Clean Up Your Own Mess!
I have heard through the criminal courthouse grapevine lately how some attorneys are having a difficult time securing clients to represent. Often, when times are lean lawyers go to great lengths to secure clients. Perhaps that is why of I have been contacted by many prospective clients lately who are dis-satisfied with their current attorney because the attorney made an outrageous promise to them without even making a court appearance. It is frustrating for me when a client or the client's family come to our office after hiring this type of lawyer. The client loses all faith in their attorney when they can not deliver as promised. Furthermore, the client loses all faith in the criminal justice system. These types of attorneys go on to blame everyone; including the judge, the prosecutor, or even the complaining witness when in actuality they knew that their "guarantee" was merely a ploy to get hired by the client. A criminal attorney that promises an outcome before looking at the facts is not a legitimate defense attorney in my book. They are imposter's that are pooping in the criminal justice center without cleaning up after themselves. These so-called criminal defense attorney's need to think twice about withdrawing from a case when their client gets upset with them after they do not deliver on the original promise because I am getting tired of cleaning up after them.
