[ByteMercenary]

“Granting that there are more than a few attorneys who do just that, ...”.

I am glad you included that line because I have yet to meet a lawyer who gives a serious f**k about ethics. And the closer they get to politics the less they care.

[TakebackGOP]

What happens now?

[Rockingham]

My late father was an honest lawyer and honest judge, I was an honest lawyer when I was in practice before retiring, and I have known other honest lawyers as close friends. In confirmation of your suspicion though, one often has to fight with crooks of all types as a lawyer, including lawyers and judges at times. For the honest, the legal profession has some extra burdens.

Here's a funny true story. On a trip down state, I went to the office of a lawyer friend to meet him for lunch. As I was waiting in the anteroom while he finished a meeting with a client, I and his secretaries heard garbled yelling and shouting in Spanish from behind the closed door to his office.

Suddenly, the door burst open, with the argument continuing in Spanish as my friend (a Cuban-American) angrily and firmly escorted his client out of the office. As I soon learned at lunch, my friend had immediately fired his client because the client had lied to him and expected him to help put the lie over on the court.

Through honest hard work, my Cuban lawyer friend has earned enough to live in a large, multi-million house that he owns in Palm Beach on the barrier island just down the road from Mar-a-Largo. And part of our friendship over the years has been satisfaction in sticking it to crooks in law and politics.