Exercises to the text. I. Give Russian equivalents to the following phrases from the text:

I. Give Russian equivalents to the following phrases from the text:

to be married to…, to be born, to move to, to study law, to teach law, to come at the top in the bar exams, to represent claimants, to take cases against government, London School of Economics, the Polytechnic of Central London, the Open University.

II. Translate the text.

III. Give English equivalents to the following phrases:

Судебная система Англии и Уэльса, бывший премьер-министр, британский барристер, изучать право, стать королевским советником, специализироваться в чём-либо, представлять истцов, присуждать почётную степень доктора.

IV. Make up possible questions to the following answers:

1. In Bury in 1954.

2. Liverpool.

3. Law.

4. The Polytechnic of Central London.

5. The former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair.

6. Three sons and one daughter.

7. In 1976.

8. Queen’s Counsel.

9. Employment, discrimination and public law.

10. In July 1999.

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Clarence Darrow Biography

At the peak of his career in the 1920s, Clarence Darrow was the most famous trial lawyer in the United States.

Clarence Darrow was born in rural northeastern Ohio on April 18, 1857. He was the son of Amirus Darrow and Emily (Eddy) Darrow. Both the Darrow and the Eddy farms had deep roots in colonial New England, and several of Darrow's ancestors served in the American Revolution. Clarence attended Allegheny College and the University of Michigan Law School but did not graduate from either institution. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878. Settling in Chicago, Illinois in 1888 he worked as the corporate counsel for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. In 1894 he switched sides and resigned from the railroad to represent union leader Eugene Debs, who had been indicted in a conspiracy case. For the rest of his career, Darrow was known as a champion of the underdog, nationally famous for his strident opposition to capital punishment and as the defense counsel in two of the biggest trials of the period: the murder trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (1924), and the so-called " Monkey Trial" of John Scopes, a schoolteacher barred from teaching evolution (1925). Darrow's oratorical skills and quick wit made him famous in and out of the courtroom, and he was a hero in intellectual circles for his progressive politics. He retired from regular practice in 1927 to devote his time to lecturing on law, social issues and religion.

Vocabulary to the text

Сareer [ ] – карьера, успех, занятие, профессия

Ancestor [ ] – предшественник, предок

Trial [ ] – (юр.) судебное разбирательство; судебный процесс, суд