Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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After Jimmy was elected President, he turned management of the business over to Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo. Says a friend of Billy's: "That really hurt Billy because the whole world was calling him incompetent. He's never forgiven Jimmy...
...October afternoon in 1978, Lawyer Paul Morantz reached into the mailbox of his Los Angeles home and suddenly felt a sharp pain. He pulled back his hand-and with it a 4½-ft. diamond-back rattlesnake, its fangs embedded near his thumb. A tourniquet applied by a quick-thinking neighbor saved the lawyer's life...
...little to break it." That plan has focused recently on efforts by a Stevens business associate, American Entrepreneur Maurice Templesman, to help Sierra Leone get financing from the World Bank for an ambitious deep diamond-mining venture. A sometime escort of Jackie Onassis, Templesman has hired New York Lawyer Theodore Sorensen, once the chief speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, to represent his interests. In Freetown, it is widely suspected that Stevens takes his cut of his country's dealings with De Beers. That rumor may have prompted the angry remark of one black nationalist leader at the recent summit...
...opinions. Even when the Justices agreed on the outcome of a case, they often disagreed about the reasoning that should lead up to it. In four critical cases handed down during its final week, the court splintered into 22 separate concurring and dissenting opinions. Such diversity, says Justice Department Lawyer Bruce Fein, "gives relatively little guidance to state and federal courts, elected officials or the private sector. It makes for an uneven application...
...last fall a lawyer for the oil industry stood before the Supreme Court and urged the nine robed Justices to throw out a federal regulation limiting the amount of dangerous benzene vapor permitted in the workplace. Justice John Paul Stevens, the newest member of the court, leaned forward and put it squarely to the attorney: "If you win this case, isn't it true that some people may die as a result?" It was a typically pointed question from Stevens, but as befits a man renowned for his skill at the bridge table, he did not tip his hand...