Lawyers of Reddit, what was the least defendable case ever brought to you? Probably my client

charged with statutory assault, multiple accounts, who impregnated his high school sweetheart's daughter

after sleeping with said daughter from the ages of 13 to 15. He was 35 at the time of the birth.

DNA in the form of a baby is strong evidence for the state. I had a client who

won just shy of a seven-figure settlement in a personal injury case. She then dropped into my office

to ask me to file a fee dispute against the attorney who represented her in the personal injury

action. That attorney took a little over $260,000 on this case.

If you're doing the math at home, this guy took a 27% fee on the type of case where 40%

fees are common.

Did a fantastic job because the woman got nearly a million dollars, and then she turned

around and tried to sue him to recover any of his fees.

I rejected the case out of hand and then got

an ethics complaint for discriminating against her. It kind of sounds like this lady just needs

to take the win. She's being really greedy here. A woman wanted me to sue her previous lawyer

for charging her a lot of money but producing almost no work to justify his fees.

She gave me what she told me was the lawyer's total work product, a page printed off the

internet for which she said she was charged thousands of dollars for legal advice.

She had already brought a claim via my jurisdiction's disciplinary body for lawyers.

She had lost and wanted to bring an appeal.

The judgment kept referring to documents that I hadn't seen. I pushed her to give me everything, and she came in

with multiple files full of immaculate legal work that totally justified the fees she was fighting.

We told her to get lost, but she wasted a lot of my time before we realized she was full of it.

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