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...rippled back from the front rows to the poor souls clutching binoculars in the cheapest seats: the lead guitarist was former Boz Scaggs Musician Les Dudek. So? So Les is well known among rock groupies as the latest man in the life of the ex-wife of Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman and ex-love of Gene Simmons of Kiss. So? So, looks aside, the chick was indeed the Rambling Rose. Yup, it was Cher...
Cher. Just Cher. No Bono, no Allman at the end. That is the way in which one-half of one of Hollywood's most successful husband and wife teams has legalized her name after two bad marriages. And that is the way she will be billed in a March 7 NBC special, Cher ... and Other Fantasies. The concept is weak, but her 31 costumes and 22 wigs are dizzying. She appears as a slithery snakess and in a bare-belly ensemble which makes Cher resemble Ms. Tutankhamun. But perhaps the best is one in which she lounges like...
Yeah...they come in and they ask me if they're going to have time on their own to do pro bono work, bail bond projects or whatever. I find a lot of fellows who are interested in doing something for individuals...more interested in doing that then they are in making money. When I got out of school in 1933 I think the accent was on making money...the hell with going out and doing pro bono stuff...
Many lawyers also devote time to clients who cannot pay. This is admirable, but not entirely altruistic; they are supposed to do so under the Code of Professional Responsibility. In the late 1960s, idealistic young lawyers persuaded blue chip firms to let them do pro bono publico work, representing indigents on the firms' time at their regular salaries. Moreover, small-town lawyers have long been known to dispense free legal advice or tear up the bill for a strapped client. And school and hospital boards are often populated with lawyers who in addition to getting known around town perform valuable...
...attract Pepsi-Cola to the New York firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose partly because as Vice President in 1959 he steered Nikita Khrushchev to the Pepsi kiosk in Moscow as photographers clicked away. Rainmakers can come up dry: ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark did so much free pro bono work that he lost money for his former New York firm...