Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Very well." Our reassured client leaned forward in his seat, fingering a curious device in his lapel that resembled nothing so much as an American flag. "You know about the taped conversation between the Head of State and one of his former advisers. You know that the erasures were done not once but from five to nine times...
...lead did not seem particularly awry: the whole thrust of Goldwater's remarks on the program had been singularly favorable to Nixon. O'Brien's story moved not only on the Post's presses but also over the wires of its news service to 225 client papers...
...When you discriminate against overweight people, you may end up with mediocrity. One client said he didn't want anybody who was from Brooklyn...
...Nixon had been unhappy with his defense team's work; White House aides went so far as to criticize Buzhardt publicly. The prospect of that happening to him does not bother St. Clair, who declares: "I assume that's the risk any lawyer runs in representing any client...
Lawyerly Lapses. For all the varied transgressions of Watergate, the principal gripe filed against lawyers is neglect of a client's case. And that can often be easily remedied by a telephone call from a local bar association. The offense that most often leads to discipline is also all too unexceptional: stealing a client's money. One Illinois lawyer who gave clients worthless checks and improper shares of personal-injury settlements was disbarred after the state supreme court determined that his actions amounted to misappropriation of funds. Attitudes toward offenses often vary. Tax evasion, for example, prompts little...