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Opinion

Lawyering now a dangerous profession

THE EAR - The Freeman
September 29, 2018 | 12:00am

THE LAST THING WE DO. After a lawyer was killed in Tagum City, another was recently gunned down in Roxas City. Now lawyers are not feeling so safe anymore.

 

“Mamaligya na lang ta ice candy ani. Kapaet,” one of them said on social media.

“Didn’t they realize Shakespeare was being ironic when he said ‘let’s kill all the lawyers’?” another said.

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