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...that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals-panels of three military officers that have been in place since last July-have given detainees all the due process to which they are entitled. Earlier this year a federal judge strongly disagreed, citing the fact that detainees were not allowed to have lawyers present at the review tribunals and were not privy to much of the evidence used against them. Another federal judge came down on the government's side. A case before a court of appeals in Washington is expected to decide the issue. Meanwhile, a recently declassified letter to military authorities...
Goldin, who kept her name when she married in 1979, was inspired to do the study in part because her niece, a lawyer, changed hers. "She felt that her generation of women didn't have to do the same things mine did, because of what we had already achieved," Goldin says. "They would uphold all the ideals of gender equality but didn't have to proclaim it with their surname." In other words, women had come far enough that names didn't matter...
...time, and Scottoline was a fan. But she had a gripe with the popular new genre. "I don't think women characters were well realized," she says. "They were the subordinate characters. They were the wife, the spouse, the girlfriend. I thought, I'm a woman trial lawyer. I'm not that rare a bird." She also found the characters too white bread. "I'm an Italian American," she says. "I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. I saw no Italians and Jews. I want people whom I recognize...
Like her other novels, Devil's Corner is a fast-paced thriller featuring a female lawyer with an ample supply of attitude. Vicki Allegretti, a U.S. Attorney, teams up with Reheema Bristow, a glamorous African-American woman who has been wrongly accused of a crime, to expose an ever widening conspiracy of cocaine dealing and violence. Added to the mix is some hanky-panky between Vicki and a senior attorney in her office...
Whatever you call it, she tips her hat to the creator of the genre. John Grisham, she says, "made room for people like me. He showed the interior life of a lawyer. And lawyers aren't always heroes." Or heroines--in the case of Scottoline's protagonists, although, like their creator, they do their job with style, preferably in heels...