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MohRokTah

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1. All attorneys MUST "zealously defend the interests of their client"

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 10:40 PM

Feb 2016

That is an ethical maxim for attorneys, regardless of the client.

You may not like the clients, but do not blame the attorney for doing their job.

I would note, he is almost single handedly responsible for insuring DOMA went down in flames.

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