Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel differs from, more than it resembles the American involvement in Viet Nam. Democratic Israel is not a divided and apathetic people, authoritatively ruled, reluctant to fight its own battles. It does not ask for American soldiers. It is not quite an ally; in some respects it is a client, but it is in no sense a puppet...
Since he has coast-to-coast legal troubles, it is no surprise that former Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman has coast-to-coast lawyers. In Washington, his attorney is crusty, conservative John J. Wilson, 72, who took some of the heat off his client by lecturing Senate Watergate probers as if they were first-year law students. In Los Angeles, where Ehrlichman is charged with perjury and complicity in the office break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he has retained equally feisty Joseph A. Ball, 70. But Ball is no conservative; his selection by Ehrlichman is eloquent testimony...
...West Coast case. "Hell," he says, "I wouldn't be able to shave in the morning if I refused to defend Ehrlichman." He intends to defend vigorously. When TIME Correspondent Leo Janos asked Ball about the case, the attorney was not the least bit reticent: "My client is innocent. Ehrlichman should never have been indicted in the first place. A key question concerns asportation-to steal, take, carry away. By God, tell me what was stolen in this case. Nothing. What was the object of the entry? Who gave those young men the orders to break in? These...
...California Supreme Court when Brown was Governor, Ball decided that he preferred the style and combat of a trial lawyer. Though he loves a fight, he never pushes, as one judge puts it, with "foolish, unnecessary objections." Nor will he tolerate unethical behavior. He once had a doctor client who had performed a criminal abortion and wanted to testify that he had never seen the woman involved. Ball refused to let the doctor lie on the witness stand-but got him acquitted anyway. "Look," he says, "I'm neither judge nor jury. My job is to provide the best...
...White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt, almost surely acting at Nixon's behest, had secretly initiated plea-bargaining sessions between Agnew's lawyers and Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his top aides. From the outset, the overriding goal of Agnew's lawyers had been to keep their client from going to jail. Held in the huge, red-carpeted room just outside Richardson's office, the bargaining sessions were long and heated, the men often shouting at each other as they maneuvered for a settlement. Even Richardson, a very proper Bostonian who normally keeps himself under control, raised...