Who wants to hear my new conspiracy theory about lawyers
- Can’t legally lie, but they trade in half-truths and misleading language
- Obsessed with contracts
- Required to follow the letter (but not the spirit) of the law
- Really good at exploiting loopholes
- Range from semi-helpful to openly malevolent
Conclusion?? Faeries
Tag: lawyers
The prosecutor who subpoenaed and cross-examined Hitler in 1931 for a murder trial against four brownshirts was a Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten. The three-hour testimony left Hitler so unnerved and humiliated that he forbade anyone speak Litten’s name in his presence, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Today, the German bar association is called the Hans Litten Association, and every year they give out the Hans Litten Award for excellence in the legal profession. That’s how you commemorate history.