Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wharton School of Finance, ultimately earned both a business-school degree and an account executive's office at Ruthrauff & Ryan. At 28 he left a $25,000-a-year vice-presidency to form his own agency. Mahoney eventually disbanded the agency to become president of a top client, Good Humor Corp., left that for Colgate-Palmolive...
...jury to reach the same result? The answer had to come from Boston Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who was barely 21 at the time of Sheppard's first trial, and now, at 33, faced the tricky task of trying to beat a prosecution that had already convicted his client once...
...especially if he tells a new story. Armed with the first trial record, the prosecutor can trap him into contradictions. Yet if a defendant does not testify, the jury, despite all judicial admonitions, will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial and, fortunately for him, neither did Susan Hayes, the attractive lab technician who appeared at Ihe first trial and suggested a motive by admitting she had been Sheppard...
...clergyman can give counsel to the worst sinner, but when a lawyer gives counsel to someone who has had the condemnation of society, people say it's scocking," he adds. And he believes that the attorney should "exploit the law to the fullest benefit of his client" -- within the limits of integrity and the facts...
...avoiding any imputation of guilt. "People have come to accept me as representing all sorts of ideologies. Of course it has not always been that way, but after seeing me defend both Communists and right wingers, people can understand that it is not a matter of mutual beliefs between client and advocator," he says...