Legally Rambling (9/30/2009) I sat in my office today jaming to the Jonas Brothers and preparing for my next consultation. Ok, so I'm their oldest fan and I have already been instructed by my associate to turn down the sub woofer in my office. No one said the practice of law had to be conducted in quiet desperation! And, I do love the mystery before a new consultation. Meeting new people is really exciting.
So are all lawyers coin operated? Lets face it people - lawyers and legal battles are expensive. They take massive amounts of money and time. You see, law is a business now - a very big slow business.
Most lawyers can quickly determine whether the client has the ability to fund the fight. However, it just kills me when you run across folks who really need help, have a very complex legal problem and have no means to fund the resolution of the problem. Often, they can't even find someone to give them guidance or just talk to them. I find this over and over. The orphan file - no one wants to take it.
Now every year I take a few orphan files not knowing what to expect. Some we get paid on others we do not. A few I have really been burned on. However, I have also saved businesses, property and peoples futures over the last eleven years. Real - To Kill A Mockingbird stuff. Yes, even lawyers begin to take these matters personally after a while, I am no different.
My brother and I have often opined why we take some files and don't take others. It's a real easy calculus. Generally, we like the case or we do not. Moral - be nice to your lawyer. While I understand that life is unfair, I really don't like to see someone getting the wrong end of the stick. So am I an underdog guy? - well yes. It fits with my Plaintiff background. Lawyers are the great market equalizers and I have fought like hell on many occasions to put a client's life back into equalization.
I quess the bottom line is that I am coin operated (well I have to be to run a business) and unlike some lawyers, I guess I do make change. Ramble On .................
So are all lawyers coin operated? Lets face it people - lawyers and legal battles are expensive. They take massive amounts of money and time. You see, law is a business now - a very big slow business.
Most lawyers can quickly determine whether the client has the ability to fund the fight. However, it just kills me when you run across folks who really need help, have a very complex legal problem and have no means to fund the resolution of the problem. Often, they can't even find someone to give them guidance or just talk to them. I find this over and over. The orphan file - no one wants to take it.
Now every year I take a few orphan files not knowing what to expect. Some we get paid on others we do not. A few I have really been burned on. However, I have also saved businesses, property and peoples futures over the last eleven years. Real - To Kill A Mockingbird stuff. Yes, even lawyers begin to take these matters personally after a while, I am no different.
My brother and I have often opined why we take some files and don't take others. It's a real easy calculus. Generally, we like the case or we do not. Moral - be nice to your lawyer. While I understand that life is unfair, I really don't like to see someone getting the wrong end of the stick. So am I an underdog guy? - well yes. It fits with my Plaintiff background. Lawyers are the great market equalizers and I have fought like hell on many occasions to put a client's life back into equalization.
I quess the bottom line is that I am coin operated (well I have to be to run a business) and unlike some lawyers, I guess I do make change. Ramble On .................
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