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It's easy to characterize lawyers as "subtly screwing someone", but it's an unfair generalization. A lawyer's job is to advise and speak for their client. Basi
by MartinCron 16y ago
It's easy to characterize lawyers as "subtly screwing someone", but it's an unfair generalization.
A lawyer's job is to advise and speak for their client. Basically, they would say what their client would say, if they had the appropriate legal knowledge.
I know that if I were wrongfully accused of a crime, I wouldn't consider my defense attorney to be subtly screwing me.
- eru 16y agoYes. It's only when you get principal-agent problems --- like the legal department of a company advising litigation when settling or ignoring would be best, for reasons of their job-security.
- MartinCron 16y agoBut that's just exploitative unprofessionalism. You can get from any profession; from the mechanic who says you really need the new transmission right now to the programmer who writes code that looks like it has been put through an obfuscator.
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