Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principle of lawyer-client confidentiality be pushed? According to a ruling handed down in West Palm Beach, Fla., last week, in certain circumstances an attorney can even withhold his client's name. The odd case, which has stirred intense interest in legal circles, grows out of the death of Mark Baltes, a 28-year-old electrician killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1986. The driver was never caught, but the day after the accident, attorney Barry Krischer was visited by someone who would say only that he or she -- the gender has not been revealed -- may have been...
Under the typical curriculum for first-year students, moot court competition is a requirement. The mock trials are administered by upperclassmen who advise the new students on how to write and defend legal arguments...
This spring, one-quarter of Harvard Law School's entering class will be taught legal argument by Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60 and will participate in the mock trials during the course...
Nesson, who planned the curriculum experiment, said his new course, "Persuasive Expression," "is a straightforward attempt to teach legal argument and expression." Students will help the professor administer the course...
Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 said yesterday that he thinks the change in the first-year curriculum is "a great opportunity that meets many of the proposals and ideas students had for more feedback and [legal] writing...