Comments on: First, Blame the Lawyers http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/first_blame_the.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hob http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/first_blame_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-55590 hob Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:22:55 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/first-blame-the-lawyers.html#comment-55590 After fifty years of practice, I am amazed that so many lawyers have failed to learn how to say "no" to their client even if that client walks out the door or fires you. I am glad to see at least one lawyer called to account for that failure. Why have not more Enron type lawyers been made to pay a penalty for their complicity no for their failure to say "no". After fifty years of practice, I am amazed that so many lawyers have failed to learn how to say “no” to their client even if that client walks out the door or fires you. I am glad to see at least one lawyer called to account for that failure. Why have not more Enron type lawyers been made to pay a penalty for their complicity no for their failure to say “no”.

]]> By: dave http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/first_blame_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-55589 dave Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:58:59 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/first-blame-the-lawyers.html#comment-55589 MC, I wasn't making a judgment. I was relaying what the story said. MC, I wasn’t making a judgment. I was relaying what the story said.

]]> By: Maryland Conservatarian http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/first_blame_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-55588 Maryland Conservatarian Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:57:36 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/first-blame-the-lawyers.html#comment-55588 wouldn't say she was "undercredentialed" - she went to law school and and she passed the bar exam - an exam a lot of students from ABA-accredited schools have trouble with. Would you have called her "undercredentialed" had instead she'd been a student editor on the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender? She may not have been experienced enough for her new job but she certainly had the credentials. This story would have been no more surprising had you replaced "JFK" with "Harvard" or "Yale". wouldn’t say she was “undercredentialed” – she went to law school and and she passed the bar exam – an exam a lot of students from ABA-accredited schools have trouble with. Would you have called her “undercredentialed” had instead she’d been a student editor on the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender?

She may not have been experienced enough for her new job but she certainly had the credentials. This story would have been no more surprising had you replaced “JFK” with “Harvard” or “Yale”.

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