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Trust & Integrity: Impacting Others

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Criminal defense is a collaborative community and I learned this really deeply recently. You never know who is listening and learning from you. Who do you present yourself as in court, at the jail, even at the cocktail party? Everywhere you go, your integrity is right there out in the open. Are you providing a good example to the community?

How I Deal with Difficult Clients

 

You know those clients that just get right up under your skin?

 

The ones that make it so tempted to get complacent, to mail it in? The ones that won’t care about the time you took to investigate and tell their story, or the ones that just straight up lied during your meetings?

 

Yeah. Those clients suck.

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But behind that annoying behavior, the lies, the mistrust, there’s always a context. A reason why they got into the position they are in. And as much as it takes everything I’ve got, it’s on me as the attorney to always give that context its fair weight when I’m dealing with a client. If I’m going to call myself a criminal defense attorney, I have to be able to zealously represent the most broken, most heinous, and see the person beneath the circumstance.

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I have to remember what it means, what a privilege it is to stand next to someone and tell their story. Maybe they’ll never appreciate what I do for them, but it means something to me that I get to do it.

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