Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience of the four ex-Law School professors has been slightly less academic than Bell's. Abram Chayes, who has served as Legal Counsel to the State Department since 1961, has been deeply involved in several key foreign policy issues throughout his stay in Washington. "There is nothing that doesn't have legal aspects," says Chayes, who has dealt with problems ranging from, the Cuban crisis and the Moscow test-ban treaty to the first international piracy case in 100 years--the hijacking of the Santa Maria from Portugal in 1961. He has worked on the thorny legal questions...
Before he came to Washington, Chayes taught courses in corporation law and civil procedure. To deal with international problems, he has had to "draw on reserves of legal judgment;" his task is made much easier, he says, by the staff of 60 lawyers which works under him. "One learns one's job almost too quickly here, since governmental work is all consuming. The job lasts all day. Politics is discussed during working hours, during social events, and is even the spice of gossip...
While working on the legal problems of the Moscow treaty, Chayes was in constant contact with John McNaughton, who has the parallel post of General Counsel to the Department of Defense. McNaughton has been in the job since July 1962. Before that, he was deputy assistant secretary for arms control under Paul Nitze, dealing with Berlin crisis matters. Now, as the chief legal advisor to the Pentagon, McNaughton spends about half his time on "the charter responsibilities of the job"--the purely legal questions of defense matters--and the other half on special assignments...
Despite their adaptibility, however, lawyers have trouble keeping up on their law once they come to Washington. Surrey hasn't read a case "for quite awhile," and he lets his large staff handle the technical questions. At the Law School, his opinions on legal questions were quite consistant. In Washington, Surrey has had to consider political feasibility, a consideration which squashed many of the hopes he had for major tax reform in the present Congressional session...
...loser's pocketbook. Only a few weeks ago, a New York appeals court lopped nearly $3,000,000 from the $3,500,000 libel verdict won in July 1962 by Radio-TV Entertainer John Henry Faulk. While he was waiting for the latest verdict, Faulk's legal costs grew to the point where Attorney Louis Nizer claims they already outrun the $550,000 of the award...