In the legal profession where advocates take up the cause of the oppressed and devote themselves to representing those who have no voice, the calm, deliberative reasoning of lawyers can be overwhelmed by the emotionally charged circumstances of the clients they represent.
Those words were the opening line of a brief filed in a matter in California a few months ago responding to a motion for contempt. They speak to an issue we often see, lawyers becoming too involved in a case or with a client to properly function as both an advocate and an officer of the court.
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