I get really tired of my colleagues in the profession. One of the things I get tired of are the circular phone calls. The sort I mean are where one lawyer comes up with a stack of figures/bills/etc., that they've been busily calculating for three hours then calls me up, downloads the information to me, and then insists that right then and there, I stipulate to whatever it is he/she wants. Then, should I have the nerve to say that I really need to review my own file and make sure the numbers being shouted meet with mine, I get Petulant Whiny Lawyer in response who spends the next twenty minutes explaining how unbelievably unreasonable I am.
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
And stop wasting my client's time with your closing argument jackass! Fine, we disagree. That's what hearings are for.
This is where older lawyers are a pleasure to deal with. I called up a guy the other day. Said, "This is the number I came up with." He asked me to fax the worksheet. I did. Then he faxed his. We reviewed and then had a five minute phone conversation. Done. No fuss. No muss.
That's what the practice should be like. To my mind anyway.
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