One of my favorite legal quotes is from Elihu Root, a famous Wall Street lawyer a hundred years ago or so. He said "About half of a decent lawyer's practice is telling prospective clients that they are damn fools and should stop."
Via Trade Secrets Today.
Bonus quote from the same source for litigation lawyers:
Under Rule 11, eventually, after expensive litigation, a party might convince a judge to sanction a bully's lawyer for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Rule 11 awards are extremely rare, kind of like sightings of Bigfoot.
Best advice I ever got from a lawyer: pick up the phone and stop sending e-mails
ReplyDeleteTrue, the 98% of the time when you aren't dealing with pathological liars with whom every word must be documented.
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