On Aug 25, 7:56 pm, Terry Pulliam Burd >
wrote:
> As many of you know, I'm a paralegal in a law firm, [snip]
> ....
> My first reaction when my boss told me this story was that when we
> finish the current lawsuit, we not take on any more work for him. If
> he's willing to cheat a restaurant, he won't hesitate to cheat anyone
> else. And a client like that we do not need or want. [snip]
>
> Am I overreacting?
>
I think so, in two ways. First, ethical and competent defense
attorneys take on guilty clients all the time. Civil attorneys take
on clients with questionable positions/claims all the time. Think
about why that is, and note that most ethics professors will
comfortably argue that it's a good thing.

Secondly, as the other responses show, the situation is not that far
removed from alert bargain shopping. "Cheating" is too rigid a
judgment -aem.