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Please don’t be offended, but how can a frum Jew be a lawyer? A lawyer takes cases of people he either knows is guilty or does not know is innocent and yet claims and defends his innocence with untruths. A lawyer defends thieves in their attempts to skirt their obligations. A lawyer, by proffession, lies in open court. Either knowingly or knowing it may well be lies. A lawyers duty is to seek the freedom of his clients who are a danger to society.
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That is not what most lawyers do.
A lawyer sits and reads thousands of pages of documents looking for contract clauses which might be relevant to the transaction at hand. A lawyer drafts thousand page contracts based on previous contracts to accord with the precise terms that the parties want in this case. A lawyer parses through obscure sections of the Code of Federal Regulations and ultimately concludes there is no correct answer. A lawyers duty is to keep on reading and sending emails until he falls asleep in his office.