It’s an incredible lack of understanding within our society (or refusal to understand) that even the intelligent still misunderstand something so profound as the role of a lawyer. It’s like that old chestnut at a social event amongst non lawyers, when asked, “how can you represent guilty people?”…
Maybe it’s another area for inclusion in the school curriculum…
Pannick responds
It’s an incredible lack of understanding within our society (or refusal to understand) that even the intelligent still misunderstand something so profound as the role of a lawyer. It’s like that old chestnut at a social event amongst non lawyers, when asked, “how can you represent guilty people?”…
Maybe it’s another area for inclusion in the school curriculum…