An attorney will encounter a number of opportunities to commit unethical acts throughout his or her career. The pressure to act illegally might come from within (someone might take money under the table because she feels like she is owed it); or it could be external (attorney feels like he needs to provide for his family beyond their current income level).
Other times, the pressure can be subtle and sneak up on an attorney who doesn’t realize it until he’s already breached ethical lines. In in the following fictionalized version of an actual account, an attorney reveals how a sequence of seemingly innocuous actions created an environment that was conducive to illegal activity:
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