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Since founding I.G.I. in 1984, Lenzner, 61, has assembled a client list that ranges from Mike Tyson to Ivana Trump, plus such corporations as Drexel Burnham Lambert, the lottery operator Gtech and AOL. The lawyer and former civil servant has dished dirt on tobacco whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand and the United Way's wayward William Aramony. In the early '90s, Lenzner even investigated the Paula Jones case for the Clinton camp, sealing his reputation as an official FOB, or Friend of Bill...
...that some lawyers are, for lack of a more sophisticated word, jerks. I've definitely encountered opposition teams who employ every dirty trick in the book in order to gain the upper hand, and I've seen the way a particular law firm will target only the types of clients which promise the greatest return. More disheartening is the way certain attorneys will drop a petitioner at the first sign of serious trouble, leaving their client with large bills and without representation...
...indulge his pleasures in a big way. There may be no bigger way to do that than to hand yourself over to Gehry, whose work is the pleasure principle engraved in stone, twisted glass, titanium and crimson stainless steel. Gehry tells a story about one of a German client who came to him after seeing an earlier Gehry building in Switzerland: "He said to me, 'That one was Wow! Now give...
WILLIAM NEUKOM Hey, nice job on the Microsoft defense. Hint: slap yer client, and try to resolve on appeal...
...work-life balance." Translation: it has dawned on them that working you to death may hurt their profits. "It costs us 150% of an annual salary to replace an employee in terms of retraining a new person, the turbulence it causes in a unit and the impact on our client," says Denny Marcel, associate director of the burnout-prevention unit at Ernst & Young. Miller calls the accounting firm, which offers three to five vacation weeks to its 20,000-plus employees, one of the better companies when it comes to lightening the load...