And another thing...

[rivkat]

Not that I don't appreciate the various Lex-centric headlines offered for our viewing and vidding pleasure, but "acquitted" means tried and found not guilty; "cleared" means never tried in the first place. I know, I know, a show that features the forests! and ports! of Kansas is not supposed to be realistic. Yet I still squirm.

And what the heck was that paralegal thinking? She was getting away with her evil scheme, as far as she knew, and could have gotten Lex in worse trouble by calling the cops on him -- which is what I presumed she was going to do when Lex came to his lawyer's office and touched the dead lawyer he used to fuck who had just rejected his case. Did they just run out of show-time for evidence to mount against Lex? Could they not think of a way he could get out of trouble in under 42 minutes, so they had to have her go Evil Overlord? She said he hadn't been caught, but (as a paralegal might be expected to know, as might an ordinary functioning human being) being out on bail does not equate to "not caught."

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[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm pretty sure that the lawyer herself violated the Kansas Rules Relating to Discipline of Attorneys. Hard to argue her withdrawal mid-investigation wouldn't be materially adverse to Lex's interests.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, but that's so subtle I didn't even bother to worry about it -- as cesperanza might say, she was a lawyer in the way that Ray Kowalski on Due South is a cop, which is to say: not at all. I don't hope for fidelity to any profession, whether it be medical, professorial, or legal on SV. I just hope for minimal insane troll logic -- and the paralegal deciding to put Lex in a burning ring of fire when he was well on his way to a date with the electric chair is insane troll logic.

I guess, though, that I can understand how Lex could drive a woman bonkers. Hey, maybe it's Lex's insanity-generating field that makes Clark act so stupid around him.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

The other point -- completely irrelevant to how they wrote the story, but practical -- is that regardless of the ethics rules Lex would be wise to let his pissed-off attorney go if she decided she didn't want to represent him. She might lose her license for fucking up his case, but he stands to lose a lot more.