If you have a lawyer draft a carefully worded apology, is it really an apology?

[bluestateguy]

Discuss.

[Hekate]

2. No. Now you "discuss."

[bvf]

11. Thread winner. n/t.

[Coventina]

3. No. A true apology comes from the heart. Not your lawyer. n/t

[Bonobo]

8. Yes. nt

[Man from Pickens]

4. I'll have to refer that question to my lawyer

I'm only here so I don't get fined

[moondust]

5. Isn't that called a Press Release? n/t

[PoliticAverse]

6. "I have been advised by my Attorney that the answer to that question is yes". n/t

[MADem]

7. So long as the apology says 'sorry' and admits error -- yes.

The alternative approach can be found in this illustrative video:

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I don't think that method is terribly useful.

[Rex]

9. It would depend on if the intent is sincere or not imo. nt.

nt.

[Shrike47]

10. If you are likely to be sued for what you said or did, attorney is the way to go. Or if you plan to

sue when you get fired for doing/saying what you did or said.

It's not a real apology, but then, why should you have to apologize for what you did or said? Too damned much political correctness! (this part is sarcasm)

[MADem]

12. You seriously think Senator Sanders would sue?

As for apologizing after getting it wrong, that didn't help Dan Rather...and he, at least, had his facts right, but his evidence wrong. Ms. Rhem doesn't seem to have even facts on her side, and she likely has a contract that allows the bosses to show her the door if she becomes a liability.

[jberryhill]

14. I believe the question was in relation to the Texas cop

Unless Sen. Sanders was also at the pool party then, no, I don't think he would sue that cop.

[MADem]

16. I thought it was in response to the NPR interview and apology.

That cop assaulted a teenager. He isn't going to apologize his way out of criminal charges. That interviewer didn't push Sanders' head into the grass and sit on him...!

[jberryhill]

17. I wasn't aware that Diane Rehm's lawyer read a written apology...

But, as noted below, I don't know why people issue public apologies in the first place.

Apologies are never accepted.

[MADem]

18. Draft is not a synonym for read.

My sense was that the poster may have been suggesting that Rehm had a lawyer write that thing she published. OP is vague... maybe that was a device to stimulate discussion...?

[treestar]

13. A lawyer represents you

So they can speak and advocate for you. You are entitled to legal advice. This is a free country. It basically functions under the rule of law. Maybe there are problems, but generally the rule of law prevails. If you thought you could get into trouble over how you apologize, why should you not get to ask a lawyer what would you say to avoid that?

[jberryhill]

15. The public apology ritual is pointless

No one has ever issued a public apology for anything that was considered "sufficient" anyway.

Who gives a shit whether someone who wronged a bunch of people somewhere apologizes for it in the media to them, you, or anyone else?

There is no conceivable combination of words, whether spoken by this guy, his lawyer, or anyone else, that is going to make anyone who has determined that the cop is a scumbag say, "Oh, okay, that's fine then."

So what's the point, really?

[Calista241]

19. When you're likely facing significant civil liability, an apology is a very dumb thing to do.

It may sound fake, and not carry the weight I would want an apology to take. But if your future depends on it...

[CTyankee]

21. He is building his defense with this statement. So he achieves two objectives:

"apologizing" and explaining the mitigating circumstances that it happened.

I don't know why the McKinney PD didn't understand that something could very well go wrong by sending him out and not having him sidelined for a bit and offered psychological counseling...or requring it...

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

25. This

I think they requested his resignation in record time because they know that the department might be liable sending an emotionally stressed officer out on a call.

How often does one respond to someone who just shot himself in front of his kids? I can't imagine dealing with that.

He very obviously couldn't deal with the subsequent call at the pool.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

20. Depends if you and your family have been threatened

nt

[frylock]

24. oh noes! has the officer been threatened?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. I'm sorry you don't accept my professionally crafted apology.

This faux apology is from JustABozoOnThisBus, not DU, Skinner, nor from Robb or any other alleged dingbats.

In the case that this non-apology apology is insufficient, a brief period of face-palming will be offered in lieu of actual rehab, thus resetting all counters for hides.

[raouldukelives]

23. Legally, yes. Morally, no. nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. You title does not address the person's intent.

A real apology requires that a person feels some sense of remorse over the action and want forgiveness.

A carefully worded apology by a lawyer does not address the person's intent.

[elleng]

27. Perhaps. Depends on your intention.

(I'm a lawyer!!!)

[meow2u3]

28. It sounds to me more like damage control than a sincere apology

A carefully worded letter of apology by one's lawyer sounds to me like three things: damage control; an admission of guilt; and a non-apolology apology for being caught doing something one shouldn't be doing.

[leveymg]

29. What it may lack in sincerity, it makes up with good spelling and grammar.

"First we kill all the lawyers" and then the proper spellers.