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Hunter’s Corner
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Those strange beings from Planet Confidential

ANALYSIS: Lawyers' obsession with secrecy is contrary to public interest in outcome of class actions, as we see in mammoth CBL case.

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

Tim Hunter Fri, 09 Jun 2023

Lawyers, bless them, are like one of those alien species encountered by Captain Kirk. While James T discovers they look and sound like us, despite living on a distant planet, he learns they are oblivious to certain common human understandings.

On Planet Confidential, as we could call it, the

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Tim Hunter Fri, 09 Jun 2023
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