When was the last time you heard anyone in the throws of a DIVORCE say “I love my DIVORCE attorney”? Now there are some DIVORCE lawyers who I think really try and do well by their clients and achieving this goal is not easy. Adam Lipsic, Benjamin Valencia, Roxanna Taghavi, Judy Bogen and Michael Trope to mention a just a few of top notch DIVORCE LAWYERS here in the Southern California area. These people (that now hate each other) that we work with swore to honor and protect “till death do us part” and now one or the other is trying to desperately destroy one or the other!
Making it worse is that many, not all, just refuse to follow directions or to take solid advice. Not easy, because many clients just do not do as they re told and just make matters worse. They are experts at making bad decisions! This is what we call a real money maker, especially if the clients have money to piss down the drain. A potential client that is not clear minded or suffering from addiction is even worse. In the work I/we do, we must be human in the interaction with many of our clients. Often these folks are at their worst during this process of a DIVORCE, and very vulnerable to some DIVORCE lawyers whose only focus is money! (now we all know a few of these) Like a hungry wolf who just wants to kill to satisfy its hunger, in these cases it is a desire for money!
However, recently we have been involved in an assignment where a client is having a little problem with sobriety and feeling poorly for a number of reasons. (having a husband who has so much money you would think everyone is happy, NOPE just the lawyers ) And they do in fact have money to piss away as they see fit and for no other reason. I am guessing due to self esteem issues and did I mentioned sobriety? Many of these folks are very talented and great people when they are running on all 8 cylinders, when there is a misfire, watch out! This is why ‘sobriety’ is not easy for those who fight to maintain it. Often we are called to help in anyway that we can and have to be careful in giving advice and the costs involved in those decisions. I have personally saved the lives of four clients that were in tough shape and literally were circling the drain.
Hell, I live in Montana and Wyoming part of the year and I thought I have seen some fantastic ‘roping’ and at times the slaughtering of cattle. Nothing compares to what an Old Hack with a law degree (DIVORCE) can do when given the opportunity, Hee Haw! That is of course until those being roped are presented with a clear path and a very highly trained DIVORCE lawyer enters the picture, and then it happens, POOF! The HACK, with the huge payroll and even bigger overhead is shown the door. It is actually very, very entertaining as I am sure, ‘HACK’ was looking forward to some more easy money….. just look at this redacted fee statement. I am proud to say that I got this Old Hack TERMINATED, and I could swear I could hear the Old Hack howling at the moon, HaHaHa and I slept well at the sound of that lovely sound! (paybacks are lots of fun).
How the hell does a lawyer, bill for hours and hours of time knowing that the client is not able to make solid decisions? To the point that one of the clients very trusted confidants/employee and friend tells the lawyers that he thinks they need to wait before allowing the client to make any major decisions. Common sense right? Hell not when you are running a major firm and need every possible dollar you can suck out of the digestive cavity of whatever you are roping! Not enough to bill for your time The Hack gets everyone of the useless humanoid billing machines involved too…. money, read on………
Well for this one desperate billing monster it is “all hands on deck” and ‘BILL, BABY, BILL!’, this ‘HACK’ is famous…. ‘We gots us a Cash Cow and we gots to gets what’s ours and quick!!!!!!!!’ It is a never ending ‘payout’ for a ‘HACK’ who has the game down. Every phone calls will have Principal, the Jr. Partner and an Associate all billing by the hour and all on the same phone call…. HUMANOID BILLING MACHINES aka LAWYERS.
Just look at this bill we got our hands on and just read and heard the desperation of getting that money! We are told this client has paid $500,000.00 already, that is not verified at this time….. but wait! “We are willing to accept a payment of $60,000.00 to be made today”. How gracious is this Old Wrinkled Hack!? Not even a “third rate lawyer” in Studio City could come up with this verbiage! John Dillinger was more gentle in robbing people and he dressed real nice too! Everyone loves a good “John”.
The reason that she (client) might not cooperating is that she is having serious issues with sobriety and is IN REHAB! “Please do not hesitate to contact us.” Really? This client should get a MALPRACTICE lawyer and he or she should be communicating with these professionals to see if being taken for a hell of a ride while not medically well is legal for a lawyer to “hook” you in. “Bull Riders!” How would you like that contact?
Oh wait, this client is fighting for their sobriety got served with a restraining order while in the very ‘INCOMPETENT’ hands of this Old Hustler and her multiple HUMANOID billing machines! I swear I could not invent this stuff….. It is those firms and Old Miserable Hacks that grind this garbage out day in and day out that give the DIVORCE profession a bad name!
You know what dear, knowing you have to show up to that hog farm you call an office is enjoyment enough for me and all your detractors……. You should say your prayers that this client or someone close to her does not realize these attempts to collect thousands and thousands of dollars from her, an individual that was not of clear mind during most of this….. You might be very tricky, Addiction is even more tricky, sleep well if you can even close those beady little eyes!