Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indicating that he is about to return to Poland and sell an additional 150 lbs. or so of copied documents he still has stashed away. On Oct. 15, Harper is arrested; it is only two days later that Attorney Dougherty learns from the FBI the real name of his client...
...caress on the clenched hands of his diminutive companion. "We're going on," he murmurs. The woman in red whispers back in the stage argot of her generation: "Break a leg, David." Alexis Caydom, a TV makeup specialist retained for the occasion, makes one more pass at his client's high cheekbones, then retreats. All is ready for Nancy Reagan to record a minor "first" in the history of First Lady crusades...
Tanaka's lawyers posted bail of $1.2 million and then, after nearly five hours before the judge, their illustrious client returned home. But Tanaka's day in court was not over. His lawyers immediately filed an appeal to the Tokyo High Court; if he is found guilty there, Tanaka can still bring his case to the country's Supreme Court. The entire appeals process could take ten years; meanwhile, Tanaka, 65, will remain free on bail...
...surrounded by the barbed wire of Arab hostility, the Palestinians' passion to reclaim their homeland, the passion of one woman for justice and a fair measure of self-respect. Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh) is an American Jew who has come to Israel to practice law. Her first major client, a young Palestinian (Muhamad Bakri) caught sneaking into Israel, is attempting to secure legal right to the house he lived in as a boy. Prodded by her estranged husband (Jean Yanne) and provoked by the state prosecutor (Gabriel Byrne), by whom she has become pregnant, Hanna stands her ground...
...avoid problems, some buyers hire outside consultants to advise them on purchases. New York Lawyer Esther Schacter actually tore up a contract a client was poised to sign. Says she: "The worst thing a user can do is to rely solely on the seller." That is a lesson used-car buyers learned a long time...