Lawyers of Reddit. At what point, when working for a defendant, did you realize my client is a monster?

A lot of years ago, I used to work as a solicitor's representative. Cases go to Crown Court,

Barrister deals, and I am there for the paperwork. Additional stuff with client, etc.

70-something-year-old man had been in jail for 15 years for an assault on a child.

Solicitor and barrister working on getting him released due to him getting clean reports from just about everyone.

Guards took him out of jail to a dentist, and as he entered the waiting room, he saw two children and ran straight at them.

Guards stopped him.

Three weeks later at court, I was the one that sat him down in a room to explain that,

no, this isn't a hearing to release you.

It is so you could be committed to a mental health secure facility for the rest of your life.

He didn't take that well.

I shed no tears.

I am not a lawyer, but a legal assistant.

We got a client off of a murder charge.

Two weeks later, she was caught with a similar weapon and situation,

except this time, the guy didn't die.

Not the client, but my managing partner.

The client was a senile 90-year-old man.

He wanted to sell land worth a little less than a billion dollars to some businessman.

Suffice to say, there were many who wanted to take advantage of the situation.

One such person, to my dismay, was our managing partner.

The partner wanted to insert a provision that would have effectively funneled about 60%

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