Sometimes clients annoy me. Then I realize I really don’t care what you do as long as you pay me and that is the legal profession for you

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Easy to say when you're not the one answering the phone for Plaintiffs calling every two seconds for a cASe uPDAtE until it's time for discovery and all the sudden they are nowhere to be found.


I'm fine.

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I don’t do much Plaintiff side work but the little I’ve done makes this a BIG MOOD

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