Actors and biographers, I suggest to Jacques Vergès, sometimes remark that they retain some trace of every character in whom they are required to immerse themselves. Can that happen to lawyers? I ask him.That last noun might equally be replaced by another: comrades, say, or co-conspirators. His friends and associates have included men like the dictator Pol Pot, and Ilich Ramirez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, who blew up Marseille railway station and shot dead – among others – two French policemen (“a soldier”, Vergès once called the Venezuelan, “in a noble cause”). Then...…Actors and biographers, I suggest to Jacques Vergès, sometimes remark that they retain some trace of every character in whom they are required to immerse themselves. Can that happen to lawyers? I ask him.That last noun might equally be replaced by another: comrades, say, or co-conspirators. His friends and associates have included men like the dictator Pol Pot, and Ilich Ramirez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, who blew up Marseille railway station and shot dead – among others – two French policemen (“a soldier”, Vergès once called the Venezuelan, “in a noble cause”). Then...WW…