Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last April, Picault helped Bario set up a raid in Mexico City that netted 33 lbs. of Colombian cocaine. Bario turned in 22 lbs. to the DEA, but let Picault keep the rest. Bario insisted later to his second wife and his lawyer that he was following standard procedure, allowing an informant to have some confiscated cocaine as a bonus to keep him loyal...
...undercover work. Or it may have been some of the traffickers against whom Bario was moving, allegedly including high Latin American officials. Some DEA officials might also have had reason to want Bario dead, if his trial were to expose illegal acts by certain agents. Says his lawyer: "He had an abiding fear of his own agency, although I have no evidence the DEA did anything to make this happen." The attending physician says there may be a more innocent explanation: "He may have choked on his sandwich." He adds, however, "But I don't think...
...Lawyer Martin Lipton...
...recalls, "Joe got four seats on the board and we got four seats." Their first big tender fight was the $84 million Colt (Flom) takeover of Garlock (Lipton) where the term "Saturday Night Special" was coined to describe Colt's lightning raid. It is impossible to estimate which lawyer has a better winning record because even when one loses he usually gains some advantages-in price or terms-for his client...
...give-and-take that most are worked out with assistance from mediation and reconciliation centers. The Los Angeles Conciliation Court and other divorce counselors estimate that 15% to 20% of their cases now end in joint custody. That percentage is likely to grow. Predicts Susan Whicher, a Boulder, Colo., lawyer who heads the American Bar Association's special committee on joint custody: "Legally it's terrifying for a lot of lawyers and judges, but by the end of the 1980s it will be the rule rather than the exception...