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Archibald Cox '34, professor of Law, told the conference that the lawyer in government gets a much broader view of the law than does the private practitioner because he has no private client to whom he is responsible...
...hard-working in his profession, he had a trick of preparing his brief, then preparing an opposing brief just to test and sharpen the arguments he would use in court. A spellbinder before juries, he won the celebrated alienation-of-affection suit known as Woodhouse v. Woodhouse. For his client, a lowly soap salesman's daughter wooed and won, then spurned, by the son of one of Vermont's wealthiest, haughtiest families, Austin wangled a record jury award: $465,000, a high price for affection-especially in Vermont. (The judge cut it down...
Under sharp questioning by grey, stooped Defense Attorney William Chan-ler-who described his client as a man who had sown his "mental wild oats" in his youth but had long since reformed-she admitted that neither she nor Remington had been "orthodox Communists." They had associated with Trotskyites, had not held party cards, had paid dues only irregularly. But she stuck stoutly to her story that she had frequently been along, as driver of the car, when Elizabeth Bentley and Remington met in Washington. On such occasions, she testified, she parked in various quiet spots, heard her husband...
Hamilton, court-appointed and serving without pay, spoke for three hours, making a plea for pity and understanding of his client. He described Gold as the "most selfless man I have ever met in my entire life." He characterized him as a man who had often borrowed money from loan agencies to lend to fellow employees in need. He said that Gold had received no money from Russia, had entered the Soviet web believing that he was helping an ally. After that "he was entrapped...
...Chelsea, Mass, court, a lawyer argued that his bookmaker client was helping to save the U.S. from Communism by contributing "to the equalization of the democratic way of life by letting poor people place small bets...