“Advocatus sed non latro, res miranda populo.”
The above Latin tag, usually applied to St. Ives (or Yves or Ivo), Patron of Lawyers, can be translated, “A lawyer but not a crook, a thing wondrous to the people!” It has the amusing implication that, in the case of lawyers, bare honesty itself can count as a miracle worthy of canonization. Some of my lawyer friends bristle when I deploy it. Others grimly smile at its truth. Your legal mileage may vary.
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