In particular, Gordon argues that a lawyer's right to engage in
zealous advocacy only makes sense to the extent that lawyers also help support the system within which such advocacy ends up being constructive:
Not exact matches
At minimum, Canadian lawyer's
advocacy should
only be resolute, not
zealous.
The difficulty of course is that lawyers are trained to be gladiators for our clients even when our «
zealous advocacy»
only fuels the irrational behavior.