Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year students take a class titled, "Legal Reasoning and Analysis," in which they learn how to perform legal research, write legal documents, and present oral arguments. The class has two components. The first component is a lecture series presented by guest speakers among the faculty. The second component is a 12-student workshop taught by a member of the Board of Student Advisers who is a second- or third-year law student...
...Stephen Jones is a ferociously intelligent trial lawyer," says Mimi Wesson, a professor of criminal law at the University of Colorado and a former U.S. Attorney in Denver from 1980 to 1982. "I have read some of his briefs in the McVeigh case, and there is some very fine legal work...
...worst of a lot of bad options. The Gingriches could have taken out a bank loan, but there aren't any banks unaffected by legislation before Congress. The couple could have borrowed against another book advance, but then the book contract might look like a bribe. A legal defense fund, paid for by private citizens, was ruled out for an obvious reason: Why remind the public again that the rich protect the powerful...
...defendants without a scientific basis," and Roger Martz, the chief of the chemistry-toxicology unit, who "improperly deviated from...protocol in his examination of some specimens." But Inspector General Michael Bromwich's study goes on to cite other cases that have the potential for coming undone in the legal system--or at least becoming embarrassing footnotes for the already red-faced bureau. Among them...
...favor with the White House for appointing special counsels four times to investigate Administration scandals. The Clinton team let her dangle for weeks before deciding to keep her as Attorney General. Now her enemies say she is trying to regain favor. Friends say she's a principled legal purist. Just about everybody says that, for better or worse, she's blind to appearances. What she fails to see is that public confidence requires an investigation conducted well beyond White House reach...