Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost. "Every cheap architect could copy Mies," says Johnson. "He could go to the client and say, I can do a building cheaper than I did it for you last year, because now I have a religion. We have a flat roof and simple factory-made curtain walls. It was a justification for cheapness that took over our cityscapes, and that is what you see in New York today." The universal glass box, cut-rate Mies (for real Mies was real architecture, and too expensively finished for most developers to tolerate), would cover any function: airport, bank, office block, church...
...causing cholesterol, or suing Jim Beam for giving cirrhosis of the liver?"...[In the current case] what I'm trying to do is prove to a jury that cigarettes do cause cancer, period. Then if people want to smoke, it's up to them...I don't think my client had any choice, I think she was addicted...
Bailey's a damn good lawyer, but he did a lousy job...just execrable...It's pretty hard to sue a lawyer for malpractice, for an error in judgement...He made the worst mistake in the world when he got into a spitting contest with his client; a lawyer never can win that. There are some things people won't forgive you for saying about your former client. But he's one of the best in the country...
...your most interesting client...
...wanted to do all criminal work. Then when I got out of law school, I saw that criminal work was dangerous...The things lawyers had to do to survive, you were just on the same level as the criminal, and you'd end up in the bucket with your client...