Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilmot helped organize Democratic fundraising dinners in the mid-1970s, when Robert Strauss headed the Democratic National Committee and funneled legal work on his aviation and real estate interests to Strauss's Dallas law firm. When Strauss left the board of Columbia Pictures to join the Carter Administration last year, Wilmot took Strauss's seat...
Behavior inside these prisons was scandalous and unchecked. In the 1540s, while headmaster of Eton, Nicholas Udall was convicted of sodomy. He was later released from prison-and made headmaster of Westminster. Discipline was ferocious and sometimes fatal. An 18th century legal tract noted: "Where a schoolmaster, in correcting his scholar, happens to occasion his death, if in such correction he is so barbarous as to exceed all bounds of moderation, he is at least guilty of manslaughter." Dr. John Keate, a notorious Eton headmaster from 1809 to 1834, once publicly flogged 100 students in a single afternoon...
...idea of peddling legal services over the tube between deodorant and beer ads is enough to make many lawyers wince. Advertising was banned by bar associations as "unprofessional" until last year, when the Supreme Court struck down that prohibition as unconstitutional. The American Bar Association immediately went along as far as newspaper, magazine and radio ads were concerned but held off on TV. Last week, as some 10,000 lawyers met in New York City for the association's annual convention, that obstacle fell away too. By a vote of 141 to 69, the A.B.A.'s House...
...debate at the A.B.A. Convention, however, was heated. Quoting from Thomas Jefferson's diary reference to "soliciting pettifoggers," Joe Stamper of Antlers, Okla., urged his fellow lawyers not to "equate legal services with soap and breakfast foods." But Roger Brosnahan, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Commission on Advertising, argued that "television advertising is not abused where it is permitted. The purpose of legal advertising is not to enhance the incomes of lawyers but to inform the public...
Well, it probably will wind up doing both. Long accustomed to serving the small percentage of the population that can afford high legal fees, the profession -glutted with new lawyers-is slowly entering an age of providing mass legal services and charging less for them. Advertising on TV and elsewhere will no doubt speed up that process...