Not just a labor lawyer: weakened protections for labor call for activism and extralegal tactics

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New general counsel of the AFL-CIO Jonathan P. Hiatt wants to form stronger ties to individual union lawyers and engage more in organizing, public relations, and politics. He replaces appellate expert Laurence S. Gold and fits well with a new leadership vision of union growth and activism. Hiatt wants to support unions' controversial pressure tactics and pursue laws he considers friendly to workers, similar to the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. He also plans to build the AFL-CIO legal dept from two to eight full-time lawyers.

United States, Management, Practice, Labor law, AFL-CIO, Hiatt, Jonathan P.

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Will 'The Firm' further hurt bar's image?

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John Grisham is a very popular lawyer-turned-novelist whose book 'The Firm' has been turned into a motion picture. The legal community is not worried that lawyers' image will become lower as a result of a movie depicting a firm providing legal services for the Mafia, stating that the public's opinion of lawyers cannot get any worse. Lawyers also state that Grisham's heroes do not worry them since they are so far removed from reality.

Attorneys, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Authorship, Grisham, John, The Firm (Motion picture)

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Hot beach reads 1992: law firm whodunits by lawyer-novelists

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Mystery stories featuring lawyers are a growing subgenre, and the lawyer-writers who write them come from all walks of the profession. The growing popularity of this subgenre may be due to several factors, including Americans' strong interest in the workings of the law, the resurgent popularity of the mystery genre, and the extra room in the market left by the death of the spy novel, which faded with the end of the cold war.

Analysis, Writers, Attorneys as authors, Detective and mystery stories, Detective fiction, Mystery fiction

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