It has been the bedrock of the lawyer-client relationship for decades: the billable hour.

Do you grasp the need for a tight, unviolated lawyer-client relationship here?

The confidential character of the lawyer-client relationship will end.

He doesn't, though not because of his respect for the lawyer-client relationship.

"It's hard to maintain a lawyer-client relationship if one of the parties is broadcasting to the world everything we discuss."

I felt and still do feel that I had a lawyer-client relationship with candidate Bush.

Anything incriminating or which would put us in a lawyer-client relationship?

But don't forget, Sam, we've got a lawyer-client relationship.

The lawyer-client relationship has historically been characterised as one of confidence.

"In all the history of these inquiries, no one has ever asserted before that the President should have no personal lawyer-client relationship," he said.