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Convoy organizers try to quash $300 million lawsuit | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

James Manson (the lawyer)'s LinkedIn lists his position as "senior lawyer as Self-Employed" since Sept 2022.

If you have actual prospects, taking a case like this will kill your career unless your career is already over, or you've already joined an embarrassing firm like the JCCF.

I wonder how much money he's scamming off the convoy-coup-crowd.

Edit: Even if you believe in the same causes as the JCCF, there is no denying that they are a firm of losers. They are happy that they have not-lost over 30 cases in the past 23 years.

Their website says that they have 14 lawyers and 7 paralegals. They should not-lose (or even better, win) more than 30 cases a month.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why would it be a career killer? I thought a major point of being a lawyer was that you can set your personal feelings aside to perform in court. A firm passing judgement on a lawyer because they don't like the people he defended sounds like exactly the kind of personal judgement lawyers aren't supposed to be doing.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    (I work with lawyers, but I am not one.)

    It's true that a major part of being in law is setting your personal feelings aside, but you also need to use critical thinking through the scope of professional ethics to represent the best interests of your client.

    The issue that I see others in the profession having isn't with the client of the case, it's with the case and argument(s) themselves.
    The lawyer is wasting the court's time with indefensible arguments, which is likely to end up harming the clients not only in this case, but in their upcoming criminal cases as well.

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