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Sanus Inc. Bets the Company on the Blame-the-Moms Defense
March 1, 1984
The American Lawyer
Editor’s Note: The people and events referred to in this story are fictitious. It was written in 1984 as part of a special issue imagining what the legal world might look like in 2009. Tilton Coleman looked drained as he took his seat after an eloquent 90-minute closing. He had projected his usual cool confidence to the jury, in U.S. district court in Los Angeles. But his clients and partners,...
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Ethics and The Law: A Case History
January 9, 1983
The New York Times Sunday Magazine
In a third-floor corridor of the Federal District Court on Manhattan's Foley Square, one afternoon last month, a tall, bespectacled man looking no more than his 36 years stood talking with friends, nervously drawing on a cigarette. Myron S. Goodman had, over the course of the 1970's, been the mastermind behind the meteoric growth of the multimillion-dollar O.P.M. Leasing Services Inc. He had...
Legal Ethics
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Too Much Justice
September 1, 1982
Harper's
I believe that justice was done. Justice is a process, not a particular result. - Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard law professor, commenting on the jury verdict finding John W. Hinckley, Jr., not guilty by reason of insanity when he shot President Reagan. I do not think nobody knows what was within his head that day. - Woodrow Johnson, parking-lot attendant, one of the Hinckley jurors, commenting on...
Terrorism
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Indians on the Lawpath
April 30, 1977
The New Republic
After a rash of headline-grabbing but soon forgotten appeals to the nation's conscience, like the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969-1970 and the Wounded Knee uprising in 1973, the leaders of America's impoverished and neglected Indian tribes have turned to a less spectacular but more productive way of improving their meagre lot: smart lawyers. Landowners and local governments throughout the...
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