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No More Get Out of Jail Free Cards

By Brian Tannebaum

As a criminal defense lawyer who doesn't advertise in the yellow pages, I receive few early morning "someone's in jail can you bond them out" calls.I don't want them anymore.I don't mind the call from a great friend, or current client seeking some help, but the people who "got your name from.....," please don't call me.Why? Because you waste my time.[1] You get some sense that I am responsible for actually getting them out. I am not. I am merely giving you the name of a respectable bondsman for you to call. This does not give you the right to call me 6 times on a Saturday and ask me why he's not out. I don't know. [2] You don't listen to me, you go down to the jail when I tell you not to, and you start talking to people who tell you different things...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on July 23, 2007 (boomark / email).