Mark Bennett | January 12, 2009
National Law Journal (H/T Omar Ha-Redeye)notes the decline of business for contract attorneys:
As law firms downsize, laid-off attorneys and new law school graduates unable to find jobs have been turning to an option they may never have imagined at law school: becoming contract attorneys — hired guns [or, more aptly, cannon fodder] for $35 an [...]
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Mark Bennett | October 25, 2007
Here is what I now put in my contracts on federal cases. (I cribbed it from another lawyer who has had the no-snitches policy for a long time.):
I do not represent people who “snitch,” “rat,” or cooperate, which means giving information against others to the government in order to avoid criminal charges, receive leniency, or [...]
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