Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...assure an orderly transition with the White House," Hodsoll, a lawyer and former State Department official who worked with Baker during Reagan's campaign, said last night. He said the group had thus far made no firm recommendations...
...revealing of the man and his methods. He has entrusted the talent hunt to old friends with whom he feels comfortable and has given them a great deal of leeway. In Reagan's eyes, Smith is the ideal man to head such a committee. A successful Los Angeles lawyer-he could become Attorney General-Smith is respected by his peers for his intelligence and integrity, and for his ability to stand up to Reagan, when need be. A man who has served on dozens of corporate, educational and cultural boards, Smith is such an Establishment figure in California that...
With prosperity, Nolo has moved to larger quarters in a converted clock factory but retains its raffish, blue-jeans style. The staff, which works amid cantaloupe-crate bookshelves and suspended Chinese kites, has expanded to 17 (including an artist-lawyer, an anthropologist, and the stand-in for Toshiro Mifune in the TV series Shogun). To keep pace with changing laws, they regularly issue updated editions, and recently published a sort of Whole Earth Catalog of the law called The People's Law Review...
...graders or professionals," says Paul Hasse, 26, a Rhodes Scholar and the founder of Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT) in Washington, B.C. HALT'S guides are aimed at readers between those extremes. In contrast to Nolo, only one member of HALT'S nine-member staff is a lawyer. Supported by $15-a-year dues from 30,000 members, the two-year-old group devotes considerable time to lobbying for legal reforms and lambasting the profession in its newsletter...
...Many lawyers feel the same way about the competence of self-helping laymen. Most would agree that certain procedures, like changing a name, are simple enough for people to handle on their own. But when it comes to more complicated matters, their views are still summed up in an old proverb: "He that pleads his own cause has a fool for his client." Says San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli: "If you can take out your own tonsils and deliver your own child, then you shouldn't be concerned about going to court without the aid of a lawyer...