I have spent a lot of time lately trying to prepare my law students for the fact not all their clients will be right. This is not exactly stop-the-presses news, but it does pull them up short a little when you force them to give some thought to the ramifications of that fact.
The cosmos passes more laws than Congress, and one of the most immutable is the Law of Averages. While I am sure there are quibbles to be voiced, the most straightforward legal application of that law is that roughly 50 percent of the parties to lawsuits are right. The rest of them are wrong.
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