His erstwhile client is currently engaged in a bitter turf war with fellow street artist King Robbo.
To top it off, while Uhrig and Sonner did defend their erstwhile client at length, protesting his innocence and backing his assertion of self-defense, they also all but called him disturbed.
"We do not tolerate behaviour that deviates from our ethical standards," it said, mindful no doubt of the fate of Arthur Andersen, the auditing firm which was forced to disband after the disclosure of its role in the scandals at its erstwhile client, Enron.
If the conflict has demonstrated anything, it is that neither erstwhile superpower has the clout to control its clients on the ground.
Grounds challenging the competence of counsel lead to a compulsory waiver of privilege and a torrent of inevitable but unattractive reasons from erstwhile counsel previously retained as to why the client was in fact guilty, how troublesome they were, and as to why it is not the advocate's fault but rather that of their client.
A legal spokesman for Ancier, an erstwhile executive at Fox Broadcasting, Warner Bros and NBC, dismissed the allegations as "demonstrably untrue" and denied her client had ever visited the estate in Hawaii where the abuse is alleged to have taken place.
Again, that might sound laudable, but the result has been a development framework that bypasses the preferences of the impoverished individuals who are the erstwhile beneficiaries, and favors instead the trade-offs and priorities that best satisfy U.N. officials and client governments.
The outrage was intense: Senator John McCain, a Stevens client in 2000, was reported to have been so incensed that he publicly denounced his erstwhile media guru.
"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?
