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Breaking Down the Types of Crummy Criminal Defense Attorneys

By Bruce Carton

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Over at Ken Lammers' CrimLaw blog, he notes the recent flurry of discussion about incompetent attorneys who have a knack for somehow keeping their clients quite happy even while they are walking them "right off the plank and into the ocean." Lammers says this type of lawyer is well known in criminal defense circles, and he takes a shot at breaking down the different types of lawyers who fit this description, including: Sturm und Drang: Lammers says this guy (women, too?) has figured out that the best strategy for attracting clients is to be loud and confrontational at all times, with no give on any issue. This lawyer is not concerned that "the thoroughly peeved prosecutor will ask the thoroughly peeved judge to throw the book at his client" as a result, since 50 percent of the people in the gallery are wowed by his fighting and it brings him business and big fees. The Only: This guy is one of only two lawyers who have done criminal law in the County for the past 20 years, and has represented "entire clans - grandfather, fathers, sons, grandsons & granddaughters - as each generation makes it's way into court and on...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).