In light of the short week, we’re not blogging. We’ll be back Monday.

In the meantime, it’s worth noting one attorney that forgot the fundamental rule among lawyers: Work hard to throw your client a life preserver, but don’t let the client take you down with them.

Today was one of reckoning for prominent Los Angeles attorney Terry Christensen. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $250,000 for conspiring with Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano (pictured) to wiretap billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s former wife, for which Christensen was convicted in August.

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