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Civil Lawyers, Come Here, Closer, Listen Up

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Every so often criminal lawyers have the "joy" of interacting with a civil lawyer in the course of a criminal case.Now look, I don't like to generalize. There are good and bad lawyers in every field, on every side. In general though, civil lawyers have a method of practice that is very different from criminal practice.So civil lawyers, come here, closer, listen up:[1] I went to law school too. There was nothing I read in school or in the last 15 years that mandates "confirmatory letters." I know you get .3 in billable time for writing and sending them, but I won't read them. I won't write them either. When you tell me something, I may scribble it somewhere, but that's for me. See, in criminal law if a prosecutor or defense lawyer doesn't keep their word, it gets around the courthouse in about 23 minutes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).