The benefit of being a lawyer...

Is that if someone REALLY drives me up the wall I KNOW that they're hurting themselves more than they hurt me :)



Mr. C, I sympathise, your divorce proceedings were a shambles and you, well, you just got fleeced. BAADLY. In fact we are going to try to have the whole damn financial package re-evaluated so you don’t end up checking into a cardboard hotel for the rest of your days.


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*ahem* remember how I said that a pissed off judge is more dangerous than a grizzly bear?

Well, a close second MAY be your own pissed off lawyer - especially if that translates into a pissed of firm full of people with keen intellects, fertile imagination and cruel senses of humour.


Me: *grousing and laughing about Mr. C*
Colleague D: I can't believe he tried to sue you! Has he tried formally?
Me: Only with our own firm so far! *laughs*
D: *laughs* Hey, waaaaait...
Me: What?
D: Well, think about it. He has taken formal (albeit abortive) attempts to sue you over your performance in this case, right?
Me: yessss
D: And you're currently launching an appeal so his wife only takes the shirt off his back and not several feet of skin as well?
Me: Also yes
D: C'mon, he's launching legal action against you! You can ethically drop the case - hell, it can be argued that ETHICALLY you SHOULD drop the case or at least pass it to another lawyer, maybe even another firm.
Me: I don't normally drop cases no matter what...
D: I know, fanatic that you are. But if he's suing you about your performance to date, well that's reason to stop to limit the "damage" right? To say nothing of conflict of interests. Actually I think this is a stretch and ethically I COULD continue the case... though her argument is not without merit. And while I'm better at brutally holding up my ethical code like some kind of Lancelot, she is MUCH better at loop holes than I'll ever be
Me: If I dropped the case now or handed it to another lawyer it would delay his appeal considerably and cost him a lot more money and hassle.
D: Yes it would
Me: And that would be awful
D: Terrible. Truly
Me: *snorfle*
D: *cackle*