Word: client
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...rare tribute to a victorious opponent, Attorney John J. Wilson called James Neal, the chief U.S. prosecutor in the Watergate conspiracy case, "the greatest lawyer I ever saw in a courtroom." Wilson's client, H.R. Haldeman, and three of the four other Watergate defendants were convicted at least in part because of Neal's awesome command of the facts in the case and his ability to summarize complex events in a persuasive Tennessee drawl. After his courtroom triumph, Neal, 45, was eager to return to his private practice: "I'm going to catch the first flight back...
...held against it. In many ways, Equus is simply a good old-fashioned play; Dysart is not too unlike the detective who solves a crime because that's his job but wonders whether he was right to turn the man in; not too unlike the lawyer who gets a client acquitted who might really have committed the crime; not too unlike the doctor who saves the life of a patient who might be better off dead...
Addressing the Watergate jury last week, Defense Lawyer William Prates virtually conceded that the best hope for his client, John Ehrlichman, was that one or two jurors might hold out for acquittal and thereby produce a hung jury. As the arguments finally ended on the trial's 61st day and the panel awaited only Federal Judge John J. Sirica's instructions, the Government had drawn its case tightly around each of the five defendants. So effective had been the final summation by Chief Prosecutor James Neal that Prates warned the jury against being swayed "by the silver tongue...
...orchestrating some pretty strange tunes." But Hundley contended that "it is obvious that John Mitchell was not one of the boys in that band." Though Neal had referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned a rhetorical instrument...
...family," he says. "My home is where the radio towers are." Bennett's success is not entirely the result of his wily stunts, of course. He haunts record stores and pop concerts, and studiously keeps one hip ahead of ever-changing adolescent argot. He is also, as one client station's program manager notes, a "maniac" about listening to his listeners. At Bennett's current home tower at Minneapolis station KDWB, for instance, he has installed 12 telephone lines on which two staffers take up to 5,000 calls a day. Bennett contends that he has turned...