http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/2012/04/27/clients-you-will-meet-the-idiot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clients-you-will-meet-the-idiot Tue, 21 May 2013 16:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/2012/04/27/clients-you-will-meet-the-idiot/#comment-10023 Clients You Will Meet: The Faux Victim | THE ATTORNEY AT LARGE Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:10:07 +0000 http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/?p=3860#comment-10023 [...] had one client — also an Idiot — who was a drug addict and who was shocked — SHOCKED, I TELL YOU — that her baby [...]

]]> http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/2012/04/27/clients-you-will-meet-the-idiot/#comment-10012 The Attorney At Large Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:42:15 +0000 http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/?p=3860#comment-10012 Unfortunately, I think we all learn the Idiot lesson the hard way. Learning how to turn down business when you’re a new lawyer and broke is *hard*. Figuring out that your time is valuable, even when you’re not getting paid, is also hard!

]]> http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/2012/04/27/clients-you-will-meet-the-idiot/#comment-10011 Proto Attorney Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:05:52 +0000 http://www.attorneyatlarge.us/?p=3860#comment-10011 I wish you’d published this about 2 years ago, before I very naively took a giant idiot for a client. And he was incredibly obnoxious. It was horrible. I wanted to stab myself in the eye every time I spoke with him, or heard his voice on my voicemail. It was definitely not worth the pittance I ended up making on the case. I spent it all on alcohol to make the pain go away.

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