Word: client
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...statement to the Associated Press on March 9, Fisher's lawyer Patrick Hallinan said the state had "overcharged" his client...
...vast conspiracy that held her prisoner in a cage of lies inside this country's system of justice. Some call it schizoid;, she just calls it getting by, since her career as a singularly dedicated lawyer was effectively ended by her conviction for colluding with a con-artist client to subvert her profession and violate the law. She spent years in prison after refusing to testify against this con man and only began to speak of the gross injustice Because this peculiar, intractable lawyer is the heroine of Janet Malcolm's new journalistic essay, The Crime of Sheila McGough...
...ingenious con schemes bring the text to life, and because Sheila McGough refuses to admit any wrong doing at the expense of either herself or her client, Malcolm finds her obstinate, even infuriating. Always self-analyzing, Malcolm emphasizes this dramatic battle between journalist and subject even as she elevates McGough as a compelling heroine. With a twinkle in her eye, Malcolm writes: "I don't know if I've ever had a more irritating subject...I have never before interrupted, lost patience with, spoken so unpleasantly to a subject as I have to Sheila...
Marciano's advice to recruitees? Study up on your firms and their clients before interviewing. He also favor consulting and commerical banking over I-banking. In the last, he says, "You don't learn anything about a client dropping the keys to their warehouse on your desk and telling you they can't make the next payment." Got all that? Good...
...Groth's watch, nearly a dozen psychics have been arrested on charges ranging from fortunetelling, a selectively enforced misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail, to grand larceny, a felony. One clairvoyant allegedly convinced a client that rubbing her body with raw eggs and bathing in special potions would lift a curse. The cost of that exorcism? About $500,000. A similarly inventive psychic encouraged an undercover cop to buy 90 candles, at $55 each, to fend off evil spirits...