David Sweet

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Sacrifice, Atonement, and Legal Ethics

113 Yale L.J. 219 (2003) Lawyers surely understand sacrifice. The business of representation requires a willingness to subjugate, at least temporarily, one's own priorities, beliefs, and comforts to those of another. Today, that willingness is tested and demanded with unprecedented force. Corporate litigators toil around the clock to perfect their clients' cases. Public defenders stagger under the heaviest caseloads their...