Lawyers, other folk, what do y'all think of the NLG?

Well, not really a legal issue, but LNG really is the only way to transport natural gas from the Middle East to the places that need it. Oh, sorry, didn't read your post all the way to the bottom. Was never a member. Most of my work was patent or environmental related. So most of my clients probably would not have appreciated me being a member and might have fueled suspicions that I was not the vigorous advocate they wanted. But I think that I was at least sympathic to some of the positions the NLG took and that made me a better advocate. For example, once when I was doing a walk through of a facility that contained a number of above ground storage tanks, an agency lawyer was complaining that coal tar should not be stored in these tank because of risk of leaks and contaminated groundwater. I reminded him that he might want to run that argument past his collegues who regulated underground storage tanks because the UST regulations required them to be thickly coated in coal tar before being buried. He gave his "Don't be a smart-ass" look.
 
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THIS is why I'm curious...

The Charlotte Observer, June 10, 1954: https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?...20&height=1222&crop=63_0_4805_7166&rotation=0




The Army–McCarthy hearings were held in 1954 to investigate competing accusations between Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy and the U.S. Army: McCarthy claimed the Army was harboring communists, while the Army charged that McCarthy and his staff had improperly pressured it for special treatment of an associate. Televised nationwide, the hearings became a turning point in public opinion. The Army’s defense was led by attorney Joseph N. Welch, whose calm but forceful responses—including his famous rebuke of McCarthy—helped undermine the senator’s credibility, while McCarthy relied heavily on his chief counsel Roy Cohn and aide David Schine (preferential assignments, leave, and privileges to David Schine during his military service); together, the proceedings exposed McCarthy’s methods and contributed to his political downfall.



On The National Lawyer's Guild (The "Communist Front" organization to which Fred Fisher, a member of the law firm Hale and Door that represented the U.S. Army in the McCarthy-Army Hearings), from 1987: THE LAW; At the Bar (Published 1987)






"Have You No Decency?" | McCarthy | American Experience | PBS (5:46)​

 
donbosco said:
THIS is why I'm curious...

The Charlotte Observer, June 10, 1954: https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?...20&height=1222&crop=63_0_4805_7166&rotation=0




The Army–McCarthy hearings were held in 1954 to investigate competing accusations between Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy and the U.S. Army: McCarthy claimed the Army was harboring communists, while the Army charged that McCarthy and his staff had improperly pressured it for special treatment of an associate. Televised nationwide, the hearings became a turning point in public opinion. The Army’s defense was led by attorney Joseph N. Welch, whose calm but forceful responses—including his famous rebuke of McCarthy—helped undermine the senator’s credibility, while McCarthy relied heavily on his chief counsel Roy Cohn and aide David Schine (preferential assignments, leave, and privileges to David Schine during his military service); together, the proceedings exposed McCarthy’s methods and contributed to his political downfall.



On The National Lawyer's Guild (The "Communist Front" organization to which Fred Fisher, a member of the law firm Hale and Door that represented the U.S. Army in the McCarthy-Army Hearings), from 1987: THE LAW; At the Bar (Published 1987)






"Have You No Decency?" | McCarthy | American Experience | PBS (5:46)​

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DonBosco, I admire your restraint in not commenting on the speculations about the nature of the relationship between Roy Cohn and David Schine. Well done! That sort of shaming no longer has a place in political discussions.
ETA: Sadly, I have not yet developed your ability to avoid adolescent homophobic comments.
 
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