Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...agency called Fame. Its president is Jerry Masucci, 41, a onetime New York City policeman who made a fortune with the Fania record company. The Fords own one-third of Fame and handle the financial operations. Fame's first famous enlistee was Esme. Echoing the Casablancas philosophy, Lawyer Richard Talmadge, another part owner of Fame (and the Fords' attorney), notes that a model is "more than a pretty face selling a product." Says he: "A model is negotiated for now like an actor in a film series. A model today has almost the same importance to an advertiser...
...could live in a nursing home instead of her parents' mobile home, Rosado drastically reduced the award to $2,000 a month for life plus a $ 100,000 contingency fund. Each year the monthly payments will increase by $250. An appeal has been filed by Penny's lawyer, Sheldon Deutsch, who cites a report from a registered nurse stating that caring for Penny at home will cost $77,000 a year. As for Rosado's rationale, Deutsch says it is "like saying, 'If I hurt you badly enough, I won't have...
...have any idea what it's like to sit across the desk from a woman in tears, whose life has been destroyed, and ask her boiler-plate questions like her Social Security number." So says Don Hancock, 33, an Austin lawyer who handles divorces. His solution: three 30-min. video tapes in which Partner Eric Galton, 28, answers divorce questions posed by an actor portraying a client. The tapes not only cut down on emotional wear and tear but reduce damage to a client's pocketbook. Since Hancock needs to devote less time to the case, the average...
...ordered Tekere's arrest. The next morning, Chief Police Superintendent John Carse and other armed officers surrounded Tekere's heavily guarded estate in St. Martins, a suburb of Salisbury. They confiscated a load of weapons, and then engaged in a lengthy discussion with Tekere and his lawyer. At one point, Tekere strode jauntily over to share a joke with newsmen. Said he: "I'm just talking to my friends, the police. That...
...replies Gloria Allred, the feminist lawyer who prepared Bick and Becker's suit. "Restaurants are the last bastions of rituals having to do with rigid roles for men and women," says she. The priceless menu implies "that women will always be taken care of if they're with a man, and that we shouldn't be bothering our pretty little heads about the price of dinner." Another ritual that Allred abhors is having the man taste the wine, which "suggests that women can't appreciate fine wine." As the general manager of another stylish Los Angeles...