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Originally Posted by Mark17
So if your attorney recommended you lie directly to your bidders, you would follow that advice, in order to keep the phantom auction lots alive and not risk revealing the true situation?
Here you seem to be saying you would go against your attorney's advice, if it meant dealing with your buyers in bad faith.
Everyone who is simplifying this down to: "Do what your attorney says" is basically saying: "your attorney will advise according to your self-interest, so do that - do what is in your self interest. Then hide behind your attorney."
Stuff (and money) trumps all.
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I think you have a flawed idea of an attorney's job. He isn't there to advise you to do what's in your best interest.
What if my best interest is to burn my business down to collect insurance? My attorney will tell me, hey, moron, that's a bad idea.
Attorneys on the board please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine your duty to your client involves giving them sound legal advice, not merely telling them what they want to hear.