Merged Rob Reiner and his wife apparent victims of homicide

[Chanakya]

Well I'm biased cause I ran from the law . Mainly cause I could not take the stress and did not want to die at age 40. But also because I felt, from doing a bunch of trials, that I could not be 'successful' in an adversarial system without at least bending the rules and compromising my sense of ethics. I refused to play dirty to get ahead. And I got sick of seeing decisions being made by stupid people. Probably why I never was interested in politics either.

Oh, looks like I'd misunderstood you again. I'd taken you to mean that you'd left criminal defense, but had moved off to other areas within law. (I suppose in criminal defense, this issue is the most ...well, dramatic, pronounced. But the principle of it will apply in all areas of litigation, or so I would imagine. And hence my question about how you were navigating that, given your ethics.)

Anyway, clearly we're of the same view as far as this. (In addition, point taken about the stress thing that, as you say, was a factor as well: that's an additional factor, related somewhat I suppose but different than the integrity issue per se.)


eta: And kudos, for having the spine to have been able to walk away from it all. The sunk cost of it, after law school and after five years of practice, must have been colossal. Double cool!

 

[stanfr]

The sunk cost of it, after law school and after five years of practice, must have been colossal. Double cool!

Thanks! Yeah now that I am on career #3 (starving artist, career 2 was atmospheric scientist) I often question my sanity since I probably could have retired early if I had just stuck it out, but then again, could have died of heart disease. So, no regrets, it was a great experience, I could write a book about some of the outrageous cases I handled. Gave me a solid foundation on how to evaluate quality of evidence, which obviously comes in handy in today's virtual world.