Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Authentic Pastor. He is primarily Bishop of Rome. But as a universal pastor, he should be neither an administrator nor a general secretary, not a lawyer, diplomat or bureaucrat. He should be a pastor, a man in the service of men not institutions, a leader resolved not to rule but to serve...
Marvin E. Lewis, 71, is a flamboyant trial lawyer famous in San Francisco courts for winning highly unusual personal injury cases. He once persuaded a jury to award $50,000 to a woman who claimed that the trauma of a cable-car crash had turned her into a nymphomaniac. But never did Lewis come up with a more novel argument-or one with more profound implications-than in the case of Olivia Niemi...
...defense, enter a famous lawyer of a different sort: Floyd Abrams, 42, a precise Yale law graduate well known for his frequent appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court in First Amendment cases. Holding television liable for inspiring violent crimes, argued Abrams, would make showing Shakespeare and the evening news risky...
Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where someone could slip on it, should pay damages to the victim. Constitutional Lawyer Abrams, on the other hand, argued that his clients should be held liable only if the network actually intended to cause attacks like the one on Niemi...
...earnest-looking man in a conservative suit comes on the television screen. No, he is not the fellow from H & R Block offering you another way to save tax dollars or even a used-car salesman trying to appear sincere. He is a lawyer, offering you a good price for a divorce, a will or a suit of almost any kind...