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Take asbestos litigation, currently the hottest field for zealous lawyers. Though asbestos products have been removed from circulation for decades, and notwithstanding the fact that most sick patients filed lawsuits against corporations decades ago, there are currently more than 200,000 asbestos cases awaiting trial nationwide. Fortune magazine estimates that total damages could eventually top $200 billion. To put that in context, last year total corporate profits were only $767 billion, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. That means that one type of lawsuit, filed against a small minority of firms, could wipe out more than 25 percent...
...Zealous advocate, meet zealous advocate...
...outraged this week when federal prosecutors charged her with conspiring to help her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, convicted for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, pass prison messages to outside terrorist groups. While Stewart has declared herself "emphatically" not guilty of the charges, she sees zealous representation of clients as a calling, not a crime...
...deal with improper lawyering that are less intrusive to traditional lawyer-client confidentiality than Ashcroft's approach. If new rules are needed to prevent new threats, America should frame such measures democratically, in a process that involves the legislature, the courts, and the people. In that process those zealous for liberty can be heard alongside those zealous for security...
Most New Yorkers can only dream of living as well as JERRY SEINFELD's cars. Many Manhattan residents recoil at the thought of keeping even one car in a city with a dearth of parking spots and an abundance of zealous meter readers. But Seinfeld, who can safely be called a car enthusiast, owns 20 Porsches, which he likes to keep near his Upper West Side apartment. With an excess of time, money and nurturing instincts, he decided to build the cars their own three-story garage three blocks from his residence. Construction on the project began...