Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...lawyer for the tenants, Saul Schapiro, said last night his clients have not decided whether to appeal the ruling. The three tenants remaining in the apartment house were unavailable for comment last night...
Wheeler and her tutor, who was acting as her lawyer, were guided through several locked doors before entering the pent-house board room of CRR. The proceedings that followed, she says, "confirmed what everybody else had been saying about CRR--that it was a kangaroo court." She sat before a panel of committee members, the table between them covered with photographs...
Despite their success, neither man is in business to lose money, and both were appalled at their problems with Starsky and Hutch, a shoot-'em-up centered on two offbeat policemen. Their lawyer, William Hayes, 59, repeatedly asked ABC to help them out. ABC made additional payments, and then refused to give another dollar. According to the D.A.'s report, Hayes says that former ABC Vice President George Reeves told him: "No, I can't help you. Don't even come ask me, because everybody here has had it up to their ears with Starsky...
...Lawyer Martin is asking $6 million for, among other things, the damage done to her reputation when she was fired. There is also the prospect that action might be brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is examining the possibility that ABC has violated obligations to its stockholders with its casual accounting procedures...
Whenever possible, Smith, a veteran Washington lawyer, tempers his cold analysis with a human touch or an anecdote. He recalls how the Soviet negotiators once entertained their American counterparts with a World War II epic, considerately censoring a scene with an unflattering depiction of Allen Dulles...