Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court at high noon, the President's body man isn't likely to sing the tune Starr wants to hear just yet. The reason? The Secret Service agent is now expected to claim that any conversations he overheard between the President and Bruce Lindsey are protected by attorney-client privilege. And that means the Justice Department is passing the baton back to the White House. "It will become strictly an attorney/client privilege fight now," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. That's why Starr wanted Cockell, a plainclothesman, in the first place: Cockell is presumed to have overheard Clinton...
...them live in places where guns are available. Says Tom Furth, a former lawyer for Mitchell Johnson: "In Jonesboro, there are little militia boys that have guns, and you have an environment that is particularly conducive to what happened. This would not have happened in Minnesota," where his ex-client was originally from. "Mitchell might have snapped there too, but in a different context." Mitchell's partner, Drew Golden, 11, was Arkansas-raised and had reportedly attended a militia camp in California...
...dream team of defense attorneys, Robert Bennett, Roy Black and Johnnie Cochran, considered this question: Which historic figure would you wish to have had as a client...
Alas, it was not to be. The final straw for the Lewinsky family, we're told, may have been Ginsburg's decision to write an article for a California legal magazine in which he essentially acknowledged that his client committed perjury--an act so astonishingly boneheaded that even Ken Starr couldn't have thought...
...Lewinsky is represented by two criminal lawyers so steeped in the ways of Washington that their clients rarely show up in court except to plead guilty to some misdemeanor whose connection with the case at hand is not immediately apparent. Presumably these are the sort of lawyers who, unlike Starr, know how to leak information without leaving fingerprints and, unlike Ginsburg, have better things to do on Sunday morning than destroy their client's case on network television...