Word: lawyering
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...remember that when I first met Jim,” Ed says, “he had just moved in and I was moving in behind him and I was blown away by his amazing stereo system.” Now a lawyer in Wyoming, he is reserved but friendly: after being thanked for agreeing to an interview, he says, “Oh, you bet. Hold on just a minute while I shut my door.” Ed played alto sax in the Harvard Band, becoming drill master senior year...
...parsing candidates' rhetoric and tapping those who will do the people's bidding. In this district, as in other regions where distrust of government runs deep, the congregation is growing. "People need to understand that whoever you vote for, these guys work for you," says Dion Richardson, a Lynchburg lawyer. "They're not rock stars. That's your employee. He's no different than the guy that cuts your grass." See pictures of members of the Tea Party movement...
...through law school by working as an escort. The point Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and main writer, was making with this plotline was that Laurie’s chosen method of financing her education had little to do with her intelligence or abilities as a lawyer. But when a White House staffer was caught with her, it almost detonated both his career and fictional President Bartlet?...
...corporate lawyer with a degree in financial markets, Navalny has spent the past three years snapping up small stakes in publicly traded state-owned companies, many of which have senior government officials on their boards. Public listings provide these firms with crucial capital and international legitimacy, but in exchange, they're forced to adhere to a modicum of transparency that is absent from Russian politics. This is where Navalny comes in. Exploiting his status as a part owner, he harasses senior management with questions about how their actions may be affecting the bottom line. "All you need is one share...
...investors solve their problems quietly, this everyman, without status or power, is trying to fight the system," the paper wrote of Navalny. Sergei Guriev, dean of Moscow's New Economic School and an independent board member of Sberbank, a state-owned company in which Navalny has stock, says the lawyer's focus is a logical avenue of dissent for politically minded young people who are unable to crack into Russia's rigidly controlled political landscape. "His generation of opposition politicians has been denied a career in politics," he says. "They may have to wait 20 years. So he has taken...