Word: ledeen
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...Till the stock of the Puritans die.” Harry R. Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?” His book with Hal Abelson and Ken Ledeen, “Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion,” will be published on June...
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) makes good money at Kenner, Bach and Ledeen, one of those vast Manhattan law factories, but he's never made partner. And is unlikely to do so. Partly that's a matter of class. He's a cop's son and the product of the Fordham Law school, not Yale or Harvard. Partly it's a matter of his legal - or should we say marginally illegal? - services to the firm. He is its smooth, cool fixer, the guy who cleans up the messes - hit-and-run driving cases, ugly divorces, immigration muddles - in which the firm...
...Michael Clayton, written and directed by Tony Gilroy (who wrote a couple of the Bourne movies), plays into a pretty common form of contemporary American paranoia. Everyone fears a legal letter from a firm like Kenner, Bach and Ledeen, which typically signifies lots of unpleasant prospects: that someone is willing to spend millions to go after you, that even if, eventually, you prevail, the cost of defending yourself will ruin you and that law firms and their big-time clients will not be entirely scrupulous in pursuing their case. Sure enough, murderous private detectives are soon deployed to protect U/North...
Kenneth S. Ledeen, chairman of Nevo Technologies and Harvard teaching fellow, explained that ethical questions raised by the incident cannot be easily resolved...
...reason you don’t see much of a consensus is that people don’t have a clear framework through which to view it,” Ledeen said...