You don’t bat an eye when the caller tells you, in all seriousness, that he wants to sue Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, Queen Elizabeth, Kim Jong-Il, and God; because they’re conspiring to prevent the alien takeover of Earth, which would usher in a few thousand years of peace and prosperity under the guidance of our alien overlords.
And you continue not to bat an eye when, in an effort to get the caller off the line, you tell the caller that regretfully, all of the above are your clients already, so taking his case would put you in a conflict of interest situation; and that’s why you cannot take his case.
(I’m thinking that our firm’s phone number is written on the wall by the payphone in the psych ward of the local hospital–we get some pretty strange calls from there.)
Another vote for being told you’re wrong because your client received an e-mail from his buddy at the bar about something kind of like this that he saw on a court show on TV once… :rolleyes: