Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forbes paled. The starch apparently melted out of rotund Mr. Thompson. The maximum penalty is two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Mr. Forbes' attorney at once made a motion for a new trial. James Hamilton Lewis told his client that he would carry the case to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the defendants remain at liberty on $10,000 bail...
...Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana to awaken echos that had just been stirred by his other fellow lawyer, John W. Davis...
...much education, in his early twenties made his way to Chicago. There he studied law at night; became the partner of Governor Altgeld. His first important murder case was as defender, in the 90's, of the youth Prendergast, who had killed Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago. His client in this instance was hanged, but Darrow's defense was characterized by no less an observer than Brand Whitlock as the "most eloquent appeal for mercy that he had ever heard...
...have practised law for many years. I do not go to a client and say: 'Are you guilty? Are you innocent?' I would not say it to you. Every man on earth is both guilty and innocent. I know it. You may not know it, but I know it. I find a man in trouble. In a way his troubles may have come by his own fault. In a way they did not. He did not give himself birth. He did not make his own brain. He is not responsible for his ideas. He is the product...
...time have I confined my services to a single client, and in consequence I have been called upon to serve a great many different kinds of men&#!51;some of them good, some of them indifferently good, and others over whose character we will drop the veil of charity. Indeed, some of my clients, thanks perhaps to their failure to secure a better lawyer, have become the involuntary guests for fixed terms of the Nation and the State...