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Anyone Available To Cover?

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Matt Brown over at Chandler Criminal Defense laments the crappy, lazy, too busy to represent their clients, lawyers who have their own definition of "coverage."He recalls his early days of practice:When I first started out, other attorneys would regularly take advantage of my willingness to help out. I was eager to meet lawyers and get into court. Other lawyers were eager to avoid work. Lawyers who had the same tribal indigent defense contract I did would ask me to cover hearings and tell me the hearings were just simple continuances. The clients were pissed no one visited them, judges were mad the defense had blown deadlines, and prosecutors were frustrated that the defense hadn?t returned their calls. One lawyer asked me to cover what she said was ?a dismissal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on December 12, 2010 (boomark / email).