Historical clue formulations

• Service recipient — 2022-11-27
• Consultant's customer — 2020-06-20
• Lawyer's need — 2017-07-28
• Ad agency acquisition — 2013-06-14
• Lawyer's need — 2013-05-09
• Ambulance chaser's prize — 2010-08-06
• Lawyer's need — 2009-02-01
• Customer — 2004-11-06
• Patron — 2001-08-26
• Whom a lawyer represents — 2001-08-20
• With 26-Down, regular customers — 2001-06-29
• Grisham title, with "The" — 1998-08-25
• Patron — 1997-01-22
• Grisham nail-biter, with "The" — 1996-03-27