Gotta love ambulance chasers. You have to find that proper balance between promising to handle their case personally and explaining how competent your staff are so clients don’t get too pissy when they realize they’ll only be talking directly to you three times in two years.
The single malt was my idea.
I actually think there is more diversity of opinion among the lawyers about these issues than might appear at first glance, and they seem to all agree only that 1) the distinction between legal information and legal advice is not all that clear as a lay person might assume and that as a consequence caution is warranted when giving out legal information/advice, and 2) people are better off hiring lawyers rather than representing themselves.
That said, even to the extent that they all agree, I don’t see any sort of implication anywhere that there is some sort of conspiracy. It would be natural for people in a similar circumstance to share a common perspective, without the aid of malt-fueled conspiracies.
This is why we let you lead the meetings.
Interspersed with “harumphs!” at the appropriate times, of course.
Holy crap! That’s where I was last Thursday. I woke up in an alley with cats licking me and a tattoo of the Equal Dignities Rule.
I am sooooooooooooooooo not asking you where that tatt is!! :eek:
You forgot about it’s being about four consecutive years of Martindale-Hubble directories when it’s lawyers who don’t have any books with the actual law in them in their offices.
Let’s just say I won’t be doing any . . . unilaterals for a while. 
“Upset” is not really the appropriate word. “Delusional” would be closer.
my personal favourite is sitting in the corner with my fingertips together and not saying a word until everyone else has spoken - people find it intimidating.
The big reason people find us intimidating is that the organization’s secret mission is to kill every living person on the planet, then wait 21 years, and declare all property deeds void.
[sub]At least, I think that’s how it works. The Rule against Perpetuities is an invitation to murder, right?[/sub]
[sub]Beware the fertile octogenarian and the precocious toddler. Enough said, right.[/sub]
Only if you shoot someone who is already falling off a building. From the effects of poison.
Jeez, what is the big deal? You lawyers really stick together.
Stoid, what you need to do is
I’ve only talked once with “my” attorney in two years; maybe he will speak to me two times more in the current year. He told me we had an excellent case; I hope I live to see the conclusion of it.
Lawyers got him, halfway through his post? :eek:
If you’re not satisfied with how things are going, fire him and get another.
Better yet, call him up and find out why it is you can’t see him more often than that, and why your case isn’t moving faster.
WAG: He’s got a case load in the upper hundreds, if not low thousands, and doesn’t have time to spend on any one case unless and until it manages to pop up on his diary because some piece of paper has to be filed, or some court manages to schedule it for something. Lots of the injury operations run that way.
You know, that IS a really good gesture in a meeting! I shall add it to my repertoire!
Thanks!