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The profession stands at a fork. Continue defending those who bled the public purse dry, or redirect brilliance toward accountability. The first path is profitable. The second is what the Lawyer’s Oath demands.

What if the country’s most prominent lawyers stopped shielding those behind the flood control scandal and joined the prosecution instead? That single decision would change the odds. The grafters would lose their elite defenders. The state would gain sharper weapons. Convictions would no longer be delayed into irrelevance.

But the opposite is happening.

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