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Originally posted by steve645Believe me. It is possible to sleep at night.
Could you sleep at night knowing you got a guilty client off and then not representing him later as he had no money?
Very early in my career I did some court law, mostly civil law, but I
had a couple of criminal cases.
What I learnt is that people are mean and they want to take
advantage of you. Here is a basic truth of the profession:
Everybody lies. You cannot act, as a lawyer, in trust to anybody
because the minute you close your eyes you will get stabbed in the
back: The other lawyers, the authorities, the other lawyer's client,
and your client.
Particularly your client will do ANYTHING at hand to pay less or late,
so a lawyer must be ruthless. UNFORTUNATELY.
I underline: Unfortunately.
So I could sleep at night, yeah, but very soon I chose to leave the
courtroom and be a business lawyer.
Edit. The only principle to respect, IMO, is: Represent your client at
your best knowledge and effort, without losing your dignity or self
respect and the respect from your loved ones. This is just my opinion,
of course.
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Originally posted by Seitse
Believe me. It is possible to sleep at night.
Very early in my career I did some court law, mostly civil law, but I
had a couple of criminal cases.
What I learnt is that people are mean and they want to take
advantage of you. Here is a basic truth of the profession:
[b]Everybody lies. You cannot act, as a lawyer, in trust to anybody
because t ity or self
respect and the respect from your loved ones. This is just my opinion,
of course.[/b]
Originally posted by SeitseHad to edit because what I said wasn't acceptable .. even to me.
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I liked you right up until you said you were a lawyer, now I have to question that, because I hate lawyers.
I used a lawyer in my first divorce .. I lost a house, 2 cars, a dog and a cat, and he changed me $5200.00 for the cherry on top.
My 2nd divorce I just gave her the house, car, and was anle to keep my dog this time. No lawyer bill either.
Both my ex's were good housekeepers .. they both kept houses that I bought.
Man, I am so sorry to read that. What can I say?
I could try to defend myself saying we're not all the same, or that
it's not the fault of the lawyer but of a system that goes over the
board when it tries to protect women as if they were victims and
retards, while at the same the ladies ask for equality and this and that.
But I only can say that I am sorry that happened to you.
Originally posted by steve645He did a good job only if the criteria is just winning -- as MikeBruce pointed out.
I like that! We had a good lawyer here....still good...who represented a man accused of murdering an elementary school teacher in her home. The defense lawyer chose a strategy of blaming the ex- boyfriend and not the current boyfriend. Although the ex-boyfriend was another teacher and the break up was amicable, the new boyfriend had a violent criminal hi ...[text shortened]... f that a%%hole. That's just one reason people hate lawyers!
Did his lawyer do a good job?
Justice should not be about winning. Justice should be about truth.
There is a fundamental tension not just in the US but worldwide between people who want to win at any cost and people who want to win but won't cheat to do so.
One hears a lot of justifications for the 'cheater' position, things like everybody does it, society is different today, non-cheaters are just weak, etc. Even on RHP there are cheaters using chess engines -- it's everywhere! There have been a lot of bad examples in US sports, as well. Quotes like 'Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing', etc.
The only absolutely sure thing is the following: every action you take contributes to the world we all live in. In a sense, we create "our world" every minute by our actions. So if you do wrong, you may win, but the world of which you are a part has become fractionally worse. You can justify this all you want. But there is no escaping that the world is a worse place, and by electing to 'win at any cost', you have made it so.
Something to think about.