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Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke by flexie on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:33PM (#6955739)
Lawyers should be responsible to their clients, not serve as an extra layer of tax informants. Governments already have hundreds of thousands in their employ. And please spare your hypocracy remarks for someone you know.
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Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke by AndrewKemendo on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:30PM (#6956058)
Lawyers should be responsible to their clients, not serve as an extra layer of tax informants.

I was under the impression this is how it worked eg. that lawyers' only responsibility are to their client. Otherwise you would get some kind of weird conflict of interest in every case.

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Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke by judk on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:25PM (#6956024)
Lawyers are partly agents of the government. The alternative would be to make private lawyering illegal and to require all lawyer-type work to be done at goverenment offices.
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