how long before an overworked wt lawyer says SCREW THIS!!!

designs

A Law firm can quit, but I beleive they still cannot betray a clients confidentiality?

Calebs Airplane

Lawyers are taught to look for loop-holes not "truth".

How would you know what lawyers are trained to look for? I expect that the WT lawyers, and the case may have been assigned to outside counsel, are devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simons of Conti fame said the WT lawyers were polite and professional. If you have the WT mindset, you don't drop troublesome clients. A better long range legal plan for the WT would be to promptly report sexual abuse allegations to the police. Detach WT Legal from the process b/c it has potential liability. Let the police do their jobs b/c they have the expertise.

LostGeneration

I would guess the dudes in Cali are getting paid, so I'm sure they are simply going to take the $$$$$ for as long as it lasts, and that will probably be a very long time.

Now the in house lawyers in NY, I wonder if they get standard bethelite pay, what is it these days $130 a month??? Its gotta be tempting to bust outta there and earn some real $$$$$$.

sloppyjoe2

I know first hand that standard bethelite lawyers get bethelite pay.

JeffT

How would you know what lawyers are trained to look for?

Probably watching TV lawyers. I gave up watching "How to Get Away with Murder" because I could not suspend enough disbelief long enough to get through an episode. Apparently the writers have never heard of discovery, and the ethical violations would get everybody involved disbarred.

Band, I agree with your prescription for the WTBS. If the instructions to the elders were "if you hear about abuse, turn it over to the police immediately," and they did background checks on anybody that was going to be around some one else's kids, their legal problems would largely or entirely go away.

James Brown

I'm not a lawyer.

But I was a court reporter and a deputy sheriff,

and I have lived 62 years.

It seems people hire lawyers to keep or get there tit out of the wringer.

If a

Lawyer says he can't do that or shows he cant do that people hire another lawyer.

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It is obvious they look for loopholes.

I have personally seen many times where they have a guilty client,

And they plead not guilty. They have found a loophole or think they have.

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Everyone has seen that.

Look at O.J simpson.

The world could see he was guilty and his lawyers plead not guilty.

They found loopholes and exploited them.

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If I was in trouble and had money and my lawyer told me he

didn't look for loopholes.

I would fire him and get one who did.

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It is possible that lawyers are not trained for that,

I haven't been to law school.

But the lawyers who were not trained for that or who do not figure it out,

probably end up in some other line of work.

Or end up shuffling papers like a paralegal under someone

who has learned it or has figured it out.

Balaamsass2

I knew three JW Attornies in private practice. All three confided WTBTS was CONSTANTLY asking for PRO-BONO work. It almost bankrupted them. All three got regular JOBS so they could tell Watchtower they were "unavailable". They had been sucked dry and were exhausted.

I asked one his biggest problem with JWs. His reply surprised and bothered me at the time. He had been "shocked and embarrased many times in court by "JWs not revealing all the facts and LYING to HIM their Attorney- BEFORE trials". He was "tired of having egg on his face" during trials.

how long before an overworked wt lawyer says SCREW THIS!!!

nowwhat?

punkofnice