Word: trubek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...villains in such melodramatic language. "The Chief Justice has a lot of important and valid comments," concedes David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, "but it is absoutely inexcusable to use phrases such as 'procurers' and 'hired guns.' " Indeed, says David Trubek, professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, the average lawyer is nothing like the person Burger describes. "The Chief Justice calls up an image of a public ready to sue at the slightest provocation, assisted by greedy lawyers and abetted by incompetent judges," says Trubek. "This is a fallacy...