Word: client
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fawzi is widely accounted a scholarly and able lawyer, but like many another attorney for a gangster client, he sometimes has to serve as a mere mouthpiece...
...Tort. In London, attempting to point up the "rather monotonous English style in legal documents," the Law Society's Gazette printed a letter written by an Indian lawyer to a client: "Dear Sir, Unless you pay the rupees within seven days, we shall take such steps as will cause you the utmost damned astonishment...
...rosily predicted the land would make a handsome profit, despite the fact that the State Health Department refuses to approve its water facilities. The hearing over, he climbed from the witness chair to prepare for a return appearance this week in his old role as counsel. Fitzgerald's client of the week: Old Pal James Riddle Hoffa, who once informed his buddy: "You're only my mouthpiece. I'll tell you when to talk...
...owner of a gas station that they will protect him from broken windows and sugar in his gas for $200 a year, and the owner asks his lawyer whether he should pay. "We have here," said Mulder, "a neat issue of trying to serve the interests of the client and at the same time trying to ... uphold the law. As a practical matter, he cannot look to law enforcement agencies to protect him against the hoodlums." Therefore, Attorney Mulder concluded, "a policy of expediency can be morally justified"-that is, the owner may pay, if he will also...
...asked, "that the Christian lawyer all his life is sentenced to living with an anguished conscience?" Replied Lawyer Mulder: "Yes, I am . . .1 feel a sense of despair at what can happen to his spirit as he tries to balance the obligations to the moral law and to his client...