Others bill for things like an attempted call even though the encounter took less than a minute. We learned of one lawyer who call everyone at lunchtime when it was least likely that someone would answer their phone. Because his form billed quarter hours, each 30 second phone call was rounded up and billed at 15 minutes. Sometimes law firms pad their bills by passing on the costs of firm overhead by transforming secretarial or support work into billable work.
An ethical firm should never charge clients for secretarial work, clerical work or word processing. A California federal judge recently rejected hourly bills from lawyers for doing things as "pick-up copies", "tag exhibits", "organize files", "reproduce documents" and "distribute memo. Double billing occurs when a lawyer bills two or more clients for the same work.
Typically, this happens with legal research projects. The same research may benefit multiple clients. A dishonest lawyer will bill each client for the full amount of the time. Instead of allowing a paralegal or assistant to perform a simple task such as looking up a case, larger law firms will use an associate attorney to do so.
Bill padding is stealing. And when it is done by a lawyer, it is unethical and could cause the lawyer to lose his or her license. Not only was he caught, he lost his license to practice law. In another case, a prominent lawyer was caught after his bills showed 5, billable hours per year and for multiple years.
To do that, one would have to bill over 16 hours a day every day of the year. Lest you think that is still somehow possible, lawyers have annual training requirements, must attend meetings, and engage in client development. For the average lawyer, it takes 57 hours of work to bill Lawyer Lawrence Reich found himself in hot water after his legal bills suggested he worked days in a single year!
His wife, a partner at another well known firm. The examples above all appear to be motivated by pure greed. Sometimes, however, there can be a tremendous pressure on associate attorneys to bill a certain number of hours. When I was a young associate working at a large law firm, there was an expectation for all associates to bill hours. Since often our billable hours were cut by the billing partner on each case, billing meant really billing in excess of hours and that meant working many long hours.
For some young associates, there is a pressure to treat these billable hourly targets more like a quota. Quit being a candy ass worrying day and night about popularity and or money. As long as the majority of us continue to bend over and quietly in a agreeing manner spread our cheeks these crooked bastards are gonna continue to bury it balls deep in our asses without so much as an I love you or a reacharound all the while taking everything you have or will have all in the name of justice and plainly put….
I look not for your acceptance nor approval. God bless Canada… until we learn to stand up for ourselves each other and what is TRULY right together then we are going to continue to only get worse and until then the us is a hopeless lost cause and we have no one to blame but ourselves!
Any prosecutor who charges a defendant with a crime that they know he did not commit simply in order to use it as leverage against them to get them to plead guilty to a lesser charge needs to be instantly disbarred. Tragic, yes, but not intentional. Are you out of your mind or just totally devoid of ethics? Common sense tells you that no human being can possibly be guilty of killing the same person with 1.
That is as asinine as charging the same person with stealing a car in New York City and stealing another car two minutes later in Los Angeles when there is no way he could possibly be guilty of both. No prosecutor with any ethics whatsoever would charge him with both crimes yet we see the equivalent of that happen every day which tells me that the problem of prosecutors having no ethics but still prosecuting cases as if they had any more business doing so than Charles Manson is a problem of epidemic proportions.
This is no small matter. One of the two biggest problems with the piece of shit dog and pony show unconvincingly masquerading as a judicial system in this country is that prosecutors have unlimited power to charge defendants with crimes that they KNOW the defendant did not commit so that either 1.
Any prosecutor that stacks charges against a defendant that they know the defendant did not commit should be instantly disbarred and not allowed within feet of a courtroom unless they themselves are a defendant. Which absolutely shits all over the concept of protection from double jeopardy. How many chances does the prosecution get to get it right?
The defendant is being held to an unreasonably high standard. Otherwise it does not remotely deserve to be independent if it cannot even give its citizens a fair trial.
The bars may be covered in velvet and our cell may have a flat screen t. Sir, the world so truly needs you and your way with words. You hit the nail on the head and put it through the board. My daughter is currently in a County Jail on charges of vop.
Prosecutor has offered her 42 months of prison time. My daughter is never been in trouble this is her first time on probation and first time to violate. Prosecutor told her attorney that if she did not take this deal she would up it to six years in prison. Is this wrong? Sounds very wrong to me.
I would like your input please. Prosecuters, judges, police, all lie and they could not care less about you, your friends, your reputation, all they are interested in is how much money they can pocket for themselves. The more false charges the better, this is called stacking the charges.
Bond, commodities and C. My son was convicted with another guy of stealing and selling radiators. All they had on my son was the other guys word and a photo on a camera showing he was at a junkyard where they were supposedly selling the radiators.
But the photo does not connect him with the radiators. The other guy got off. To start with it was to be divided between the two. But now its just on my son. We are in Missouri and I would like to know what you think of this. And why does he have to pay someone who convicted him. Pingback: Will payment for past wrongs end future wrongs?
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I swear; I think they could charge you with something for walking down the sidewalk whistling a tune while wearing a blue shirt. You stop by the side of a country road, release the rabbits out into the tall grass, get back in your car, and drive away. How many? Interfering with wild life. One count. Six months each count. Removing wildlife from its natural habitat. Six counts.
One year each count. Placing wildlife in a non-native habitat. Use of a motor vehicle for the purpose of interfering with wildlife. Illegal dumping. Three months each count.
Illegally parking on a county road. Go to trial and face 14 years in prison? Share this: Facebook Email Twitter. Like this: Like Loading Bookmark the permalink.
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Member since May Member since June While it did kind of come off as rude. I hink she meant that since she was addressing an online community and not a forum of law scholars she assumed that there could be alot of uneducated guesses offered answers. Like I said, that comment was a bit rude, but I tried not to read too much into it and give her the benefit of the doubt : Yes, I make spelling mistakes often as a result of using IMDB on mobile devices :.
Member since April 7, Member since April I was offended by the comment myself because that was rather rude and unnecessary but to answer the question What I gathered is that Linda was not only using the defendants current file but padding it or joining it with other people's files to make it look like one big file. It's basically a con but I can't see how a lawyer could be prosecuted, unless the judge asks specifically if that whole file belongs to that defendant and they lie about it. Otherwise it seems like it's more of a matter of ethics on the lawyers part but the judge is the one who's at fault for making the assumption in the first place, instead of making sure.
All typos and misspellings courtesy of a public educational system. Back in the 80s and 90s, it was normal for cops to pin unresolved crimes on blacks. For example, in NYC Black males who were brought in for petty crimes like petty larceny or brandishing a firearm or something, would clear their files by also tacking on similar crimes that were unresolved. No evidence required, because they scared the guys to plea or they could face life in prison if they tried to fight the extra charges.
Five Teens and a pre-teen back in the early 90s were charged and convicted of beating and raping a white female. They were arrested because they were in the area at the time, but there was no evidence, no forensics no nothing, but her testimony.
Based on that they were put away and spent their entire youth from teens to their late 20s in prison, before the real perp admitted to the crime.
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