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Serving the Guilty
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  • Thomas L. Shaffer, Notre Dame Law School
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Article
Publication Date
1-1-1980
Publication Information
26 Loy. L. Rev. 71 (1980)
Abstract

My purpose here is to ask whether there is a moral way for a lawyer to serve the guilty. I think this is an issue Mr. Rightor would have enjoyed. He was devoted to the instruction of future lawyers, particularly those who studied law at this law school and were enrolled in his classes in professional ethics. He was equally devoted, in the midst of a busy and successful law practice, to care and compassion for the occasional professional colleague who had, as Mr. McDonald said in his eulogy, "through ignorance or . . . financial plight . . . allowed his feet to stumble." Mr. Rightor was devoted as well to the victims of lawyers and of the society that lawyers create.

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Reprinted with permission of Loyola Law Review.

Citation Information
Thomas L. Shaffer. "Serving the Guilty" (1980)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas_shaffer/71/