If you're looking for humor in the legal world, there's not a lot around. But one thing that humors me is how differently people appraoch the process of hiring an attorney. This runs the gamut from those who want to hire your law firm over the phone to those who ask twenty precautionary interview-type questions before discussing their actual situation.
I regularly speak with people who are so convinced they have a case and want to hire us. I take the time to explain why they don't have a case. At this point, one of two things happens:
A. The person understands and thanks me for my time, the call ends.
B. The person gets upset that we have "rejected" their case and the proceeds to attempt to sell me their case. My patience wears thin and my responses dwindle to single words.
The A option makes my day much easier than B.
A very good attorney who taught two classes I took gave this sage advice:
"You'll make more money on the cases that you turn down, rather than on the ones you take"
Well taken.
