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JOHN GRISHAM'S THE CLIENT

The Client's story line is simple, young Mark Sway (11 year-old) and little brother Ricky (9 year-old) sneak to the woods to have a smoke.  Little do they know a very prominent lawyer (Jerome Clifford) has chosen the same woods to end his life.  Mark feels obliged to ‘help’ save his life.  Instead, he ends up witnessing the traumatic suicide and becoming Clifford's aka Romey’s last confidant (now he knows who killed a ‘missing’ Louisiana senator and where the body is buried - information that everyone, from the mob to the FBI and the media, is dying for).

Now, with his little brother suffering from a severe case of acute traumatic stress disorder, their mother by his bedside, their trailer torched and with everyone after him, he uses his LAST one dollar change to hire a lawyer (Reggie Love) and hope that, he can beat them all by getting the best deal any witness has ever got.


Excerpts from THE CLIENT:

# The most effective defense lawyers are those who keep the fighting away from the issues.  They bitch and throw rocks over the tiny subplots of a case and hope the prosecution and the jury are diverted away from the obvious guilt of their clients.  If there’s something to hide, they scream at the guy for violating technicalities.


# It’s amazing how lies grow.  You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one.  Then another.  People believe you at first, and they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you’d simply told the truth.


And who could forget this lecture from Judge Harry Roosevelt to Thomas Fink?


Listen to me, Mr. Fink.  This is not some fancy courtroom in New Orleans, and I’m not one of your federal judges.  This is my little private courtroom, and I make the rules, Mr. Fink.  Rule number one is that you speak only in my courtroom when you are first spoken to by me.  Rule number two is that you do not grace His Honor with unsolicited speeches, comments, or remarks.  Rule number three is that His Honor does not like to hear the voices of lawyers.  His Honor has been hearing these voices for twenty years, and His Honor knows how lawyers love to hear themselves talk.  Rule number four is that you do not stand in my courtroom.  You sit at that table and say as little as possible.  Do you understand these rules ,Mr. Fink?'

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