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...Many in Haiti fear that there won't be a proper hearing. The house of the prosecutor in Chamblain's original trial was recently burned down, and the judge in the case was severely beaten. "He won't have much resistance in the courtroom," says Brian Concannon, a U.S. lawyer who aided the 1995 prosecution of Chamblain. Can Haiti resist a return to the kind of right-wing regime that encouraged atrocities like Raboteau in the first place? Two months after the arrival of some 3,500 international peacekeeping troops - who are scheduled to be replaced next month...
...pairing as opposing counsel, the two continue to face off, eventually arriving at the central case of the movie: an acrimonious, made for MTV break-up. Parker Posey is disappointing as Serena, the fashion designer wife of hard-rockin’ Brit, Thorne Jamison (Michael Sheen) who wants a lawyer to “rip his balls off,” not necessarily metaphorically speaking. Posey seems to have forgotten that to convey independence of spirit it is not enough simply to slouch in a chair. The one contested item in the divorce is the pair’s love...
Designated an “enemy combatant” by federal authorities, Padilla can legally be held until the conflict in which he participated is over. But Jenny Martinez, Padilla’s lawyer, rightly challenges the basic assumptions the government made when her client was detained. The most important issue is whether Padilla, arrested on American soil, should be declared an enemy combatant in the first place. The government’s lawyer, Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, claims that because the war on terror is global the whole of the United States is a battleground as well...
...Barry Manuel, chair of the largest medical insurer in Massachusetts, the Promutual Group, claimed that over half of what insurance companies pay goes to lawyer fees, while doctors and patients suffer...
Slavitt is a combination of pomposity and sardonicism, a man who is smart, talented, funny—and knows it. He was raised in the affluent suburbs of Westchester, N.Y., the son of a prominent Manhattan lawyer. In his teens he shipped off to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., matriculating at Yale College...