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Do you order from my client's restaurant menu, too?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  - "I don't care what the contract says, it's my money that paid for your work and I am going to know from you what's going on in the case."- "He's my family. Blood is thicker than water, and I'm going to be involved in your discussions with my brother."- "My son has the mentality of a grade schooler. I know what is best for him."  What criminal defense lawyer can avoid clients' overbearing family members? Sure, I can refuse the potential client's case at the outset -- and have -- if someone else is paying for my services and if that someone else seems like s/he will blatantly disregard my standard contractual provision that says the non-client paying party has no rights under the retainer agreement and case any more than if s/he had paid anonymously...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).