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chances are “you know the judges, the clerks, the attorneys.” Here all the actors are known.
Because of that, Luke says, cases are more easily settled here. “Knowing the other attorney allows easier communication about a case. You are more informed about how a case will go. If you know the opposing counsel, you can sit down together and come to a middle ground that both sides can live with.” In Luke’s experience, filing a lawsuit is a last resort.
In part, Luke attributes the distrust some people have of lawyers to the ever increasing complexity of the legal system. “The distrust is caused by a misunderstanding of the system,” he says, adding that lawyers themselves had to spend three years in school just to master all the technicalities.
Luke also attributes public distrust of lawyers tb the fact that they often occupy positions of trust involving other people’s money. “When you’re handling money,” he says, “there is always someone who is going to think that another (person) got too much.”
Above all, though, Luke says the adversarial nature of a lawyer’s work is bound to breed a certain prejudice against lawyers. “Lawyers are always in the middle of conflicts, and someone is always going to be unhappy-one person wins, one loses.”
In another vein, what is it exactly that a lawyer is supposed to do? What is his job description? Should he defend only the innocent? According to Luke, his job is to “adequately represent” his client regardless of guilt or innocence. This is not to say that Luke busily conspires against society in behalf of guilty
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