I’m working at a law firm now, and it’s my first vacation attachment in a law firm… and I’m feeling skeevy already.
To make a long story short, we should have lost the case on the facts. But the other party has shit-for-brains for a lawyer, and so we might actually win. The thing is, shit-for-brains probably got hired because the other party is going bankrupt, and we’re one of the reasons why.
Sigh.
Did you do your job correctly and competently and within the bounds of the law and the canon of ethics?
If so, then there’s no need to feel skeevy or in any other way negative. You’re not responsible for the actions of your clients which may or may not have caused the bankruptcy, you’re not responsible for your opponent’s choice of lawyer (I’m assuming you were the defendant; if so there’s no reason why funds should have been an issue for your opponent since they should have been able to find someone to take the case on a contingency basis), and you’re not responsible for the competence of opposing counsel.
**Tabby_Cat ** --if things get too nasty, every Public Defender’s Office in America needs a good hand or two.
Much sympathy, & sorry for your pain.
It’s a wonder that you got through the screening process with reactions like this. I mean, you would think that the pulse monitor would have picked up something.
Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor has a good idea though.
Never too late to switch professions to something honorable. 
d&r
Probably every lawyer has a case that they secretly hope they lose, but Otto is right–your law firm’s job is to provide effective representation to the client within the bounds of the law. Sometimes that may not gibe with your personal sense of what should have happened. Say you do take a job as a public defender; eventually you may have to vigorously argue for the acquittal of a person that you find morally repulsive because law enforcement violated his constitutional rights or the prosecution didn’t do it’s job. The fact that a person who walked free should have been convicted if others had done their jobs correctly is not your fault. You did your job, and kept the system true to the law and the constitution, your personal feelings notwithstanding.
Besides, you got off easy. My first legal job was carrying the big sacks of money with $$$ on them across the dying baby seals to the big Scrooge McDuck vault.
I remember that case!
I’ve been fortunate enough in my limited practice to have never won a case that I’d hoped to lose, but it’s pretty damn ban when you lose one when your client should have won.
–Cliffy