A client king appointed by the Romans, lacking legitimacy and unpopular with his subjects, Herod had initiated the Temple reconstruction to win favour among the Jews, but was forbidden from even entering the inner sanctum of his crowning achievement.
A Long Island City lawyer has been charged with stealing from clients the city appointed him to represent, including an Alzheimer's patient and a teenager born with "massive birth defects".
Attorney Michael Puzo of the Boston law firm Hemenway & Barnes had a client who appointed a three-person committee consisting of his son, a lawyer and an art expert to look after a collection of books, paintings and illuminated manuscripts that he had willed to a museum.
The company, which has recently struggled to stem an outflow of client money, appointed its chief operating officer, Emmanuel Roman, to succeed Mr. Clarke.
"It is doubtful that the issue of waiting for a car for 20 minutes from the time appointed led the client to be in such a state," the statement said.
To counter client withdrawals, the Man Group appointed Mr. Roman earlier this year and announced a major overhaul, including $270 million of expected one-off cost savings by 2015.
"That is what the client wants," said Michael Burke, newly appointed chairman and chief executive of Louis Vuitton, who says that fine jewelry is the category with the highest growth potential.
But there was tension over a fundamental question: Should the corporation counsel's principal client be the mayor who appointed him or the city as a whole?
One member eventually went to court to have a guardian appointed, exactly what the client had hoped to avoid.
I showed up at the appointed time and place and met with the client, the architect, the audiovisual contractor and the interior designer.
