{"id":965,"date":"2013-10-28T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2013-10-28T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:00:23","slug":"the-curse-of-the-zealous-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-curse-of-the-zealous-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of the Zealous Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-curse-of-the-zealous-advocate\/attorney-court-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-970\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-970\" title=\"attorney.court.\" src=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/attorney.court_.1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Back when, in the early part of the last century, lawyers&#8217; Code of Ethics required &#8220;zealous advocacy&#8221; in support of a client&#8217;s cause.\u00a0 This historical roots for this demand can be found in this excellent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/publications\/litigation_journal\/2011_12\/fall\/where_did_zeal_go.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in the American Bar Association&#8217;s Litigation magazine.\u00a0\u00a0 It is often said that such aggressive and intense commitment to one&#8217;s client&#8217;s interests, only, may have a place in the world of criminal defense (and a few other places) the world of divorce is a poor forum for this kind of &#8220;my client and no other&#8221; myopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when, in the early part of the last century, lawyers&#8217; Code of Ethics required &#8220;zealous advocacy&#8221; in support of a client&#8217;s cause.\u00a0 This historical roots for this demand can be found in this excellent\u00a0article in the American Bar Association&#8217;s Litigation magazine.\u00a0\u00a0 It is often said that such aggressive and intense commitment to one&#8217;s client&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-curse-of-the-zealous-advocate\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,27],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}