Word: client
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...attorney, Somerville lawyer Thomas August, said yesterday. "My understanding of the case is that my client committed a technical violation; there was no mens rea [criminal intent] present...
...should be," he said. He added that there was "no question in his mind" that there were political overtones behind the placement of the trial in a criminal court. "The Grand Jury no longer provides a protection of the citizen against the state," he said, citing his client's inability to appear on his own behalf before the month-long election inquest...
...Spain and Denmark, would hardly have ranked as a celebrated coupling had not Housen contracted gonorrhea. When doctors told Housen that she probably could not have children as a result, she sued Duke in his home state of Wyoming. Housen's lawyer, Gerry Spence of Casper, cites his client's courage: "Imagine having the guts to come to a little Wyoming courtroom and cut away the shame and the stigma of the disease, and to say in effect for the first time in American jurisprudence that we can bring matters of this nature out into the open...
...someone to go in there and knock heads," says Messersmith. "If an athlete who has been pampered ever since he was a kid is inserted into a heavy business situation, he gets chewed up." Like many other stars, Messersmith negotiates through an agent, Herb Osmond, who enables his client to confine his pitching to the field...
...this new climate, the largest agencies generally have managed to maintain their relative shares of client dollars; J. Walter Thompson, the doyen of the agency business, clung to its No. 1 position last year with $900 million in worldwide billings, followed by aggressive Young & Rubicam with $800 million and McCann-Erickson with $775 million. But in an era of uncertainty, even Thompson's primacy is no longer as secure as it once was. The agency now ranks second behind Y & R in U.S. billings and second to McCann-Erickson in foreign volume, though ahead of both in combined...