A lawyer's advice is a conclusion reached after perhaps hours or days combing through volumes of law to exhaust all the authorities and find all the law affecting your problem. A lawyer's whole career depends upon unswerving loyalty to clients. A lawyer may, however, see weakness in a particular case and may know that a court fight will be both expensive and probably futile for a client. In such a case, a lawyer may advise the client to bargain or, with the client's permission, may bargain for the client. It has, with truth, been said that a settlement, even though for an amount less than claimed, may be far better than an expensive, lengthy lawsuit, the result of which is uncertain.
Litigation can be a luxury.
Lawyers recognize this and pursue conciliation and settlement wherever possible and advisable. It is one of the glories of America that every person is considered innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, every defendant in a criminal case has a right to all the protection which the law gives to an innocent person. It is the duty of an accused person's lawyer to see that a client has the benefit of all rights under the Constitution of the United States and of the state, the laws passed by the duly elected legislative bodies and the decisions announced by the courts over centuries of human experience. A lawyer must see that the client receives a fair trial and is tried for the alleged crime only on the basis of competent evidence, properly produced.