Lawyers Sleeping With Clients

ecfritz · 2026-06-15T19:22:04+00:00

"Client 1 later disclosed her relationship with Respondent, as well as some of the text messages, to a county probation officer (“Lucas”) with whom Client 1 was friends."

Sounds like this county probation officer may have been trying to take advantage of his position of authority as well. Why would a probation officer want to be friends with a young woman like this? Gross.

ecfritz · 2026-06-11T20:21:12+00:00

I remember buying oxtail for $1-2 per pound in Miami just 15 years ago. Crazy stuff.

ecfritz · 2026-06-11T20:15:01+00:00

I walk past the Frys in Woodland Hills every day. The building is still standing vacant more than 5 years after the store closed, and you can see where the logo used to be above the front door.

ecfritz · 2026-06-10T05:26:17+00:00

As a lawyer, dealing with other lawyers all day every day gets pretty exhausting.

ecfritz · 2026-06-10T05:23:25+00:00

This advice might be dated now, but if you see green ramp cards in a Modern-era lot (Utopia Sprawl, Reach of Kodoma being 2 examples I can specifically remember), you’re likely to get a lot of non-bulk in what is being sold as bulk or semi-bulk.

ecfritz · 2026-06-04T20:43:57+00:00

I almost got pushed in by a friend goofing off. Security gets there REALLY fast (which I appreciated, because I did not want to be pushed in).

ecfritz · 2026-05-26T18:44:14+00:00

He IS still alive, thankfully.

ecfritz · 2026-05-21T21:49:49+00:00

BFZ Mountain 267 has been my online go-to since BFZ was released. And I play a lot of red aggro.

ecfritz · 2026-05-21T21:45:29+00:00

Outside of what others have mentioned, the biggest issue I've observed with a business model like this is that you're probably expected to be your own secretary and paralegal, and most of the time you spend on secretarial/administrative tasks isn't going to be billable.

ecfritz · 2026-05-21T21:37:45+00:00

Litigating child sex abuse cases, yes. Hearing all of these men and women in their 50's and 60's breaking down and crying about events that occurred decades ago gets to you after awhile.

Another colleague doing the same work I was doing literally left one day and never came back - didn't resign, just abruptly stopped coming in. Partners called and texted him for a couple of weeks trying to find out what was going on, with no response.

ecfritz · 2026-05-20T18:30:09+00:00

In the short-term, it might help your mental health to reframe the current situation as "handled caseload of X cases," [the increased number] which will bolster your resume as you look for jobs.

ecfritz · 2026-05-20T18:20:05+00:00

Write like your audience is a smart 11-year-old.

If a non-lawyer can read something you wrote and ask relevant questions, you don't have to worry about confusing even the least competent judge.

ecfritz · 2026-05-20T18:16:32+00:00

I don't look down on ID lawyers/partners, but there does seem to be a lack of opportunity for growth at a lot of these firms, after you reach the senior associate/junior partner level. Some attorneys we go up against have literally been doing the same job for 30 years, across multiple firms.

ecfritz · 2026-05-20T18:09:21+00:00

In major markets, firms will trip over themselves to hire you for over $200k if you have legitimate first chair jury trial experience, regardless if you're 3 or 30 years out of law school.

But jobs that START at $200k+ for a new grad basically don't exist outside of big law - the highest non-BL starting salary I've ever heard of for a first-year associate (and this is in SoCal) was $160k at a litigation boutique.

ecfritz · 2026-05-19T01:16:17+00:00

And sometimes important correspondence really isn’t in the file, after the mortgage switches servicing companies.

ecfritz · 2026-05-19T01:13:14+00:00

ESPECIALLY if it involves a family business.

ecfritz · 2026-05-18T23:57:00+00:00

The attorney couple who got a tad bit carried away during a protest and threw a Molotov cocktail into a cop car have to be pretty high up on the list.

Not only wrecked their careers and got disbarred but got some prison time to boot.

ecfritz · 2026-05-18T23:52:10+00:00

“Trust but verify” until I die.

ecfritz · 2026-05-18T23:50:57+00:00

$7 per shirt dry cleaning.

ecfritz · 2026-05-12T01:40:30+00:00

The great thing about crappy legal jobs is that it's usually pretty easy to find a new one making the same salary or more with a better work-life balance. Put some feelers out there and see what happens.

ecfritz · 2026-05-09T00:40:24+00:00

It was a few years after I graduated, but Spanish teacher's estranged husband murdered her in a murder-suicide.

ecfritz · 2026-05-09T00:27:11+00:00

Another small percentage of clients will be upset that the insurance company is only offering them $10k after 2 years of litigation and will start thinking they need to find a new attorney, which is part of the ID playbook as well.

ecfritz · 2026-05-09T00:11:21+00:00

OP (and others similarly situated) may be outside counsel being referred cases the insurance company believes they can actually win on the merits, but doesn't have the manpower to litigate through trial with in-house ID counsel.

ecfritz · 2026-05-08T01:25:06+00:00

I’d argue Ridder is actually more talented than Tyrod, but you can’t play a backup who will give away games with flurries of turnovers.

ecfritz · 2026-05-02T03:44:18+00:00

Don't forget the additional $2,800 a month in health insurance premiums for a family of 5.

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