If you have a bad lawyer and you get convicted, you can always argue on appeal that your lawyer was ineffective and get a new trial.

CNN: The Pellicano brief: A fool for a client

The Legal Aid lawyer is duty bound to defend such people with the utmost vigor, even if the lawyer knows that the client is guilty and is likely to do more bad things if the lawyer is successful in his or her defense.

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Well, if history is our teacher, he would do better if he had a lawyer, even a bad one.

CNN: The Pellicano brief: A fool for a client

The American Lawyer called the terms a bad deal for consumers.

CNN: Moving Money Through State Capitals

Americans understand that if you own 80 percent of a company (like the federal government owns of AIG), you are in the position to tell senior management what to do, and if you can't, you need a new lawyer, because you wrote a bad contract.

CNN: Commentary: How Obama can repair AIG damage

After pitching some really bad ideas, I got hooked up with a lawyer out in San Francisco who wanted to do an app (I was in Austin).

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Tweeting on the news, Twitter's lawyer Alex Macgillivray described it as a "bad day for the internet".

BBC: Screenshot of Google+

"The adjournment creates additional tension and has a bad effect on the health of the defendants, " said defence lawyer Vladimir Sheitanov.

BBC: Libya delays Aids case verdicts

American litigation has gotten nearly as bad as the British system of justice in the 19th Century when Charles Dickens wrote the lawyer-bashing novel Bleak House.

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