trblmkr

This blog aims to accomplish two things. Given how quickly events are reported, misreported, and dropped by the MSM, we want to go back and see if we can't find some answers to questions that were and were not asked. Second, because the lazy MSM's chief tool for what passes as journalism is to quote pundits without having done any homework,the right questions don't get asked. We want to provide our readers the contact information for these pundits so we can ask them directly.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Question on a legal term
What’s it called when a lawyer’s client tells the lawyer exactly what he/she wants as a result of the lawyer’s ‘opinion’?
This is exactly what happened with Yoo and Bybee with the ‘client’ being Addington representing Cheney and, by extension Bush.
In reading today’s NY Times Business section article about how Bank of America claims it ‘relied’ on outside lawyers to determine the legality of keeping Merrill Lynch bonus information secret from B of A shareholders I was struck by the similarity.

There must be a cute word for this in the legal world. Does anybody know what it is?

posted by trblmkr @ 1:31 PM

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