Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what evidence is too sensitive to be admitted in court. Wilson, who was being held on $20 million bail in a Washington-area jail, refused to enter a plea at his arraignment hearing Friday. His attorney, John Keats, instead argued that he needed two weeks to investigate whether his client had been illegally apprehended. Judge John Pratt denied the request and entered a plea of not guilty on Wilson's behalf. Keats hinted that the Government might be greatly embarrassed if it presses its case. Said he: "We're at the start of a great adventure...
Once again, U.S. foreign policy was on the defensive. Israel's bold strike into Lebanon last week broadcast an embarrassing message to the world: Washington was either powerless to restrain its headstrong Middle East client or tacitly approved of the military operation. It was a no-win diplomatic situation that raised serious questions about U.S. policy and leadership at the very moment when President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig were on a European tour that was intended to burnish the Administration's image abroad. Even the cease-fire that took effect at week...
James St. Clair, 62, Nixon's chief defense lawyer. Working under great handicap of his client's lies, he lost battle to protect tapes. Practices law in Boston, teaches part-time at Harvard...
...office reaches out over much of New England. It takes on about 45,000 cases a year, involving $20 million, and recovers about 20% to 30%, of which it may keep as much as 50%. Once Golditch has "captivated" his quarry, he proposes various forms of payment to his client-like a new credit-card loan, or a co-signed bank note. "I will never advise anyone to incur debt they can't handle," he says, "but I have a moral commitment to work out an equitable agreement...
...over the U.S. and deals with about 110,000 cases a year. Its method is very simple: it makes the insolvent debtor give up all his credit cards and promise not to do any more borrowing without permission. Then it works out a survival budget that will enable the client to pay back part of his debt every month. It persuades the creditors to wait for their money and then assumes responsibility for dividing and distributing the repayment it gets from the debtor...