Comments on: Sellers “sabotaging themselves” with “evil lawyers” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/sellers-sabotaging-themselves-with-evil-lawyers/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/sellers-sabotaging-themselves-with-evil-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-5087 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:24:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4308#comment-5087 My lawyer handled my divorce because he knew that I would be reasonable. His firm dropped its divorce practice because they could not make money – it was too adversarial.

Lawyers work best when they work toward reasonable solutions – plea bargains for example.

Unfortunately our law schools pound on doing all you can for your case. This focus on tenacity for its own sake has lead to terrible excesses.

Suppose somebody is about to shoot sombody in an act of rage. Tradition says that the attorney should try to calm the situation. Our law schools say the lawyer should ready papers for a wrongful death suit.

]]> By: Dick https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/sellers-sabotaging-themselves-with-evil-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-5086 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:24:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4308#comment-5086 I can sum the problem up in two words … Billable hours.

]]> By: nevins https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/sellers-sabotaging-themselves-with-evil-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-5085 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:50 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4308#comment-5085 You don’t have to be involved in too many deals to realize that the lawyers always muck things up. They’re on the clock to produce ‘work’. It does not matter if their work product furthers the interest of their client or not. They merely need to appear to address the client’s interests by creating ‘problems’ that then only they can solve by working more hours with the opposing attorney. If they make the whole situation appear hostile then like pro-wrestling we get sucked into the drama begin to cheer for our side and feel grateful that we have our Armani suited Hulk Hogan.

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