Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Lawyer's Guild, instead of the American Bar Association, which opposed much of the New Deal legislation at the time. While many of the lawyers left the Guild for fear of being branded communist, Boudin stayed on. And he admits his decision to drop Chile as a client after the military coup this fall was more than just a coincidence...
...there is Boudin the careful attorney. When asked about a recent Harper's article which paints an unflattering picture of Ellsberg, his face clouds. "I'd never criticize a client...there are things I don't like about Ellsberg and there are undoubtably things he doesn't like about me. There are certain idiosvncracies he has, but he's a hero, and that's part of a person of heroic stature...
Unsure of himself and his field, such a lawyer often bogs courts down in otiose efforts to cover every unthought-of contingency; or, at the opposite extreme, he may sink a client's case by missing a critical point. After 42 years as a practicing lawyer and judge, Burger has sadly concluded that perhaps as many as one-half of all lawyers who appear in American courts are incompetent. Last week, in a speech at Fordham Law School, the Chief declared that it was high time special additional training and testing be required before a lawyer may call himself...
...still serving as Commerce Secretary or soon after he had resigned to head the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, was in touch with two others, including American Airlines, whose chief competitor, United Air Lines, happened to be a Kalmbach client. The sixth was visited by a lower-level fund raiser whose credentials were personally verified by John Mitchell, then serving as Attorney General. Not that Nixon's men had to get rough. George A. Spater, until recently the chairman of American Airlines, was courted by Kalmbach over dinner...
...only did the imperial powers plunder the material resources of their colonies, but, more significantly, the forced upon those colonies a social system tailored to their own interests, and not to the long-range interests of Third World people. The imperialists created local client elites, built factories and developed plantations, produced products and crops: all with the objective not of bettering the condition of the people, but of supplying the needs of the mother country. As the colonial societies became further mired in the slogh of stagnated development, Lenin realized they would never reach a level of balanced industrialism...