Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starts out innocently enough. After his date stands him up, Walter is desperately seeking someone sensational to attend a business dinner with him. His boss warns him in advance that the evening is for a Japanese client who keeps several concubines in addition to a slavish wife, and who has extremely conservative attitudes toward women. Even though his sleazy car dealer brother-in-law has set him up on more than one date with disaster, Walter is assured that Nadia (Kim Basinger), a Southern tart who's new to town, will be different...
...allergy to alcohol, the tiniest bit of champagne completely uninhibits prim Kim and turns her into nasty Nadia. She undoes the floral arrangement, curses at the waiter in French, trips the pockets off all the men's jackets ("It's the new style," she exclaims), and convinces the Japanese client's obsequious Geisha Doll of a wife to leave him and claim the 50% of the property she's entitled to by California law. Walter is not pleased...
...runs the office of legal adviser, a prestigious but traditionally little known department of some 100 lawyers that serves as principal counsel to the Secretary of State on matters of international law. To some observers, Sofaer has done no more than would be expected of an attorney serving his client -- even if that client is a policymaking arm of the U.S. Government. "Abe Sofaer is a great New York lawyer," Governor Mario Cuomo told a breakfast group. "If they tell him 'Make it legal, Abe,' he'll make it legal." Sofaer refuses to get caught in a law-vs.-policy...
...addition, the Marine Corps charges that Lonetree provided Soviet agents with the floor plans of the U.S. embassy in Vienna. Lonetree's lawyer says his client will "absolutely deny these allegations...
...aggressive Jefferies built a reputation for going to extraordinary lengths for his clients. In one of the charges, the Government accuses Jefferies of purporting to own $56 million worth of stocks that had actually been bought by a client, Boesky. In this illegal practice, called parking, Jefferies was allegedly holding the stock to cover up the identity of Boesky as the real owner. The scheme enabled Boesky to control more stock than was permissible under the Government regulation...