It’s these odd little typos that seem to be characteristic of posting from a Blackberry(or similar) that RR has been making that makes me think he is billing someone for these posts. But we all know he thinks ethics are bullshit.
And what would those benefits be, exactly? A higher tax rate on him because the corporations you’re finding loopholes for aren’t picking up their fair share? No, he doesn’t deserve that at all.
Randy, count me as another voice asking you to describe - as specifically as you’d like - what these alleged “benefits” I’m receiving might be. Could you be so kind as to list of a few of them for me? I’ve been receiving them this whole time, apparently, and never even knew it!
I’ve stayed out of this mud wrestling match so far. While I don’t want this taken as an argument from authority, it is just that. I’ve been in the lawyer racket for 43 years now. Mostly in a rural county seat general practice, some trials, some divorces, some real estate, some taxes, some decedents estates. While I’ve never actually added up the time, or written it down for that matter, I expect that I do about $10,000 worth of donated work every year – to be fair some of it doesn’t start out as pro bono but it turns into that before I’m done. I don’t tell you this to gain praise for my charity and general altruism, but as a lead in for this:
The one thing I have learned and learned early is that there is a small percentage of my learned brethren who are self absorbed jackasses with a hard-on for the world who think they are somehow superior beings just because they managed to get through law school and finagle a license out of some unsuspecting high court. By and large they are jerks and one should not waste time even trying to deal with them.
Whiners, snakes and weasels. They never concede that anyone else’s view has merit. That’s why you don’t argue with them. Just schedule the trial and get it over with as fast as possible.
You have introduced a qualifier to the word obligation. You have an obligation but you say “maybe so but its not an ACTUAL obligation because noone is going to force me to do it”
I think we can both agree that obligations can exist without coercion.
You say that you accept that you have a pofessional responsibility to perform pro bono work and you choose not to, that’s fine. It doesn’t exactly make you a role model lawyer but wth not everyone read "to kill a mockingbird " before they went to law school.