We lawyers sometimes misquote that as "The first thing we do, let's kill all our clients."
Then, after thinking about how we need to pay off student loans and make house payments, we revise it to:
"First thing we do, lets kill all the morons who blame everything on lawyers."
SCO, not SCO's attorneys, are the owners of SCO's claims. Attorneys are ethically obligated to adhere to their clients wishes to the extent possible within the limits of the law. If this mess could rightfully be blamed on SCO's attorneys, I have no doubt that the attorneys on the other side would have already sought appropriate sanctions against them from the court.
I wish somebody had told me the sad reality of how many morons have graduate degrees. I know a graduate of Harvard Law that is such a dunce that sometimes I wonder how he manages to continue breathing. When I was in High School, I was overly impressed with the educated--but it was years before I realized the (occasionally) stark contrast between an educated person and an intelligent person.
I also wish that more critical thinking was taught in High School. My wife and I are trying to remedy that with our kids, but I think that the way public education (at least here in the U.S.) is going, we're going to be stuck with mindless cowboys in office for years to come. It seems like the 60s mentality of not trusting anyone over 30--or at least questioning what leaders and teachers tell us is dying out. Case in point: Why do so many people actually believe that the Iraq war was about bringing democracy to the people of Iraq?
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RAmen.
We lawyers sometimes misquote that as "The first thing we do, let's kill all our clients." Then, after thinking about how we need to pay off student loans and make house payments, we revise it to: "First thing we do, lets kill all the morons who blame everything on lawyers." SCO, not SCO's attorneys, are the owners of SCO's claims. Attorneys are ethically obligated to adhere to their clients wishes to the extent possible within the limits of the law. If this mess could rightfully be blamed on SCO's attorneys, I have no doubt that the attorneys on the other side would have already sought appropriate sanctions against them from the court.
I wish somebody had told me the sad reality of how many morons have graduate degrees. I know a graduate of Harvard Law that is such a dunce that sometimes I wonder how he manages to continue breathing. When I was in High School, I was overly impressed with the educated--but it was years before I realized the (occasionally) stark contrast between an educated person and an intelligent person. I also wish that more critical thinking was taught in High School. My wife and I are trying to remedy that with our kids, but I think that the way public education (at least here in the U.S.) is going, we're going to be stuck with mindless cowboys in office for years to come. It seems like the 60s mentality of not trusting anyone over 30--or at least questioning what leaders and teachers tell us is dying out. Case in point: Why do so many people actually believe that the Iraq war was about bringing democracy to the people of Iraq?