Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just broke the 1,000 mark. Many of the behemoths are run by nonattorney managers who operate like corporate chiefs, drumming up sales and plotting growth strategies. Says Richard Santagati, the onetime head of NYNEX who now oversees Boston's Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett: "Everything has accelerated -- salaries, overhead, client fees, the stakes and the risks...
Many practitioners praise the changed environment for making firms more responsive to client needs. And while the "white shoe" partnerships of the past may have been more above the fray, they also discriminated against women and non-Wasps. "It was the good old days for some people but not for others," says Skadden, Arps Managing Director Earle Yaffa. "Now there's an emphasis on talent." So much emphasis that the competition for top law students has driven starting pay to above $70,000 a year in some places. But to earn their keep, new associates are expected to rack...
...guests of honor are three odd couples: Sammy (Ayub Khan Din), a Pakistani-born accountant, and his American photographer client Anna (Wendy Gazelle); Rosie (Frances Barber), Sammy's wife, a "downwardly mobile" English social worker, and her beau of the evening Danny (Roland Gift), a young black; and Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), Sammy's father, and his old flame Alice (Claire Bloom), a romantic Englishwoman. Is that all clear? No? Don't worry; these lives are not meant to be sorted out. Like real relationships, they are messy, incendiary, lingering past the pleasure point. Kureishi's women can be doctrinaire...
Deaver's attorneys will argue that their client, who visited the White House frequently, could not recall those conversations because they were insignificant. His memory was also hazy, the lawyers may argue, because Deaver was in an alcoholic fog both at the time of the meetings and when he testified...
...defense, though many believe it could be used to win some leniency for Deaver in sentencing. "This defense has been frequently used and has almost never been successful," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "It's a defense of the last resort." Explains Lawyer Michael Kennedy, who cited his client's drug dependency in unsuccessfully appealing for a new murder trial for Schoolmistress Jean Harris: "Juries tend to look at addiction as something for which you must bear the responsibility. Therefore they are disinclined to let people off the hook...