Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unforeseen effects. For one, "restrictions on the evidence available agafnst the guilty make the guilty-and the innocent look more alike." Today a guilty man is often convicted only because he hires a bad lawyer who cannot keep pace with liberalizing Supreme Court decisions that could well spring his client...
...services made available by for example, a union or club as a benefit of membership. But the A.B.A. code of ethics bars them, on the ground that "the professional services of a lawyer should not be controlled or exploited by any lay agency, personal or corporate, which intervenes between client and lawyer." In a convention debate, backers of such services pointed out that they would make legal assistance possible for people who could not otherwise fully afford it. Replied Pennsylvania Attorney Andrew Hourigan Jr., chairman of the A.B.A. committee on unauthorized practice of law: "Simply because group legal services might...
...quick temper," soon had all the commissions he could handle. The Boston Daily Advertiser praised him because "his views are always correct, seeming like the present reality of the thing represented." His literalness appealed to Boston's practical Yankees, and until 1840, when he dropped from sight, his client roster included virtually every merchant family in Boston...
...proved that three or more of the alleged victims were German agents and that some of them were still alive. But though Floriot won professional respect for his tenacious defense, Petiot went to the guillotine. Floriot went too-in France, the lawyer traditionally takes the last walk with his client...
...Draft Resistance Group can offer free legal assistance. Victor Rabinovitz, a prominent left-wing lawyer, has agreed to send up a man from his firm, Mungo says, whenever a client of the Group faces trial. So far, two have been put on trial for refusing induction and one of them has already been sent to jail...