Word: lawyers
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Packard also cites a "mythology that victims in general and women in particular are treated badly...This is a premise and I think it's untrue...If you're a woman and a lawyer and the judge calls you `dearie' and then rules in your favor then there's bias, but what's the effect...
...punch against husband Mike Tyson last October, Robin Givens hired Marvin Mitchelson, the dean of American divorce gurus, to handle her much publicized breakup with the world heavyweight boxing champion. But Givens soon dropped the Los Angeles attorney and signed with Raoul Felder, 54, a New York City divorce lawyer who has won handsome settlements for the former wives of Mel Brooks, Martin Scorsese and Robin Leach, among others. For Felder to take charge of the season's most ballyhooed split seemed a fitting turnaround. Mitchelson, 60, who has recently been accused of professional misconduct and even rape, appears...
...TENTH MAN (CBS) A rich lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis in Paris bargains to save his life and later faces the consequences. Anthony Hopkins made the viewer feel every moral pang in Graham Greene's engrossing story...
...American lawyer in Beijing, Timothy Gelatt, met with Chinese officials earlier this month to discuss the taxes on a joint venture involving one of his U.S. clients. As the conversation progressed, an official suddenly - produced a document Gelatt had never seen. "I said, 'Oh, what's that?' " he recalls. The document was a ruling directly related to the taxing of joint ventures, but it had never been published openly. To foreign attorneys and many Chinese as well, the incident was typical. Says Gelatt: "We are constantly finding out by accident things that are relevant to what we're doing...
...American free-lance diplomats, all members of the Israel-based International Center for Peace in the Middle East, whose international chairman is former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. "Our effort was intended to clarify the ambiguities," said Rita Hauser, a member of the Jewish delegation and a New York lawyer active in the Republican Party. "I believe we have done that." Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson called the meeting "a breakthrough in the peace process...