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Friday, May 26, 2006
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And a fake...

It seems like a continuing saga in the little practice of mine for this week.

From a wily veteran, then a cocky newbie to a fake. What a week to run through the whole gamut of practitioners in the Philippines.

Anyway, I was in a mediation conference yesterday, representing a widow whose husband the other party ran over and killed with a mini-van.

He was now represented by someone from the insurance company. From his demeanor, I had a hunch we was not a lawyer. Because seems even more cocky and was ramming a paltry settlement offer down my client's throat. And even attempted to lecture me on the law.

I therefore had to ask him if he was a lawyer. He said he was a lawyer "to be."

That was when I blew my top. I told him, "That's the reason why you're still a lawyer to be. And that's the reason why you will not pass."

The nerve of that person.

1 Objection(s):

At 2:32 PM, Anonymous said...: This seems staright out of Wow Mali or Candid Camera show. Some guys really have the gall.

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