Posted on 11/10/2011 6:14:56 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
I don’t like her either, but have you watched Allred in previous cases? She is a very effective vicious barracuda, right or wrong. Mr. Woods might draw back a bloody nub.
Anytime Allred gets involved its serious as a heart attack.
Allred describes her own experience as a single mother as formative - she gave birth to her daughter while still a student and split from her husband soon after. ‘When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn’t know where I was going in life,’ she says. ‘I was a single mother when my child was little. I was not legally required to take care of her. I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.’
Personal experiences played a large part in Allred’s decision to practise the kind of law she does - she has been a teenage bride, single mother, rape victim and double divorcee - seismic events she documents with matter-of-fact candour in her recent autobiography-cum-legal-advice book, Fight Back and Win.
‘I didn’t tell the authorities at the time because I didn’t think they’d believe an American girl against a well-known and respected doctor,’ Allred writes of the 1966 gunpoint rape in Mexico by a doctor who had asked her out for dinner.
Back in America she discovered she was pregnant and underwent an illegal abortion that almost killed her. She was rushed to hospital, haemorrhaging badly. ‘I remember one nurse saying, “This will teach you a lesson.”’
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG3361761/Gloria-Allred-the-equaliser.html
Born Gloria Rachel Bloom in Philadelphia to poor Jewish parents - a door-to-door salesman and his English wife - Allred met and married her first husband, Peyton Bray, at university. By 19 she was pregnant. Then she discovered her husband had bipolar disorder (he later committed suicide) and they were divorced before she graduated. Back at home with her parents, Allred took Bray to court for child support. He was eventually jailed for non-payment.
Later, after a masters degree in education, she became a teacher and moved to the Los Angeles black ghetto of Watts a year after the 1965 riots. Aged 30, she began studying law and working voluntarily for the National Organization for Women, meeting rape victims who had been too scared to speak out.
By now she was married to her second husband, the businessman William Allred, and in 1976 founded Allred, Maroko & Goldberg with two fellow law graduates. They focused on civil rights, discrimination cases and family law. ‘At the time I didn’t know anyone willing to be called a feminist attorney,’ she says. ‘But I insisted on the term because I felt it was important for people to get a positive connotation of the word.’
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG3361761/Gloria-Allred-the-equaliser.html
Thanks for your reply - I did intend my questions to be serious ones. As a manager I received sexual harassment training many times, and everything I saw from Ms. Bialek seemed contradictory. There should be serious consequences when it happens, but false charges should be treated the same way.
Allred's other client, Rachael whats her name who was with golfer Woods, entered a addiction clinic afterward with Dr Drew. I actually liked the woman. Her life went bad after her finacee died on 9/11 in the Towers. Same with "Can't we all get along"-Rodney King who entered treatment as well. Both were pretty soft spoken individuals --just was a bad time in their lives with the media becoming judge and jury as they got caught up in high profile situations.
Allred's newest client may need treatment herself-time will tell.
Yet she remains a polarising figure, given her track record of both the laudable and the joke-worthy. To her critics she’s an exhibitionist who not so much tackles as manufactures injustices - such as the time she sued the Boy Scouts for not admitting girls, accusing them of ‘gender apartheid’ - and relies heavily on trial by public opinion.
Her showy tactics - marches, sit-ins, fasts - have also come under fire. But they have often won results. In 1981 she presented a chastity belt to a senator who was an anti-abortion campaigner at a televised public hearing. ( He later claimed he had been ‘molested by a slick, butch lawyeress’.
Allred successfully sued for libel.) In 1987, representing a woman denied entry to a men-only private members club, she famously strode into the steam room with a tape measure, singing Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is?
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG3361761/Gloria-Allred-the-equaliser.html
Methinks you are skirting a zot FRiend... (FR used quite loosely).
Born in Philadelphia to poor parents who had only eighth-grade educations, Allred attended the University of Pennsylvania, marrying a fellow student her sophomore year. Peyton Bray, her blue-blooded husband, became abusive and had a mental breakdown, and by the time Allred was a senior, she was a divorced single mother. Bray, who suffered from bipolar disorder, eventually committed suicide, and their daughter took her mother’s maiden name.
Allred’s second marriage lasted longer — she wed businessman William Allred in 1968 and they divorced in 1987 — but when asked if she might ever remarry, she retorts, “Why would I do that?”
But Allred is a doting mother and grandmother, and she is proud of Bloom, a divorced attorney, mother of two, and legal analyst for CNN and CBS News. Often asked what it was like to grow up as Gloria Allred’s daughter, Bloom always answers with one word: “Empowering.”
Read more: Interview with Gloria Allred - Lawyer Gloria Allred Interview - Harper’s BAZAAR
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/gloria-allred-0610
What's black and tan and looks good on a lawyer?
A Doberman.
Clearly, you haven't done your homework on Woods. The only nub here is yours.
As it should be. You do not have the intelligence required to make a voting decision. Best you stay home...and learn how to spell.
There was a report on FR a day or two ago that a Ras Poll showed “women” were jumping off the Cain Train BIG TIME.
Regardless of the money or his standing prior to the Primaries, loosing women voters is not the way to get nominated.
Rape is a different matter.
I doubt many women [men] can say they have not been hit on by a family friend, business associate, client etc
The training classes just protect the company in awareness, social responsibility needed to protect themselves in describing themselves as a safe and happy workplace.
I dont see where it says women are jumping off the Cain Train. Perhaps I missed it.
Women jumped on the Clinton train afterward his BJ, it appeared--the stars seem to line up.--one I remember was the star in Sex in the City's, Kim Cattrall. There seem to be always a smiling star in his midst.
There are financial supporters riding long term, then just daily commuters who are just that. How can anyone tell..really?
Right, I have seen that he’s had one high profile case, Jewell. Heck Edwards was the Best in his field too.
My point is that Allred should never be poopooed even though she almost always looks hair-brained on TV. She is effective! I am not saying she is right or her clients are right, just EFFECTIVE and mean as a striped spider.
There won’t be any law suits, that would be the worst for Cain no matter the final outcome. The last thing he needs is to keep this BS out front for months and months. Allred WILL do just that unless Cain can come up with real proof.
Not the same report I saw here on a Ras Poll. Wish I had Bmarked it.
Also if you read the entire Ras posting you linked it showes 51% think not nin Cain’s favor regarding the allegations.
I still assume he did not do something stupid, but what I think or anyone here thinks, there can be a great difference between pre-Primary polling and political junky support and actual Primary votes.
I love this Lin Wood and want him to represent me if I ....well, I don’t know what I might need to hire him for..but if I do, I want him in my corner.
You. have. no. clue.
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