Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What matters to lawyers, in addition, is the effectiveness of the expert's presentation to the jury. Not all experts, to be sure, will have the shock value of the legendary Perry W. Fattig of Atlanta. A shy entomologist, Fattig practically made a second profession of taking the stand...
"Mother cried at the wedding," read a Monocle entry in "The Diary of Happy Rockefeller." "A man in the back pew sobbed too. I found out later he was Thruston Morton." When Astronaut John Glenn announced for the U.S. Senate, Monocle proposed "the John Glenn Foundation, devoted to subsidizing needy...
Nonetheless, at a midyear meeting of the 53-year-old National Association of Women Lawyers a fortnight ago in Chicago, delegates agreed that the talented, determined woman has greater opportunity in the law than ever before. More women are becoming interested in the law as a profession. Law schools have...
Troopers' Tongues. At the top of the profession, the law school professorships and law-firm partnerships are still largely closed to women. Yet Lawyer Soia Mentschikoff, 49, has achieved both. She was made a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm in 1944, taught law at Harvard from...
Many Portias admit with a touch of asperity that they are often overpraised by men for a performance that would be regarded as merely competent in another male. "Women are not expected to have any sense," shrugs Jewel Rogers Lafontant, a statuesque, beautiful Chicago criminal lawyer whose father and grandfather...