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By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent
Lawyers are coming under fire for numerous alleged derelictions in the Motor City's abuse-of-executive-power scandal, which involves claims of "false testimony, concealment of information from the city council and possible destruction of evidence. ... 'There's so much wrongdoing, it's hard to know where to start,' says professor John Brennan of Thomas M. Cooley Law School. 'The city attorneys are not acting like lawyers, they're acting like (Mayor Kwame) Kilpatrick's legal bodyguards. They've forgotten who their clients are.'" (Martha Neil, "Lawyers in ?Ethical Minefield? in $8.4M Detroit Settlement Scandal", ABA Journal, Mar. 6; Joe Swickard, "Attorneys' conduct questioned in the Kilpatrick text-message scandal", Detroit Free Press, Mar. 6).
Full post as published by Overlawyered on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).
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