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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I meet someone who was a lawyer for Phillip Morris and he seemed nice enough at first.  I should have known that a person would have to be rotten to the core to do a job like that. Pure evil.

Judge people by what they do, not what they say.[/quote]

You can't be serious.  First, every client is entitled to representation.  Second, many claims by tobacco plaintiffs these days are nonsense, or at least questionable enough you can't blame someone for taking the other side.  Third, many lawyers at large firms my not have the ability to choose who they work for.  I am sure you would say they should quit to maintain their moral purity, but that would often be career suicide and leave someone totally unable to pay back loans and support themselves.

It really easy to rail against evil big companies and the attorneys who work for them, but often (certainly not always) they are on the side of right or at least there is plenty of grey on all sides.[/quote]

There are plenty of jobs, no need to sell your soul to the devil. So don't make excuses for someone who acts as hired gun for an evil cause.[/quote]

They aren't evil.  And more fundamentally, there aren't necessarily other (at least remotely comparable) jobs.  Say you start at Bigfirm X and are then assigned a tobacco case (or any other case you, final arbiter of good and evil, determines is evil).  If you "take a stand" and do the quote "morally right" thing, you almost certainly won't find another firm job.  With little experience, you will struggle finding a half decent job period.  Your ability to pay back loans and build a life will be severely impaired.  All so you didn't have to work for an "evil" client who may very well have actually been on the side of right on the case to which you were assigned.  (This may be hard for you to comprehend, but the little guy isn't always right and he corporation isn't always bad.)

So, please don't break your neck falling off your high horse.[/quote]

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