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Originally posted by valkyrie
Any defense attorney worth a shit will tell his or her clients to STFU. Any defense attorney worth a shit isn't going to say anything to anybody unless it's going to get some good publicity for the client, which is unlikely in most cases.
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For the most part, that's true. There are exceptions that you didn't mention though. For example, if your client is a public figure and his or her reputation is important to their income, it's helpful to at least be cooperative with the media insofar as getting your client's side of the story as much air time/news print as the other side is getting.
A few months ago, my father represented a platinum-selling recording artist (from the 90's) in a child-custody related matter where he was accused of being a dead-beat dad. It was front page/lead story material (very damaging to him) until we had some brief conversations with the reporters assigned to the story after which, due to the fact that the ex-wife is a lying hoe-bag-she-devil, the story disappeared and our client has actually been getting a few gigs here and there since (I think the brief publicity may have actually helped).
At any rate, I do see some lawyers representing clients only to get face-time on TV and to see their names in print (see Gloria Allred). Such individuals should be censored in my opinion by their respective Bar associations.