LYING
LAWYERS

Topics: Dishonesty; Lying; Truthfulness

References: Exodus 20:16; Ephesians 4:14–15

Lawyers are increasingly bending the truth, not telling the whole truth, or just plain lying. So said more than fifty state and federal judges, lawyers, and academics surveyed by the ABA Journal.

“On the basis of my academic and professional experience, I believe that no felony is committed more frequently in this country than crimes of perjury and false statements,” says Alan Dershowitz, then professor at Harvard Law School.

—Joe M. Sprinkle, “A Call to Honesty,” Decision (October 2000)