Alan Dershowitz, Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day: Knowing Your Clients

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I start out assuming all my clients are guilty and all my clients are lying to me. That’s my operating assumption as a good lawyer, just like any good doctor would start out believing that the chest pain is not indigestion but a coronary, or the patient who says he never smoked or used cocaine may be lying. So I have rarely been disappointed by my clients because I have rarely expected much of them.

— Criminal defense attorney and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, in a fascinating interview about being wrong.

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