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In the early 1950s, Mr. Coblentz worked for then-Attorney General Pat Brown. When Brown became governor, Mr. Coblentz served as his special counsel.
Mr. Coblentz's ability to deal with everyone, from high-flying developers and nationally known politicians to rock stars and college students, sprang from a genuine love of people, said his daughter, Wendy Coblentz.
Brosnahan became intrigued with the law when he was a boy watching the Army- McCarthy hearings on TV. A jock through college, Brosnahan says that it was the competitiveness of trial work that drew him in. Yet, Brosnahan's manner is of wit and charm. Someone once called him "avuncular, with an edge.".
Marc Van Der Hout almost doesn't need to read the newspaper to find out what's happening in the world. Foreign policy, international politics, domestic economic trends - the human repercussions often end up at his San Francisco office.
Today, Sonsini , 62, heads Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the firm he joined on the cusp of the technology revolution. Only now, the firm's a powerhouse. Officially, Sonsini specializes in securities and in mergers and acquisitions. Unofficially, he's the Godfather of Silicon Valley.
John Keker, 59, is a trial lawyer. Not a criminal lawyer or a corporate lawyer or any other label you try to give him. He does trials. That's it. And don't even think of calling him a "litigator.". "Litigators are people who sit around in a conference room," says Keker. "Trial lawyers go to court. That's what I do.".
Self-defenestration or autodefenestration is the act of jumping, propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window. This phenomenon played a notable role in such events as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, and other disasters. In December 1840, Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window in a political maneuver designed to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank. During the Revolutions of 1848, an agitated crowd forced their way into the town hall in Cologne and two city councillors panicked and jumped out of the window; one of them broke both his legs. The event went down in the city's history as the "Cologne Defenestration".
In 1452, King James II of Scotland murdered William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, with his own hands and defenestrated him at Stirling Castle. On April 26, 1478, after the failure of the " Pazzi conspiracy " to murder the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de' Medici, Jacopo de' Pazzi was defenestrated.
Defenestration (from Modern Latin fenestra ), is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War.
The first time, his legs were broken as a result of the 12-metre (40-foot) fall from the ramparts of Agra Fort but he remained alive. Akbar, in a rare act of cruelty probably exacerbated by his anger at the loss of his favorite general, ordered his defenestration a second time, killing him.
On the morning of December 1, 1640, in Lisbon, a group of supporters of the Duke of Braganza party found Miguel de Vasconcelos, the hated Portuguese Secretary of State of the Habsburg Philip III, hidden in a closet, killed him and defenestrated him. His corpse was left to the public outrage.
On April 15, 1966, two suspects in the so-called Bathroom Coup in Sri Lanka, Corporal Tilekawardene and L. V. Podiappuhamy (otherwise known as Dodampe Mudalali), were said by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to have jumped to their deaths from the fourth floor of the CID building in the Fort.
The text indicates that Eutychus ultimately survived . ( Acts 20:6–12) It has been suggested by several chronicles (notably the Annals of Westhide Abbey) that King John killed his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, by defenestration from the castle at Rouen, France, in 1203.