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Be a Lawyer
In keeping with the view that lawyers are first and foremost advisors, every lawyer owes every client a duty to exercise independent professional judgment for the client's benefit. This is true both in third-party payer situations and when the client is personally responsible for the bills.
The duty to exercise independent professional judgment requires that a lawyer be free to consider and recommend any available strategy for achieving an identified goal. In the context of insurance defense, this means that, in theory, a lawyer must be able to consider and recommend any lawful strategy for minimizing the amount a liability claimant recovers by way of a judgment or settlement. In practice, of course, the pros and cons of many strategies are sufficiently patent that a lawyer need not waste time on them. One can be free to follow the road less traveled yet have...