Word: nizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They first met when they joined the Manhattan law firm of Phillips & Nizer (now Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim). Benjamin had worked his way through the College of the City of New York and Fordham Law School; Krim was a Columbia Phi Beta Kappa and editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review. They specialized in accounts in the entertainment field, became so well known that in 1951 United Artists came to Krim for help...
...Counsel Charles Henry argued that the verdict should be set aside because the award was excessive in view of the token compensatory damages. One of the troubles, he implied, was that Pegler's rambunctious courtroom manner had a poor effect on the jury. Replied Reynolds' attorney, Louis Nizer: "In a day when [reckless] extremities of certain writers have caused a serious problem, [we require] just such a lesson...
Hard Bargain. As a last resort, Partners Pickford and Chaplin turned to a lawyer named Arthur Krim, now 42, whose New York firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim specialized in movie litigation. Krim had attended Columbia Law School, edited its law review, graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) at the top of his class in 1932, and gone immediately into law practice During World War II, Krim, commissioned a lieutenant colonel, served as assistant to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. At war's end, Krim was named president of Railroader Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion Films...
...Tightwad! Next day Eleanor heaved an answering pie, a press release given out by the office of her lawyer, Louis Nizer.* Said Eleanor: "Those who have dealt with Mr. Rose throughout the years well know whether it is his clenched fist on a dollar or my alleged avarice which is responsible for the impasse . . . If he wants to find his real enemy, he need only look in the mirror . . . His present offer not to use his fraudulent affidavit, which has already been filed and communicated to all sorts of people, is like the act of a man who shoots somebody...
...this, Rose mockingly turned the other cheek. Said he: "Let's make everybody happy. I fully concede that Eleanor is the finest woman since Florence Nightingale; that Wes Bernie is a road-company Joan of Arc; that Louis Nizer, Eleanor's attorney, is president of the Sweet Fellows Club; that Alberta Jones has astigmatism, and it must have been three other people. And finally that Billy Rose has horns and hooves and ought to be ground up for hamburger...