Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer as ethics hearings on the legislator's relations with a male prostitute are expected to get under way this week...
Washington attorney Stephen Sachs, a former U.S. attorney in Baltimore and a former Maryland attorney general, said yesterday that his job as Frank's lawyer before the House Ethics Committee will be to separate fact from fiction...
...veto some appointments. Two weeks ago, conservatives torpedoed M. Caldwell Butler, the White House's tentative choice to be chairman of the Legal Services Corporation. But Butler's future dimmed when the former Virginia Congressman told a group of conservatives that he would not stop a Legal Services lawyer from suing a hospital that refused to provide a Medicaid abortion. The group complained to chief of staff John Sununu, who backed away from the nomination...
...advise clients on how and where to advertise for potential birth mothers. Pictures of perplexed young women appear in ads on buses and in buildings throughout Illinois. Sample copy: "Pregnant? Scared? Are you ready to be a single parent?" For those who are not, the ad refers clients to lawyer Lawrence Raphael ("He Cares") and even provides a toll-free number...
...more parents strike out on their own or with private brokers, some professionals fear that standards and safeguards are slipping. "Adoptive parents won't blink an eyelash over paying $20,000 to $30,000 for a healthy white baby," says family lawyer Samuel Totaro of Trevose, Pa. "This business can be a license to steal." William Pierce, president of the National Committee for Adoption and a militant defender of traditional adoption practices, argues that abuses have multiplied as formal agencies have lost control of the process. "One couple I know adopted twins through a lawyer," says Pierce. "After several weeks...