Although on his own he had previously been zealous to help his own people, now that he was being commissioned to deliver them he expressed doubt concerning his qualifications.
A zealous anticommunist, he helps found the John Birch Society.
They also wrote fake reader's letters to several newspapers, provided scripts for unattributed briefings with journalists, and helped zealous citizens to write misleading ads for the press.
"Clients look to our firm to give them the kind of zealous advocacy that can help turn around a case," Mastro told me, and Gibson, Dunn has been lauded for its success in rescuing major corporations from legal threats.
At the height of the trade, when more than 5,000 bodies a year were brought into Iraq, according to an authoritative account of Iraq's Shiites by the historian Yitzhak Nakash, a profession of corpse driers sprang up on the Iranian side of the border to help thwart zealous inspectors.
He said: "New tax breaks for shops and sensible changes to over-zealous parking rules will help make high streets more attractive to shoppers".
Later, prestige-seeking Saudi businessmen wrote checks to radical Islamic charities, financing the spread of radical Islam in much of the Islamic world -- in the same way that zealous but misguided Americans helped underwrite I.R.A. terrorism in the 1970's and 1980's, as our own government pretended not to notice.
The Alger Hiss case, which helped propel a zealous young congressman named Richard M. Nixon to fame in 1948 and helped lay the groundwork for McCarthyism, is treated in American History magazine (www.thehistorynet.com /AmericanHistory/articles/1998 /0698_text.htm).htm
Individuals brought into these courts who do sex work by choice or because of difficult life circumstances, and people falsely profiled as sex workers because of their race, gender identity or arrest history, also deserve help and a zealous defense.
The German authorities also fined Siemens a similar amount.That case has helped spur more zealous pursuit of corporate bribery in Europe, says Richard Dean of Baker & McKenzie, another law firm.
