"...Thompson is a lawyer. He has also been an actor, a Senator, and a Lobbyist. Depending on which of those hats he is wearing at any particular time, he has different rights and different obligations. There are many behaviors that are perfectly appropriate for an actor to do, but that are not all right for an attorney to do in a courtroom. John Adams was not lobbying for those British soldiers, he was their lawyer - representing them in court before a judge.
Lobbying is not lawyering. As the Tennessee Attorney General ruled in 2005: "lobbying is not per se the practice of law." You don't have to be a lawyer to be a lobbyist, and in fact some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington are not. ( Examples from the Washingtonian's list of the 50 biggest include Linda Daschle, David Carmen, J.C. Watts who are not lawyers))
The abortion rights group paid Thompson money to lobby for them. They did not hire him as their lawyer..."
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