Word: client
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...last year he fired a law clerk reportedly for signing an antiwar petition. But his logical judicial reasoning commands the respect of both liberals and conservatives. He was a magna cum laude graduate of Yale and made a reputation as one of Washington's ablest trial lawyers. One client: former Communist Party Chief Earl Browder, indicted for contempt of Congress in 1950 and acquitted the next year...
...Player of the Year, to the Cleveland Indians, Woolf craftily advised the flamboyant outfielder to "retire," on the grounds that the move would jeopardize the Hawk's business interests in Boston. In a subsequent meeting with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Woolf worked out a "substantial compensation" for his client's supposed business losses. Harrelson promptly unretired. "When we went to New York," Woolf proudly explains, "the sport world didn't understand the importance of a star's activities off the field. When we left, they knew contracts no longer stopped at the stadium gate...
Liberal members were particularly frustrated in their attempts to pin Rehnquist down on his legal and social philosophy. Like Powell, Rehnquist refused to answer many such questions either on the grounds of lawyer-client privilege or the possibility that any such answer might compromise later opinions as a Supreme Court justice. As Bayh mournfully conceded: "I don't believe that you can keep a guy off the Supreme Court on the basis of hearsay." Indeed, though liberals will probably stage a Senate floor battle, it is likely that President Nixon's nominee will be confirmed...
...client is calling the possibility of illegal wiretapping to the attention of the court," Rabinowitz said yesterday. "The court should not compel her to assist in the commission of a crime...
Rabinowitz said that his client had "strong suspicions" of government wiretapping because of her close relationship with Daniel Ellsberg, "a man who is at the center of a controversy that is of national security importance...