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Set Client Expectations from the Beginning

Posted onJune 4, 2018June 4, 2018Leave a comment

I recently received a communication from a potential client asking me if I would get “nasty” with the lawyer representing the opposition. Here is my reply, which has been lightly edited to protect the client’s confidentiality:   Dear Sam: I Read More …

CategoriesLegal Culture, ProfessionalismTagsClients, Expectations, Nasty, Professionalism

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On being observed by wife of a prominent client: ” [She] also stood and looked at me as though I was a regrettable necessity in their important lives, like drains.”
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