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When reporting your partner's professional misconduct would destroy your shared livelihood

My law firm partner knowingly filed false documents in a case three years ago and I just found out, and she's saying if I report it we'll both lose our licenses and our employees will lose their jobs, but the opposing party was hurt by those lies and deserves to know what happened.

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They're facing the terrible mathematics of justice when doing the right thing would harm innocent people who depend on them.

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