Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court should supervise the fee. The court should know just how the lawyer got his case. (Ethically the client should go to the lawyer, not the lawyer chase the client...
...court should know just how the lawyer got his case. (Ethically the client should go to the lawyer, not the lawyer chase the client...
...lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies. But his client, Patterson, knew...
...court room." Continuing, he suggested that Mrs. de Luca should move out of the Negro neighborhood in which she lives, that she was unfortunate in her choice of counsel. The "atmosphere of a United States Court is novel to him." Then he climaxed: "Your client is now on her way to jail. Do you want to go along with...
...captor and his wives, vicious harpies who neatly carved out eyes, skinned off lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king and you big mans stop we trade, and s'pose dat true, what we do? ... We law is, s'pose some of we child go bad and we no can sell...