1. If I am the client and I pay the attorney, to what or to whom is an attorney's First Duty?  Let us consult the latest Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.) legal encyclopedia, volume 7, section 4 for the answer on what governs an attorney’s loyalties.

Please notice above the specific words:

His [the attorney] first duty is to the courts and to the public and NOT to the client...

Take care to note that the word “NOT to the client” is used instead of “and then to the client”.  The legal expectation is therefore that there is ZERO first duty to the client.  Once we understand that the United States District Courts (USDC) represent the Legislative Branch of our government instead of being a fully independent third arm of government, a Judiciary[1], only then can we realize that the so-called Court will always have its way with a defendant based upon a far more singular perspective than ever intended by our Founders and DEMANDED by Article III of our Founding document, the US Constitution.  Given the age old lawyerly axiom of “Bleed ‘em and plead ‘em”, a jury will certainly have little to do with any outcome.  Given what clearly appears to be the unConstitional Criminal/Civil Rules of Procedure that is used by a judge, even if a defendant is lucky enough to get into a US court with a jury, it’s highly likely that the same will be true.  Since the judge controls the acceptability of all witnesses and evidence, the jury is obviously just for window dressing.

Furthermore, the next words in this Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.) definition  should take our breath away.

…and wherever the duties [as in plural] to his client conflict with those he owes as an officer of the court in the administration of justice, [this word “justice” as used here should beg many questions, first of which is “whose” justice are we speaking] the former must yield to the latter.

My first response as a lay person is… “this cannot be a product of the US justice system.”  But when we review the landscape of our history from circa 1890 forward to when the US Federal Reserve was intentionally bankrupted by its PRIVATE owners in 1928, the definition shown above begins to make sense.  The then oncoming unConstitutional system of collecting an “Income” tax needed to be, shall we say… “controlled”.  After all, the majority of all federal actions in USDC’s are “Income” tax related.

Just for the record, Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.) is an encyclopedia of U.S. law (see Secondary authority). Its full title is Corpus Juris Secundum: Complete Restatement Of The Entire American Law As Developed By All Reported Cases (1936- ) It contains an alphabetical arrangement of legal topics as developed by U.S. federal and state cases (1658-date).

The CJS is an authoritative 20th century American legal encyclopedia that provides a clear statement of each area of law including areas of the law that are evolving and provides footnoted citations to case law and other primary sources of law. Named after the 6th century Corpus Juris Civilis of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire, the first codification of Roman law and civil law. (The name Corpus Juris literally means "body of the law"; Secundum denotes the second edition of the encyclopedia, which was originally issued as Corpus Juris by the American Law Book Company.)

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1. What should be the expected… “legal” relationship, between an attorney and his/her client? ​​​​​​​