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Lawyers are, in a way, the fathers of spin. They call it "vigorous representation of my client." The central distinction of spin--between knowingly lying and ignorantly or disingenuously misleading--is a positive ethical obligation of the legal profession. Lawyers are forbidden to do the former and required to do the latter as best they can. This includes what's known as "arguing in the alternative"--the practice, infuriating to lay people, of saying, "My client never stole the money, Your Honor, and anyway, he gave it all to charity...
Lawyers are free, of course, to take any side of a given case and are not restricted in what they say on behalf of today's client by what they may have said on behalf of yesterday's. In recent years, these necessary lawyerly hypocrisies have leached out of the courtroom as lawyers have taken on broader roles and big legal cases have become multifront battlefields. The most important battlefield is often the courthouse steps...
...stated cause for his leaving was a client conflict involving Boies' wish to represent New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a suit against Major League Baseball, which meant against all its teams. The Atlanta Braves were owned by Time Warner, a longtime and big-time Cravath client. Less than 48 hours after his partners asked him to make a choice, Boies announced his departure. Remarkably, the New York Times put the story on the front page...
...course, he works too. When he got back to his New York office the day the Supreme Court decided against him, in town for the first time in nearly a month, Boies greeted his partners, picked up the phone and joined a conference call with client Calvin Klein, then another with developer Sheldon Solow. Taking advantage of the time difference, he made a third to the West Coast to talk about a Napster matter. "It's always a workday someplace," he said, almost exhilarated...
...Average number of hours devoted by lawyers surveyed to find the right gift for a client...