Word: professional
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Dan Quayle, it might be said, put his ironies in the fire when he took on the entire legal profession in his A.B.A. speech. What is curious about this newly minted legal critic is not that the Vice President is a lawyer by training but that hitherto he has always...
Raised in the suburbs and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Geoghegan, 42, could easily have turned out to be like others of his generation, wanting, as he says, to go into real estate and cappuccino. Instead he ended up as a labor lawyer in Chicago, working for outfits like...
But legitimate habeas corpus petitions have been crucial to death-row inmates whose lawyers, many of them lacking experience in complex capital cases, often miss crucial issues at the trial level. Some 40% of all death sentences are overturned because a federal judge agrees there was some constitutional error in...
A. I am very disheartened by the public perception of politicians not having the public welfare at heart because I absolutely believe politics is an honorable profession. I wish more people would see politicians as public servants, because that's what they are.
Wyatt has a writer's sensibility, but Humphreys was wise to make him a lawyer. The profession symbolizes convention, respectability and decorum. Were her protagonist a writer, expectedly musing at the beach, no one would bother with him. There would be no lovely Louise, former girlfriend and wife of his...