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As a lawyer, I can confirm that I frequently compose tweets confessing to crimes and send them from my clients twitter accounts. Its the first thing you learn at law school.
ExciteBike66
(2,385 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)niyad
(113,679 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts).
Irish_Dem
(47,561 posts)dchill
(38,578 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,561 posts)You are right, of course.
dchill
(38,578 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,561 posts)dchill
(38,578 posts)The movie was funny. The humor doesn't exactly translate to reality, though.
Irish_Dem
(47,561 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Yah-hoo,
and, "There ain't no time to wonder why,
Yippee, we're all going to die."
Makes me want to put my head under my tiny desk top.
So much winning!!!
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)can tweet out that he contacted the Russians to interfere in the elections on Trump's behalf
malaise
(269,237 posts)he could be in serious trouble
PJMcK
(22,059 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)According to attorney Seth Abramson, he could be disbarred for this action. At the least, a lengthy suspension would be in order.
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Trump's whole team is corrupt. They need to be brought down.
malaise
(269,237 posts)wouldn't that be lovely
Motley13
(3,867 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers. REALLY, REALLY stupid. There are Common discussions among lawyers about people tending to hire lawyers who reflect their personality. Some people want an agressive SOB, others are methodical and careful, some want to control every detail and get upset if the lawyer won't break the rules to do what they want.
Seems like rules. Laws, regs, and norms are ignored by these crazy aggressive neanderthals...no offense to neanderthals. If the Clintons or Obama had a lawyer doing this BS, it would be all we would be hearing about.
snort
(2,334 posts)I'm 4 percent neanderthal. You need to apologize to 4 percent of me, otherwise, Og no happy, Og sad. Grunt.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)are superior to the RW. To the 4pc of you,
sheilahi
(277 posts)And then he can tweet that it was actually him on that Access Hollywood bus doing a drop dead impression of the mouth breather.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)mgardener
(1,824 posts)Trump should have to explain, under oath, how that tweet was sent to the American people.
And pay the price for lying.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,772 posts)Not that I don't believe that lawyers cross the line in order to protect their money generating clients. I have seen it in action on a local level. What I haven't seen is the lawyers getting disbarred over it.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)This administration has and had a whole gaggle of lawyers around them who should get their licenses suspended or be disbarred, including Pence, Sessions (I filed a Disciplinary Complaint against him in Alabama), Christi, Giuliani, Kellyanne, McTurtle, Gorsuch, Kushner....
I agree I have seen people do things all of the time that warrant suspension or disbarment. They usually walk and move on to higher things.
I've been made fun of before because I wouldn't do illegal or unethical things, and I'm not a rigid stickler, but many people virtually ignore the rules. Then, some mess up bigly, or offend the wrong people, and get disciplined.
Baitball Blogger
(46,772 posts)"They usually walk and move on to higher things."
Leaving you to lose respect for the state's bar association. Doesn't it?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)needed to pay him $1000 or she would go to jail. Lawyers are not allowed to talk to other lawyers clients. I was out of the courtroom on a bathroom break, in, oddly, a complicated lawyer malpractice case, involving a lot of lawyers, and this attorney went to the other side of the courtroom to sit down by her and scare her to death. She was a naive elderly lady. A few nights later, I was talking to her on the phone the night before court, and she said, in response, " that's why I gave him $1000, because he told me I could go to jail if I didn't pay him."
I was dumbfounded. By morning, I had prepared various Motions to Sanction the lawyer, to present to the court before court started. He said, he took her check, but he never intended to cash it. He was going to give it back. (Sounds like an argument Trump would make). The Court of course was mad. The judge held him in Contempt of Court. He was ordered to pay my client back, plus another $1000 for a penalty, and her attorney fees. The funds were to be paid out of his own pocket, not his firm's. He was ordered to write a formal apology to my client, stating the rules he had violated. Plus, he had to self report to the bar, basically file a complaint against himself. Five years later he was President of the State Bar.
I could tell you more stories, and I'm sure you know many too.
Baitball Blogger
(46,772 posts)Algernon Sydney Sullivan. A lawyer who made it to the top of his profession by holding other lawyers in check of their professional ethics.
Sounds like you're one of them.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)against my clients or in my cases, which is a full time job, though there have been times someone did something so egregious, that they had to be taken down, a few judges. You really don't get paid for that, and I have spent many all nighters working on it. Some of the small stuff you have to let go, or you will never get anything done substantively. However, sometimes, regardless of the time, cost to me, damage to the body from ridiculous hours, some of those unethical, ruthless, bully jerks have to be taken to the woodshed. They will only cross me once.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,897 posts)Lawyers really aren't supposed to lie about things that matter.
Mr. Dowd has gotten himself into quite a corner.
Transactions With Persons Other Than Clients
Rule 4.1 Truthfulness In Statements To Others
In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not knowingly:
(a) make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person; or
(b) fail to disclose a material fact to a third person when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal or fraudulent act by a client, unless disclosure is prohibited by Rule 1.6.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)and some lawyers ignore it. There are ethical lawyers though, contrary to common opinion. I think the decline in ethics is getting worse all of the time. The judges I know say so too. I suppose the profession is declining along with society in ethics.
gademocrat7
(10,678 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Kablooie
(18,644 posts)NJCher
(35,782 posts)to be plagiarism, as I'm sure you know. Did you post this at DU?
Kablooie
(18,644 posts)NJCher
(35,782 posts)How do you feel about that?
underpants
(182,962 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Dowd is not the best. Dowd is the best of what Trump can get.
delisen
(6,046 posts)Your tweets are my tweets. We are in this together, deeply.
Faux pas
(14,700 posts)Brilliant
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)That's the second thing you learn at law school, avoid billable hours at all costs.
Pass on the costs to the state.
syringis
(5,101 posts)...that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard from another lawyer.
He must have found his degree in a cereal box !
Let's say his tale cheks out, the fact remains that Trump is responsible for what it is written on his Twitter account.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)HeartlandDem
(80 posts)I really needed it this morning.
efhmc
(14,734 posts)n/t
jimlup
(7,968 posts)louis-t
(23,309 posts)If dump paid his bills, he might be able to hire REAL lawyers.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)Either Trump promised him a pardon, should he get caught;
or, the lawyer is in this as deep as the rest of the scum-traitors.
FM123
(10,054 posts)Is to talk really loud about your case while eating lunch outside with a whole bunch of people listening, especially journalists that work next door.