A group of lawyers decides another lawyer is too sleazy for their ranks!

JimR

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This is somewhat OT, but since anything that slams that notorious gun-hater Clinton is OK, I figured it was OK.

Shunned by all the other jackals
May 24, 2000

Face it, Mr. Clinton. You've hit rock bottom when even other lawyers don't want anything to do with you.

Those who occupy the so-called "legal profession," are scum of the earth. That's a given. Yet when it came time to consider whether or not Billy Clinton should keep his law license, a coven of lawyers in Arkansas said the President was so low down and dirty that even they didn't want him in their midst. So an panel of Arkansas shysters has recommended Billy boy be stripped of his right to practice law.

Consider the ramifications when a group of lawyers decide another lawyer is too sleazy to even be part of their ranks. It's like Madonna getting kicked out of the slut-of-the-month club or Jeffrey Dahmer getting bounced from the Hannibal Lecter Cannibals Convention.

Too sleazy to be a lawyer? Lord, that's low. Seems the shysters in Arkansas want to send Bill Clinton packing because he lied and was found in contempt of court.

We already know a lying lawyer is redundant, and when you add contemptible, it's just piling one redundancy on top of another.

Of course, not all lawyers feel Billy is too sleazy to remain in the club. There's always Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor who never met a Clinton crime he couldn't rationalize or excuse.

Alan claims the disbarment is just another ploy of that nasty old vast right wing conspiracy and that Billy doesn't deserve to lose his law license. A slap on the wrist would be just fine, thank you very much.

What else would you expect from the man who got Klaus Von Bulow off the hook for offing his wife and also helped free O.J. Simpson for the slice and dice job on his ex and a male friend? Dershowitz would need a stepladder just to climb out of the primordial ooze that engulfs his flawed morality and questionable legal ethics.

Clinton of course, speaking though one of his many shysters, promises to fight the disbarment because, he claims, lying ain't that big a deal when you're a lawyer.

Maybe not. But when other lawyers consider you too low down and dirty to join them in the slime of their questionable profession, you've sunk about as low as anyone, even a lawyer, can get.

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Originally posted by JimR:
Seems the shysters in Arkansas want to send Bill Clinton packing because he lied and was found in contempt of court.


Lying and being in contempt of court is not the problem . They're punishing him because he GOT CAUGHT!!! Can you imagine being so bad as to make other lawyers look good ?

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TOM
SASS AMERICAN LEGION NRA
 
As an attorney, let me clear the air. It's not simply that he lied and got caught. It's that he lied to the judge, the judge got pissed, and the judge threw the book at him.

Attorneys get caught lying to judges all the time and most often, the judge slaps their wrist and gives them another chance (good ole' boy network at work). But sometimes, an attorney goes beyond the pale. What Clinton did went way beyond the pale. He bogged up the legal system for months, claimed it never happened, lied during the deposition, then tried to subvert the system by telling American (including potential jurors) that it did happen but here's the spin. Not only did that piss off the judge, but it showed that Clinton had absolutely no respect for the Court, the legal system, or his oath as an officer of the court. THAT is what pushed it over the edge.

I've had attorneys lie to me and the judge, coached their clients to lie in depositions and at trial. Normally, the best tactic is to prove their lying, which shows the Court and/or jury that neither the attorney nor the client can be believed. Usually, that's enough of a sanction. Here, though, the only appropriate option was dropping a ton of bricks on Clinton, which has been done.
 
By the way, not all attorneys are gun haters. I'm sure as hell not one. In law school, I was called a firebreathing, guntoting Southerner. Hell, yeah!

A couple of attorneys came down to Knoxville for a deposition from Philadelphia. They wanted to know where the nearest range was. Nice guys (although they were examples of liars. I wasn't even part of the case but I got the opportunity to prove they were lying. They settled shortly thereafter).
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by buzz_knox:
What Clinton did went way beyond the pale.[/quote]
I heard that! The ole power trip will get you every time.
 
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