Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monica had about 12 hours to go: at that very moment, Clinton still had 12 days before his appointment with Kenneth Starr, but his thoughts that night at the White House were of rebellion--against Starr, against the advice of his own lawyer, David Kendall, against the expectations building on all sides. He had agreed to testify because he felt he had no choice in the face of a subpoena and the warnings from Democrats that he had better not fight it. But no decisions are forever these days, and so on the eve of Monica's testimony...
BAYANI NELVIS In February the Wall Street Journal retracted an online story that the White House steward had testified he had seen Clinton and Lewinsky alone. But the paper let stand a report that Nelvis had found soiled tissues after she left one day. Nelvis' lawyer, however, said he gave no testimony about tissues...
...more scams. Safir said eight cases were of particular interest. He refused to elaborate, but in reference to the missing former dancer, he made a point of law. "You do not need a body to charge someone with murder." No, but you do need forensic evidence, argues Sante Kimes' lawyer Jose Muniz, "and there is nothing." Still, charges of credit-card fraud were added to the Kimeses' resume on Friday, and Safir predicts additional charges this Thursday...
David P. Schippers, the lawyer hired by the house to help lead possible impeachment hearings against the President, is a lifelong Democrat who voted for Clinton twice. That's not the only surprising thing about his appointment as lead counsel by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde. Schippers, a widely respected criminal-defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, has had practically nothing to do with national politics in his four-decade career. He once said he counts Thomas Jefferson among his heroes because "he never wanted to be in politics...
This is also a man who wrote a fan letter to a hostile witness because he knew the witness was telling the truth. Schippers says he's the kind of lawyer who prefers to "play it according to the rules" rather than bend them to score a point off a legal opponent. By that standard alone, Schippers, 68, may seem an anomaly within the Beltway. In fact, he came to Washington only in March, having grown up and spent most of his professional life in Chicago. He considered becoming a priest and attended Chicago's Quigley seminary. But he opted...