re: #160 SixDegrees

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?

I’m talking about criminal cases, not civil cases. These can’t drag on forever like civil cases.

If you were charged criminally, and had the court date set, even if you’ve made a plea deal, the state doesn’t have to offer it to you, and the judge doesn’t have to accept it. They can say “We go to trial, now.”
Would you want your attorney ready? Remember, the plea deal doesn’t get confirmed until the trial date, and you cannot change the date just because your attorney isn’t prepared.
So you pay for the trial preparation, or meet your new wife, Bubba, with your honeymoon in the steel bar suite.