Word: client
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...have been the most neatly buried nugget in all that John Dean said. In one brief paragraph of his 245-page testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities last week, Dean dropped an obscure reference to a client of Super-lawyer F. Lee Bailey's who "had an enormous amount of gold" to dispose of. As Dean told the story, the gold had come up during a luncheon conversation he had on March 22 with John Mitchell. What was Bailey up to, and how was Mitchell involved? The story behind Dean's fleeting remark lies...
Lawyers in or out of government enjoy a position of personal trust. The attorney-client privilege allows a client to confess to his lawyer without fearing that the lawyer can later be made to testify about their talks. Even this has been used to explain the actions of the Watergate lawyers. Whatever they did, the argument goes, was done for the President as client. That, too, is a poor justification. In a 1967 Virginia case, Attorney Richard Ryder took stolen money and a sawed-off shotgun from his client and stored them in his own safe-deposit...
...wrong." Part of the problem lies in the fact that on the one hand a lawyer as a counselor is expected to bring a detached and professional point of view to a case, and that on the other the lawyer as advocate is expected to represent his client's interest and vigorously advance it. It is true that flamboyant trial lawyers often use every legal means at their command to win a case for even a guilty man. Yet the balance in the Watergate affair apparently tipped disastrously in favor of excessive advocacy...
...certain impartiality is essential to the practice of law. If the man who tries to be his own lawyer has a fool for a client, then the lawyer who be comes his own client is not much better off. Some years ago Law Professor Monroe Freedman raised a storm by suggesting that a criminal-defense lawyer owed such complete allegiance to his client that he should balk at practically nothing, including even in some cases perjury. But this is closer to the no-holds-barred philosophy of war than to that of law. Professor Philip Kurland of the University...
...Nguyen Van Thieu, the president of South Vietnam. Like oil rising to the top of a sewer, Thieu floated to the top of the U.S. client regime in South Vietnam during a series of coups in the middle sixties. Upon reaching power, he consolidated his control, streamlining the repressive apparatus of the old Diem regime. Backed by the American government, Thieu has tossed tens of thousands of political prisoners into his teeming jails and done everything possible to subvert the January peace agreements...