At Merrill, some longstanding clients, especially in Boston, are balking at doing business with the company.

He will continue to work with longstanding clients, he said, but will leave his office in the Fuller Building on East 57th Street before Christmas.

"Regarding your wife, you may say that a longstanding corporate client requires your services as a matter of urgency, and you cannot afford to disappoint them."

Ms. Moss simultaneously discovered that lucrative contracts with longstanding clients like Burberry and Chanel were not renewed or else dropped.

Then last night the longstanding clients came - 150 of them.

In an age of electronic trading, Mr. Ryan prided himself on an old-fashioned relationship with his longstanding clients.

Major League Baseball has been a longstanding client of BakerHostetler.

The high dollar almost cost the company a longstanding German client.

This means that except for longstanding clients, a bank would have to choose between underwriting the securities of a client or lending it money.

One of Mr. Flynn's longstanding clients is Christina Seguine, now 26 and legally classified as disabled.