It was the case where Felicia actually went to the house where the robbery had occurred (and the security guard had died in a fall making it felony murder)--and she figured out that the guy who testified against his buddies was lying about his standing on the grass at a certain time and seeing everything go down--Quote:
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--because the sprinklers went on at that very time and Felicia got soaked. As he would have--if he had actually been standing there.
In other words she followed up to see if the guy was lying or not--and he was--but the office toad went behind her back and took all the credit for that.
Aside from the possible moral issues about lying--this kind of behavior is often encouraged by law schools--the "Win at any cost" mentality that students are taught.
Though law schools will deny they do this--even the professors join in--they teach their courses in a certain way so as NOT to give all the pertient info about their subject so that only a few students actually understand what is going on.
It's called "hiding the ball" and the "justification" for it is to find those few students who can figure out the real info on the subject of the course.
Of course anyone who knows someone who went to law school--or whose parent(s) are lawyers--will know what's going on--but most of the students do not.
It's unfair and it's dirty--and the office toad's backstabbing is merely an extension of this kind of thinking.
That's why I like this show. It's obviously written by someone who knows about these things--and who isn't afraid to air the dirty laundry. Witness this week's episode in which Felicia tried to get her boss to tell the judge how the plaintiffs had paid off the juror--but the boss said they did't have to do that "so long as they followed the law. Which they already had. Period." According to her anyway.
Very gutsy to show this kind of thinking IMO.
