Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profession. Thatcher's plan calls for abolishing the traditional division between solicitors, who deal directly with the public, and barristers, who must be "instructed" by solicitors before taking on a case and who have a virtual monopoly on presenting cases in high court. Under the government's proposal, any lawyer would be free to present cases in court after obtaining a "certificate of competence." Many consumer-interest groups and solicitors cheered the plan, while barristers promised to fight...
When the Harvard Corporation this week appointed its first woman member, Washington lawyer Judith Richards Hope, many called the event an important milestone in the University's history...
Hope, 48, has had a distinguished career as a lawyer specializing in transportation issues. She first entered politics as an advisor to the Ford Administration, and has since served as co-chair of Lawyers for Reagan/Bush in 1984 and as general counsel to the 1988 presidential campaign of Sen. Robert Dole...
Zachary says his mother's career has been marked by a desire for public service, a desire rooted in her decision at the age of 12 to become a lawyer...
...grandfather was up against some opponents who were trying to take away his practice and his role as a religious figure," he says. "My mother always resented that aggression. She always wanted to be a lawyer so that she could set things straight and protect people...