# How is it possible to be a client of an attorney and not pay an attorney?

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 17, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-possible-to-be-a-client-of-an-attorney-and-not-pay-an-attorney/812585 "2018-04-17T16:07:37Z")
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### Author: ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-possible-to-be-a-client-of-an-attorney-and-not-pay-an-attorney/812585/12 "2018-04-18T12:25:13Z")

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> [@DavidwithanR](#):
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> I wonder how many are working “pro malo”. 🙂

I know of one who did.

> [@why would a LEO carry a gun on vacation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-a-leo-carry-a-gun-on-vacation/596311/12):
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> Imagine that you are sitting in bail court, just watching the show. A madam is trying to bail out one of her girls. She complains that her girls had a service-for-service deal with a certain defence counsel, such that in exchange for their services, he would represent them as necessary. The Justice of the Peace found the assertion rather doubtful, so the madam pulled a toupee out of her purse and said that the defence counsel had mistakenly forgotten it when visiting the girls that previous weekend. It was at that moment that the defence counsel in question walked into the courtroom, bald as a bee.

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