The Role of Compassion in the Attorney-Client Relationship

I think one thing that's happening is that attorneys are very much educated to be confident unto the point of arrogance. And clients often either don't feel authorized to push back on their attorney's ideas or they do an attorney's then just maybe steam rolled them. So, you know, trying to minimize legal consequences is certainly always a part of our job and it's often a totally valid thing for lawyers to be doing. But the idea that an attorney's job is solely to mitigate legal fallout is not actually entirely accurate. What lawyers are supposed to do is work with the client to help the client articulate their goals and then the attorney should use their expertise and their experience to help theclient lawfully pursue