LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – The Wall Street Journal – When President Bush issued an executive order in May barring federal agencies from hiring private lawyers on a contingency fee basis, the press corps yawned. But Mr. Bush was getting out ahead of one of the bigger legal battles now raging across the country: prosecutorial neutrality.
America’s legal system is based on the idea that government officials act on behalf of the public interest, not for personal profit. That’s why we don’t pay policemen per arrest, judges a percentage of damages they award, or prosecutors a bounty for each conviction.
