Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome, gregarious "King of Torts" smiled benignly at the one-legged skeleton beside him and happily explained the secrets of his success. "The ingredients of a trial lawyer," said Melvin M. (for Mouron) Belli in San Francisco last week, "are imagination and initiative. You need a feeling for the plaintiff, the desire to do him some good and to stick with him through thick and thin, and the guts to do just that when everyone is criticizing you." Belli paused thoughtfully, added: "And a little law will help...
...personal injury. In the last ten years, average jury awards in personal-injury suits have soared by a spectacular 266%. His worst enemies admit, indeed insist, that flamboyant Melvin Belli, who has won more than 100 cases in the past decade with awards exceeding $100,000. is the lawyer most responsible...
...Lawyer Belli's methods sometimes exceed traditional limits. In one celebrated case, in which he acted for a woman who had lost one leg, Belli brought a grotesque, leg-shaped package into the courtroom. It was wrapped in butcher's paper, tied with twine. Throughout the trial, the jury stared in horrified fascination at the package. Finally, near the end of the trial, Showman Belli slowly and deliberately opened the package-and handed the contents to a startled juror. It was an artificial leg, of the sort the plaintiff would have to wear for the rest...
...only man who could have silenced the firing squads was Fidel Castro Ruz, the 32-year-old lawyer, fighter and visionary who led the rebellion. And Castro was in no mood for mercy. "They are criminals," he said. "Everybody knows that. We give them a fair trial. Mothers come in and say, 'This man killed my son.' " To demonstrate, Castro offered to stage the courts-martial in Havana's Central Park-an unlikely spot for cool justice but perfect for a modern-day Madame Defarge...
Months in Solitary. Fidel's trial, on charges of leading an armed uprising, was all that a lawyer-revolutionary could ask. Rising for a three-hour oration, Castro described the attack in fearless detail, diagnosed Cuba's social ills-"The 900,000 farmers and workers, miserably exploited, with perennial work their only future and the grave their only rest." He denounced Batista's corruption and tyranny: "We were born in a free country, and we would rather see this island sink to the bottom of the ocean than consent to be anybody's slave." Concluding...