Perspective
Jul. 26, 2014
A judge bribed is justice denied
This article won't teach you anything about ethics you don't already know - unless you don't know it is unethical to bribe judges, buy court-appointed experts, and ghostwrite a judgment in your client's favor. By Jennifer A. Becker
Full disclosure: this article won't teach you anything about ethics you don't already know. That is, unless you don't know it is unethical to bribe judges, buy court-appointed experts, and ghostwrite a judgment in your client's favor. But the saga of New York attorney Steven Donziger, and his role in the Amazon oil field litigation, is too fascinating not to take a moment and ponder. This past March, Judge Lewis Kaplan of th...
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