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One of the reasons I never made a career in journalism is that I got tired of listening to people lie. Interview people on both sides of a story, and they'll disagree on basic facts. Not opinions, simple facts. And if you confirm the facts by other means and call them on it, they'll say, "Oh, well, by _commissioned_ I meant something else.... You misunderstood me." Even when reporters do their jobs competently, much of what you read in the paper is a lie or half-truth, down to the local level.
That's why I ended up in technical writing. Engineers don't lie; well, some do, but they don't tend to last long. You can't make a bad piece of code work by lying about it!
This lawyer was just looking for self-promotion. I guess I'm cynical, but to me it's obvious that the whole "exhibit" was just a way of getting some cheap publicity for his business.
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