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Adjusting. Part One

By Blonde Justice

When I was a public defender, I was always a little torn about clients who wanted to hire a private lawyer.A client would ask me, "Should I get a private lawyer?" or, worse, of course, "Should I get a 'real lawyer'?" Sometimes I felt like, "Yeah, if you can afford one, you should. Leave the public defenders for those who really need them." You know, like people who have money but scam to get on food stamps. Other times, I had clients that were really struggling to make ends meet, but I could tell they were wondering if giving up anything and everything they ever had might be their only way out of their impossible case. I would say to them, "Look, do what you have to do. But so long as you're my client, I'm going to work as hard as I can on your case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Blonde Justice on September 26, 2007 (boomark / email).