One of the highest services the lawyer can render to society is to appear in court on behalf of clients whose causes are in disfavor with the general public. -- ABA and AALS, Professional Responsibility: Report of the Joint Conference (1958)
What does this bring up in your mind? Mine: KKK free speech cases, religious rights, academic freedom cases (like the professor at U of Wisconsin who taught that the US government set up 9/11). What about when taking the case might lead to the downfall of your firm? For example, if a firm decides to represent a KKK member in a very public case, their law student recruitment might be hurt along with the volume of cases they can bring in. Do they still have to take it?
2 comments:
It makes me think of To Kill A Mokingbird. My uncle is an attourney, and he says that Atticus Finch is the ideal that every lawyer should work toward.
10:59 am needs to re-read the title of that book again. It is spelled "Mockingbird," not "Mokingbird."
It is also spelled "attorney," not "attourney."
I hope that the posters on this blog work toward emulating my grammar rather than that of the poster at 10:59 am.
signed,
Grammar Cop
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