Like you, I am a lawyer. And like most of your readers, I consider your newsletter an indispensable source of information and comment.
But I believe you are too gentle -- even way too gentle -- on the Bar. The profession lays claim to a high level of ethics, far beyond that expected of a lay person. I am reflexively suspicious of such cla…
Like you, I am a lawyer. And like most of your readers, I consider your newsletter an indispensable source of information and comment.
But I believe you are too gentle -- even way too gentle -- on the Bar. The profession lays claim to a high level of ethics, far beyond that expected of a lay person. I am reflexively suspicious of such claims but, at a minimum, it seems fair to hold an organization making such claims to the standards it professes.
By what stretch of the imagination can the conduct of lawyers challenging the election of 2020 (in court and elsewhere) be defended in light of those standards? Is sociopathy a valid justification?
A defense? Is the conduct even remotely consistent with the oath sworn by lawyers in every state? Why haven't a greater number of the lawyers responsible for repeatedly filing frivolous pleadings, disregarding admonitions from the bench, making blatantly false claims, and otherwise behaving in obviously unethical behavior been summarily disbarred? The process seems to be taking forever -- why? What is the defense? I am not speaking of crimes. I am speaking of statements and actions that cannot possibly be reconciled with the standard of behavior that the Bar proclaims lawyers must adhere to. I honestly don't get it.
Like you, I am a lawyer. And like most of your readers, I consider your newsletter an indispensable source of information and comment.
But I believe you are too gentle -- even way too gentle -- on the Bar. The profession lays claim to a high level of ethics, far beyond that expected of a lay person. I am reflexively suspicious of such claims but, at a minimum, it seems fair to hold an organization making such claims to the standards it professes.
By what stretch of the imagination can the conduct of lawyers challenging the election of 2020 (in court and elsewhere) be defended in light of those standards? Is sociopathy a valid justification?
A defense? Is the conduct even remotely consistent with the oath sworn by lawyers in every state? Why haven't a greater number of the lawyers responsible for repeatedly filing frivolous pleadings, disregarding admonitions from the bench, making blatantly false claims, and otherwise behaving in obviously unethical behavior been summarily disbarred? The process seems to be taking forever -- why? What is the defense? I am not speaking of crimes. I am speaking of statements and actions that cannot possibly be reconciled with the standard of behavior that the Bar proclaims lawyers must adhere to. I honestly don't get it.