Potential new client: “I have 10,000 pages of documents to back up my claim. My last two lawyers didn’t get it and they suck, can you help? There’s a reply to some motion due next week … summary… something … You do contingency cases right?
Lawyers: pic.twitter.com/olWAXXWoqB— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) June 3, 2022
I have never had to worry about drumming up legal business. Avoiding bad legal business on the other hand never ends. My first experience of it was when a prospective client sat down in my office a few months after I was admitted to the bar in 1982 and advised me that he wished to sue several Latin American countries. The fellow seemed calm and sane but his rationale for the litigation made absolutely no sense. I told him that for such an important piece of litigation I would need a retainer of a hundred million dollars. After I advised him that I would not take the case on a contingent fee basis he departed for parts unknown.
