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...other side rose Max D. Steuer, challenger for the irate husband. As lawyers both men rank with the Launcelots, Bediveres and Geraints, if not the Galahads. And for the sake of the rich rewards at stake, they jousted at one another as much as at the other's client...
...subject presents few attractions; and I, gentlemen, am not the man nor are you, gentlemen the men to delight in the contemplation of revolting heartlessness and systematic villainy. It is difficult to smile with an aching heart?it is ill jesting when our deepest sympathies are awakened. My client's prospects are ruined. All is gloom and silence in the house; even the voice of the child is hushed . . . while his mother weeps...
...occasions -to a fair show for its 'white alley.' I consider a newspaper to be the retained attorney for the public, and I believe a newspaper which is faithless to that trust is as much of a traitor as an attorney who betrays the interests of the client who employs him." Against the common charges of vulgar sensationalism, of pandering to the evil in men's minds, of propagating and feeding prejudices and class-hatred, Mr. Hearst made no defense. Among those present at the dinner were Mrs. Hearst, Arthur Brisbane, Daniel Willard, several local bank presidents...
...moral of the entire case is that the courts will not hold any lawyer guilty of unethical conduct solely because a client of the lawyer succeeds in using him unwittingly as a tool for fraudulent transactions. A lawyer is responsible only for his own honesty -not for that of his clients...
...lawyer speaks in behalf of his client, in regard to a matter in which the client is already deeply interested. The minister's clients are "all sorts and conditions of men", and it is necessary for him to convince them of the reality of the things of the spirit...