Dear Sandro -- I make no apologies for being a lawyer and zealously representing my clients. Nor do I engage in falsehoods, lie or cheat or do any of those things many of you think lawyers do all the time. It's against my moral code to do so, and on a practical level it's very easy to get caught. But I do zealously represent clients, raising every legitimate argument the facts and the law allow.
Would you want anything less if you were the client? But, did you ever ask him/her to LIE for you? I think not. Did you ever PERMIT him/her to LIE for you? Again, I think not. Very few clients ever do. If you were my client and told me you intended to lie in the proceedings -- even to shade the facts "just a little", you'd get fired as a client. BTW, there are VERY strict rules requiring lawyers to be honest and candid with adversaries, clients and the courts. If you get caught, you can get disbarred. And it does happen. And, lying in court proceedings is called Perjury for which you can go to prison to do some really hard time, if some of you remember the Watergate episode. Dave Clark
