Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legal mag publishes a Ginsburg open letter: "Congratulations, Mr. Starr!" he writes. "As a result of your callous disregard for cherished constitutional rights, you may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Oops...
APRIL 8 A lobster dinner at Legal Sea Foods, where, over red Bordeaux, he reportedly muses that maybe he could eventually have his own CNN show. To which Monica is said to have replied, "Yeah, you'll have plenty of time when I fire...
...White House is that in sharp distinction to the Los Angeles-based Ginsburg, Cacheris and Stein are the very definition of well-connected Washington insiders--so well connected, in fact, that their friends and former partners are representing other figures in the case. For instance, John Hundley, a Cacheris legal partner who will help him with the Lewinsky case, is the son of Vernon Jordan's lawyer Bill Hundley--who also used to be partners with Cacheris. He's also good friends with Robert Bennett, Clinton's lawyer in the Jones case...
That buddy system is important because it's perfectly legal for attorneys to keep one another informed about what their clients have told Starr's grand jury. Lewinsky's lawyers will want to stay up to date on what Starr has learned from other witnesses before his grand jury. "The fact that we can talk to each other if we need to is good," Cacheris told TIME. That makes it harder for Starr to intimidate Lewinsky with false threats or claims that he knows more than he does about what she and Clinton may have done. Last week Cacheris would...
...early April, Ginsburg, Lewinsky and some friends were treated to a free meal by a Washington restaurant, Legal Seafoods, that was hoping to score some publicity. But all was not well that night with lawyer and client. When Ginsburg joked to his tablemates that someday he would probably have his own show on CNN, Lewinsky snapped back, "Yeah, you'll have plenty of time when I fire...