Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Appealing for a more leniency, Lawsonemphasized his client's potential and previouslyuntarnished record...
Pressed further, Sandler refused to say whetherHarrop occupied the house following the eviction."That's attorney-client privilege," he said...
...argues his own case, goes the lawyer's bromide, has a fool for a client. But if a client is truly a fool--or, worse than that, is insane--then no folksy admonition will stop him, and neither, at least in the Ferguson trial's first week, would his presiding judge...
That best was impressive. Impeccably dressed as ever in dark blue, striped shirt and bold red-and-blue tie, Cochran sought to strike an immediate rapport with the jury. Spinning stories, addressing jurors like a loquacious, well-loved uncle, Cochran spoke confidently of his client's innocence, reeled out his favorite saying from Martin Luther King Jr.-- ``Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere''--and insisted that ``this case is about an obsession to win at any cost and by any means necessary...
...good friend had asked for Cochran's legal assistance, and the lawyer agonized over taking the case. Cochran says what finally made up his mind was his sense of justice--a sense honed perhaps more on one particular loss than on all his dramatic victories. In 1972 Cochran's client, Elmer (``Geronimo'') Pratt, a Black Panther accused of murdering a white schoolteacher, was sent to prison for life; 23 years later, Cochran still maintains that Pratt was framed by the FBI, and is still fighting for his release. ``It taught me that you can work within the system and believe...