Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate will disfavor their client. Then the trial begins, when jurors face complicated testimony and evidence that judges and lawyers do little to help them understand...
...interested in academics, you're interested in teaching." Ring said. "The business market is more client-oriented, while teaching allows you more flexibility to do your own research...
Smith said his client was detained and then pushed, injuring his back and forcing him to miss work for a time...
...people to put Simpson to death." Adds Laurie Levenson, professor of law at Loyola Marymount University: "You would have heard Johnnie Cochran up there every time saying, 'He's fighting for his life.' " Cochran's colleague Shapiro announced simply that he had not addressed the committee, since his innocent client expects to face no penalties whatsoever...
...Lion King, Clear and Present Danger. The Client, Natural Born Killers, Wolf, Barcelona. Eat Drink Man Woman (go see director Ang Lee's earler film, The Wedding Banquet, for a good movie about modern conflicts in Taiwanese culture), Sirens, and Kika...