William H Ginsburg

In "Any Method to Ginsburg's Madness?" (Opinion, March 14), Stephen Gillers attacks Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William H. Ginsburg, for making statements concerning his client. Gillers asserts that anything an attorney says during representation of a client can later be admitted in evidence against that client. As experienced criminal defense attorneys, we can say wholeheartedly that the only "madness" here is in Gillers' statement of law. The out-of-court statements of an attorney are no more admissible against a client than anybody else's out-of-court statements.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a novelist and screenwriter whose long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions yielded two Academy Awards for her work on the films “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” has died. She was 85. Jhabvala died early Wednesday at her home in Manhattan after a long illness, said her daughter Firoza. A prolific author, Jhabvala (pronounced JOB-vah-lah ) wrote 19 novels and short-story collections that reflected the cultures she absorbed on three continents during her half-century career.

Some key dates in a frenzy over presidential sex and lies: July 4, 1997: The Drudge Report leaks word that Michael Isikoff of Newsweekis working on a story about President Clinton and Kathleen Willey, a former White House volunteer. Jan. 17, 1998: The Drudge Report says that Newsweek has decided to hold the publication of a story on Clinton and Monica S. Lewinsky. Jan. 21, 1998: Jackie Judd breaks the story of Lewinsky by reporting iton ABC's radio network at 12:45 a.m. EDT.

State medical investigators have accused a former San Fernando doctor of gross negligence and incompetence for failing to detect prostate cancer in a retired postal supervisor who committed suicide after his disease reached an advanced stage. The Medical Board of California wants to revoke or suspend Dr. Amor F. Pierce's physician's license for his treatment of the 75-year-old postal worker, who shot himself in the head at his Pacoima home in September, 1990.

A giddy mix of embarrassment and thrill often emerges when people confront taboos. And that's what's happening with all the below-the-Beltway talk about Bill Clinton. Americans are titillated by the ubiquitous discussion of a young woman's claim that she had sex with the president. For a week now, people have been gabbing about sex the way they used to discuss the weather. The stuff of blue jokes and comics is right out there at bridge games with the Sanka and pound cake.

A federal judge is preparing to rule on an extraordinary effort by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to obtain notes, case files and even diary entries of Monica S. Lewinsky's former lawyer. Despite the legal privilege that normally protects the confidentiality of communications between attorneys and their clients, Starr also is seeking potentially to question the lawyer, Francis D. Carter, before a federal grand jury. It was Carter who helped prepare the affidavit Lewinsky signed on Jan.

Less than a week after taking over the defense of their high-profile client, lawyers for former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky conferred for several hours on Tuesday with top deputies of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. The session indicates that both Starr's office and Lewinsky's newly hired lawyers--Jacob A. Stein and Plato Cacheris--are quickly identifying what it will take to complete an immunity deal, according to lawyers familiar with the matter.