While other once radical lawyers now represent well- heeled drug traders he keeps on getting paid for only 20 percent of his cases.
At the airport, a team of radical lawyers were waiting for their clients.
He was the nicest guy - he didn't start off as a screaming radical lawyer.
In reaction, Nigeria's intellectual and media establishment rallied around the radical lawyer last week.
"My feeling's probably a hangover from that radical young lawyer you tried to recruit twelve years ago."
The radical lawyer was a man of contradictions.
The briefs in the first state appeal were written by four young radical lawyers, of whom I was one.
He became Dublin's leading radical lawyer of the day.
He fancied himself as a radical lawyer, which, for that part of the world in 1970, was quite rare.
Ms. Stewart, who calls herself a radical lawyer, said she still believed "in the strength of the people."