Sep. 12, 2018
Lawyers have to represent!
Whether they reciprocate, or others join me in doing so, I will respect the lawyers who represent clients because they need the help. That is lawyering at its best.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
The more I teach law, the more I realize my beliefs about the law are not the norm. I believe lawyers have a responsibility to represent clients with whom they themselves disagree. That conviction is called "old school" nowadays. It was taken for granted once.
Before he was our second president, John Adams was a colonial lawyer, a successful one at that. After the Boston Massacre, in 1770, he was asked to be defense counsel for the ...
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