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"The danger is that they will forget that the job is really to help their client and not necessarily simply to hurt the government".
Their duty is to help their client, and often there are pieces of evidence that are not in their client's interest to have disclosed or produced.
It metastasised into a national drama, one that exposed deep fissures in American society, for one reason: because the defendant's lawyers thought that using race would help their client win an acquittal.
Floyd Abrams, an eminent lawyer, wrote in The New York Times that in our current climate, we should not be surprised when lawyers state things that "have nothing to do with the truth," because we should know that they will say anything that might help their client.
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One reason, he suggested, was that lawyers might help their clients with escape plans.
In complicated deals, lawyers sometimes can help their clients identify contradictions inherent in the agreement.
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