RebYidd23…………..
NO..it is not an attorney’s job to condone anything and everything.
We are ‘officers of the court’ and are not permitted to put on the stand a witness we know will not be telling the truth.
In fact if a client insists on testifying and we know that he/she will be committing perjury, we MUST meet with the judge in chambers and reveal that we have told the client not to testify falsely and that the testimony is being given over our objections.
BTW….here in CT a couple of years ago there was a Hareidi Attorney/Pulpit Rabbi who lost his law license and was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for processing fraudulent loan documents. He didn’t commit the fraud, but he certified them to be true.