re: #135 Kosh’s Shadow

In criminal defense, you always prepare for trial, because the client or the state can change their minds. And the state is more likely to take a deal if you’re prepared.

Nonsense. Any attorney who charges me for something that hasn’t happened and isn’t even likely to happen is going to find himself being served for malpractice by my new attorney.

If attorneys did all the work required to take a potential (not actual) case to trial each time, we certainly wouldn’t see trials delayed for weeks and months and in some cases years while attorneys…prepared for trial.

Do you know where this figure came from?