Austin criminal-defense lawyer Jamie Spencer talked to a parent whose son's DWI lawyer promised, at the first meeting, a 99% chance of getting the case dismissed. I guess that's a problem we should expect to come up over and over again.

Law and Baseball, by criminal-defense lawyer Johnny Gardner, from Bobby Frederick's stomping grounds of Horry County, South Carolina.

Tyler Flood (one of the smartest lawyers Tyler Flood has ever met!) says of his recent debacle in the Houston Press:During the course of this process I praised so many of my colleagues and even told Mike who to talk to, including Jed [Silverman], Gary [Trichter], Troy [McKinney], [Mark] Thiessen, Murph [Doug Murphy], Jim Medley and others. It was Mike’s choice who he decided to include. I

I've been asked to write about how to choose a criminal-defense lawyer. Disclaimer: What I write here, I write not with the intention of making myself more presentable to clients, but only of telling the truth, revealing a bit of myself, and maybe entertaining or educating. Some of my posts have probably scared off potential clients—not everybody wants to hire the monkey waving around a cocked .45

No, not really. I don't care whether they get disbarred or let off. A lawyer can't pay a nonlawyer for a referral. This is an uncontroversial proposition. In Connecticut, paying a nonlawyer for a referral can even be a felony. So when five Connecticut lawyers signed on to pay totalbankruptcy.com $65 per referral, they shouldn't have been terribly surprised to find themselves the subjects of a Memorandum

Houston DWI lawyer Tyler Flood on DWI cases, from the Houston Press article (yes, it’s like crack):”Listen, most of the people we get off are intoxicated. But that’s the justice system,” he says. “I’ve always thought people would be very concerned if they knew what we were doing.”Tyler: You know that you’re talking to a reporter, right?

From the Houston Press article on Houston DWI lawyer Tyler Flood:On all of his sites, Flood's biography starts with his No. 4 class rank in law school. It doesn't mention that he graduated during the summer with 17 other people. (In fact, the site for Flood Publishing, which sells law school flash cards, claims he graduated in May.) Flood also has a reputation for bad-mouthing other lawyers

From a Houston Press article about Houston DWI lawyer Tyler Flood:Flood pays someone to keep up his Google search rankings. . . . He has reviewed himself on Yahoo (five out of five stars): "Tyler Flood is one of the smartest lawyers I have ever met...reasonably priced also!"(Here's the profile giving Tyler that review.)

As I understand it, the Harris County Commissioners Court has started approving all DA Office hires by name. So if Pat Lykos wants to hire Joan Schmo to be a Misdemeanor 4, she has to get Joan's hiring on the Commissioners Court agenda and get the court to vote on it at a monthly meeting.Which is unfortunate for the 10-15 "precommits"—larval lawyers who have committed to working

I charge bigger fees . . . so I can take fewer cases . . . so I can give each case more attention . . . so I can get better results . . . so I can charge bigger fees . . . so I can take fewer cases . . . I charge smaller fees . . . so I have to take more