For such respected clients, a building lacking in feng shui could be a dealbreaker.
Having worked for the major fashion house and then on my own for very respected clients with good results, I became a bit of a force to be reckoned with in the business world.
If you're affiliated with trusted brands they already know you've worked with respected clients, you're the head of a volunteer professional association, or you've published articles in a blog or magazine they've heard of, for instance – they're far more willing to give you a chance.
"I think you'll see more and more respected clients' attorneys getting into this area, because there's been an explosion of knowledge about S.U.V. risk," said Richard L. Denney, an Oklahoma lawyer who was chairman of a committee of attorneys involved in consolidated federal litigation against Firestone, relating to the much-publicized fatal rollover accidents involving Ford Explorers.
"A very wealthy, well-respected client hired us when she was reflooring her double-height apartment on Central Park West," he said.
Stanford today is one of the most notorious financial criminals of our era, but back when Andrews Kurth wanted him as a client, he was a respected international banker, financier, and billionaire.
Davis' client got the idea from a respected accounting firm in Memphis, Tennessee, which was working with Grant Thornton, the national accounting firm that created the ploy.
Davis' client got the idea from a respected Memphis accounting firm, which was working with national accounting firm Grant Thornton, which created the ploy.
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Another client bought a work of art from a respected Zurich dealer only to learn, when he sought to sell it at auction in the United States, that the piece was a forgery.
The division has since grown under the leadership of a respected former F.B.I. official, but it still had only about 10 clients as of January.
