The Panama leak is not the only case of lawyers forming shell corporations in secrecy jurisdictions.
However, the reasoning used to reach his result in the case of lawyers would seemingly apply with equal persuasiveness in the case of public employees.
It is a classic case of lawyers playing businessmen.
In the case of lawyers, the type of activity was also detrimental to non-white graduates, and education was less effective in sheltering workers against discrimination.
The Tribune uncovered cases of lawyers falling asleep at trials, engaging in extortion and assaulting teenage girls.
Critics argue that many defendants receive inadequate counsel, including at least three widely publicized cases of lawyers who have slept through parts of the proceedings.
But the spectacle in Arizona of a prisoner taking almost two hours to die after he was administered drugs, the origin of which was kept secret, will can only bolster the cases of lawyers and anti-death penalty campaigners.
Despite glaring examples of bad lawyering at the trial level in Texas, including at least three widely publicized cases of lawyers who have slept through the proceedings, the state appeals court has reversed only eight death penalty cases in the last five years, while affirming the convictions and death sentences in 256 cases, according to court statistics.
He would regret especially, I think, the failure of the Supreme Court to hold that the Constitution requires a meaningfully competent lawyer for the poor defendant -- the court's countenancing, even in capital cases, of lawyers who scarcely go through the motions while their clients are convicted.
Lawyers for jail officials wanted Amnesty International to disclose the names of lawyers quoted anonymously in the report but the group refused in all but the case of one lawyer, Bryan Lonegan, who waived his confidentiality.
