Childlike lawyers | Lauris Liepa | TEDxRiga

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What can a lawyer learn from a child?

Lauris Liepa suggests there is a lot. In his talk, he touches on different aspects of lawyer's profession and offers a solution to improve it.

Lauris is a sworn advocate, a lector at University of Latvia and Riga Graduate School of Law.

His specialisation is commercial law and civil law. In the last 10 years, Lauris has devoted his academic activities to the issues of Legal Ethics.

Lauris Liepa thinks that a good lawyer applies the law to achieve the client’s objectives, while an excellent lawyer aims at improving the law — to make it as close as possible to the principles of justice.

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