please explain
2006-10-22 09:00:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Simple. The lawyer is here to help you, by hook or by crook. If he does not know the whole truth and something goes awry because he planned something wrong in his crookery , or just because he could not foresee the case taking that angle and plan a correct reaction, he loses the case, and it looks bad, both on his record and his bottom line.
In other words : he needs the truth, and the whole truth, because what he does not know can make you lose, and when you have a lawyer, it's usually because you want to win.
2006-10-22 09:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lawyer who knows the whole truth is less likely to get blind-sided (or surprised) by the opposition. But many lawyers don't want to know that their client is really guilty. Some do, though..
2006-10-22 16:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the lawyer has to know how to defend his client. If he doesn't have the truth, how can he decide the best way to defend him/her?
2006-10-22 16:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by Da Bomb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Representing a client that has lied to you puts you at risk of perpetrating a fraud on the court or suborning perjury. Do it often enough and they stop believing that you didn't know. That means the license is history.
2006-10-22 16:45:40 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they want to found a new professional goup based on a revolutionary concept that truth and justice should take presidence over money and law.
Good luck to these high minded free thinking nieve idealists, we wish you well!!!!
2006-10-22 16:12:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Er, hello?
Only the ethical ones my dear, only the ethical ones.
2006-10-22 16:09:58 · answer #6 · answered by Ontol 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To analize and win his/her case.
2006-10-22 16:19:42 · answer #7 · answered by Nicholais S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋