Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
几周之内,世界上最大的两家拍卖行苏富比和佳士得不得不向那些将作品委托给他们拍卖的客户支付近2亿美元的保证金。
But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.
但很少有地方比美国更能引起客户投诉的。
There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.
事实上,法律界内部存在改革的压力,但监管机构中反对改革的人坚持认为,阻止外部人员进入律师事务所,可以使律师免受赚钱而非以符合道德的方式服务客户的压力。
the growing demand from clients.
来自客户的日益增长的需求。
show partiality in treating clients.
在处理客户事务时表现出偏袒。
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