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His message was "Be a builder," and why that's a noble way of looking at your role in serving a client.
Pressed about his participation, as a Bush-era Justice Department official, in internal executive branch discussions related to torture and warrantless surveillance, he emphasized that he had been a lawyer serving a client, not a policy maker.
The book contends that from law school on through their careers, lawyers are so imbued with the concepts of serving a client in an adversarial arena ("zealous advocacy," in legal parlance) and unemotionally evaluating facts and rules ("thinking like a lawyer," as the phrase goes) that they fail to answer to any overarching sense of right and wrong.
For the most part, state rules say that in extreme cases, lawyers should withdraw from serving a client who breaks the law, according to Harris Weinstein, an expert on legal ethics, though some allow what is called "noisy withdrawal" -- a resignation that is public enough to draw attention to the wrongdoing.
What Mr. Scharer means by serving a client might involve staging a bar mitzvah in Atlantic City (cost: $250,000, not including the price of a Porsche, a present for the 13-year-old that was revealed on an onstage turntable at the rise of a curtain) or recreating a U.S.O.-type show, replete with Andrews Sisters lookalikes, in a Greenwich home.
In the legal and medical professions, where you're steeped in the notion that you are serving a client or patient and you have a duty to that person, there is some check on the notion that you want to increase the return to the bottom line.
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Anonymous To serve a client is not to endorse him.
Being management consultants by profession, we could not resist an opportunity to serve a client in need.
By going to such lengths to serve a client, Mr. Bacanovic underscored how thin the line can be between exemplary client service and unethical or even illegal behavior.
We work with a lot of huge corporate law firms and even if they have four months to serve a client, they want it done this afternoon.
As additional practice groups serve a client, the firm can bill a higher amount, and each group earns more, on average.
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