Word: lawyers
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...aberration. But even before the verdict was read, the Star Tribune faced the threat of a new breach-of-contract suit. Free-Lance Writer Martha Thomas sold an article to the paper's Sunday magazine telling the inside story of a rape trial. Thomas interviewed the defense lawyer on condition that her name not appear. But Star Tribune editors insisted that, because the trial was open to the public, it was fair to name names. Late last week the newspaper pulled all 625,000 copies of its Sunday magazine rather than risk litigation. Considering Cohen's victory, that seemed...
Actors and drama coaches employ a variety of techniques to help attorneys polish their acts. The point is not to have the barristers chewing the scenery but to help them get their points across. "If a lawyer overplays and comes across as an actor," notes Coughlan, "then credibility is lost." Some instructors have students practice with real material. Lawyers may, for instance, replay cases that have already gone through the courts, using actors and actresses in the parts of judge, jury and witnesses. Some hire actor- jurors to help them try out strategies for upcoming cases...
...Harvard response also expresses regret for "inconvenience" caused the court and Jackson's attorney, Evan T. Lawson, by the recent discovery by the University's lawyer, Allan A. Ryan, Jr., of hundreds of pages of documents from B-School files after the trial's completion...
...Wallach's behest, Meese intervened on behalf of the Wedtech Corp. in 1981, resulting ultimately in the defense contractor being awarded a $32 million contract. Meese also assisted Wallach in connection with a $1 billion Iraqi oil pipeline project, setting up a meeting between the San Francisco lawyer and then-National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane...
...might guess, Weston n' Ella don't get along too well. Each is tryin't' sell th' ranch from under th' other's nose--Weston t' a tacky nightclub owner named Ellis (Caroline Bicks), Ella t' a slick lawyer who's th' head zombie (Ethan Mintz). This sounds like th' set-up for a farce, n' it would be if everyone wasn't so serious n' aware of th' future about t' crash down on 'em like a watermelon on an anthill...