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Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, 51, is feisty, charming and -as Watergate defendants go-lucky. Although he apparently committed perjury before a Senate committee when he denied that presidential pressure was brought to bear on him in his handling of the ITT antitrust case (the White House tapes later revealed...
Inexcusable Violation. "The failure to testify fully and accurately," said the board, "constituted an inexcusable violation of Respondent's professional and public responsibility... It is our firm conviction that Respondent knew that he was failing to tell the 'whole truth' and, indeed, that he deliberately misled the committee. If [parts of his testimony are to be] characterized as 'justifiable evasion,' it is difficult to perceive what Respondent would consider 'unjustifiable' evasion ... In our view, Respondent has engaged in reprehensible conduct in violation of the Code of Professional Responsibility by testifying dishonestly before...
"You're getting a divorce?" "No, my client is." "You're the secretary?" "No, I'm the lawyer." "You're the lawyer?" This recent exchange between an incredulous judge and Lucia Fakonas, 23, a third-year student at Harvard Law School, demonstrates the struggle of women...
California's practicing attorneys are not likely to hoot too loudly at the oncoming generation: they may eventually be taking a similar test themselves. The state bar's board of governors has already approved in principle a requirement that California lawyers take 60 hours of refresher courses on...
Captain Raib Avers and eight ragged black and mulatto crewmen set out from Grand Cayman Island to hunt turtles in the southwest Caribbean. Their ship is the Lillias Eden, a once proud schooner now yoked to brand-new twin diesel engines in its converted cargo hold. Avers' legendary temper...