, Wong asserts that she was cornered by supervisors and told she did not have the leadership skills to continue effectively performing...