Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Vanderbilt's Heard: "Fifteen years ago we did not have a lawyer on the staff. Now we have three full-time attorneys and a heavy outside legal bill." Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, adds: "Every time the Federal Government comes up with a bright idea for a new regulation it helps run our costs up through the ceiling." Hesburgh, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, joins many of his peers in criticizing the federal push toward minority faculty hiring: "There are so few that we end up bidding against...
...Grateful divorcees have been known to reward Mitchelson well: in one 1974 case that was worth $13 million to his client, Mitchelson got a fee of $1.25 million. The son of a schoolteacher and a building contractor, Mitchelson won a football scholarship to the University of Oregon, got his legal training at Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles, and started out specializing in criminal and personal injury cases. He first gained attention in 1963 by winning a major right-to-counsel case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mitchelson's fame as a divorce lawyer-and his reputation...
After that decision, some legal experts warned that the present Med School admissions policy might not conform to the new law. Many students, however, had argued that abolition of the minority subcommittee would damage recruitment of minorities at the school...
...have to advise King on legal matters, though I don't know what these might be from day to day. Basically, I have to keep the governor from getting into inextricable legal problems," Lynch said...
...leading attorneys, Mark Harrison and Gary Nelson. Harrison, the one-time president of the Arizona Bar Association and a special counsel to the state Attorney General, was exposed by the IRE team for trying to set up an organized prostitution ring in Phoenix to service the state's legal community. Nelson, a friend and former law partner of Harrison's and at the time the state Attorney General, allegedly tipped off his friend Harrison about a police investigation of the call-girl ring. Soon after, according to the IRE series, the police investigation of Harrison abruptly stopped; when the case...