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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
I don't think they're bad people, but I think being allowed to lie as a central component of your job withers the soul. See also, anyone who sells cars and/or real estate.
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How many cases have you won without using at least five or six "constructive lies"? Even when your client's totally in the right, there are those bad facts in a case that must be massaged. And by massaged, I mean spun. And by spun, I mean avoided, forgotten or shaded in a manner suggesting the presence of events diametrically opposed to those which actually took place. And by that I mean, how many times have you tried a case without employing "lawyer's lies"?
Exactly.
Now, remove the word "lawyer's." Because that in itself is misleading. The only descriptive that honestly fits is "lies." You have lied, I have lied. Every litigator has lied. Hundreds of times over his career.
It doesn't wilt the soul for me. If no one lied, we wouldn't have courts.
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