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"Actually, There Are Stupid Questions"

This post was written by Mark Bennett: "I admit it: I was wrong.

For a decade I've been encouraging young lawyers and soon-to-be lawyers to start their criminal defense practices right out of law school. With hard work, intelligence, and humility, I thought, they could do well without hurting anyone; the question, I thought, was not whether they would provide perfect representation, but whether they would provide better representation than the other people who their clients might use instead.

I wanted to believe, because society is better served by having those who are dedicated to freedom serving that cause (rather than the State) from the start of their practices, and because here in Harris County the only way for a lawyer to serve freedom from the start of her practice is to start her own practice.

Forget all that..."

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Source: Defending People, 18 June 2010. © 2010 Defending People, reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).