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Law Practice

May 13, 2006

There Are Limits on Zealous Advocacy

Letter to the Editor - I was fascinated by your May 2 article on the lawsuit against Joseph Cavallo for invasion of privacy ("Challenging the Limits of Advocacy," Los Angeles Daily Journal; "When Does a Defender Go Too Far?" San Francisco Daily Journal).

Letter to the Editor

I was fascinated by your May 2 article on the lawsuit against Joseph Cavallo for invasion of privacy ("Challenging the Limits of Advocacy," Los Angeles Daily Journal; "When Does a Defender Go Too Far?" San Francisco Daily Journal).
      As a professional responsibility lawyer, I was struck by two things: (1) Cavallo's statement that he was justified in "going all out" in his defense of [Gregory] Haidl and (2) ...

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