> Really, Justin, don't you see that most nonlawyers see lawyers as
> holding to "a strategic view of the truth" (as a former editor of a
> celebrity left intellectual once said of said intellectual)? That
> truth is what you can prove? Granted there are other professions that
> do that - advertising and PR, Enron's accountants. And all of us do
> that to some degree - teachers, writers, pipefitters, seamstresses,
> farmers. But it's not quite so prominent a part of the job
> description. A lot of people think there's something unseemly about
> being so nakedly an opinion for hire. Why do you think there are all
> those lawyer jokes?
>
> Doug
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Imagine Bakunin, KM, Drucilla Cornell, Janet Halley and Richard Rorty very drunk-stoned together trying to figure out K Street and Wall Street and what to do about it all......................
Ian