We've all heard the jokes about dishonest lawyers. (Have sympathy for the honest attorney who gets "tarred with the same brush" as the shysters...) Well, here's a brutally honest quote from one of our country's most famous barristers, Clarence Darrow:
I undertook to serve this company... believing they had an ordinance procured by the aid of boodle. I am satisfied that judged by the higher law... I am practically a thief. I am taking money that I did not earn, which comes to me from men who did not earn it, but who get it because they have the chance to get it. I take it without performing any useful service to the world, and I take a thousand times as much as my serices are worth even assuming they were useful and honest.
I copied that quote from a book I'll gladly recommend to anyone who enjoys biographies or history. I didn't know much at all about Clarence Darrow until I picked up this book after hearing an interview with the author. The interview was fascinating and gave me the impetus to purchase the book. I'm so glad I did - Darrow is a fascinating character! The book is Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
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