When the Truth Emerges: 36 Lawyers Shocked as Their Clients Unveil Jaw-Dropping Confessions
Eventually it was discovered that the lamp used to illuminate the site of the procedure emitted a ton of heat, enough to cause serious burns.
Here’s another. I wasn’t actually an attorney yet, I was clerking for a firm and helping other attorneys on cases. We had a personal injury case for a car accident. Guy got rear ended by a very wealthy doctor. He was never going to be able to work again, mid 30s. Life completely ruined because she was staring at her phone while merging onto a highway going 15 MPH over the speed limit.
The case was set for trial. That’s an automatic red flag, as 99% of them settle. No one wants to risk the trial. Couldn’t figure out why. We thought we would get him around 2.2 million. Other side was offering 700k.
So I’m going through the massive file trying to figure out what they have that we don’t know about. Looking at his medical, I saw he tested positive for m**h a few months after the accident. I was part of the jury selection that morning, and we had 2 people with doctorates, several with masters and professional licenses, most college educated. Really not good for a guy who didn’t make it through highschool and was a laborer who decided to sit at home and smoke m**h after his accident.
Ended up settling right before the trial was supposed to start. We got a little more out of them, but far below what we expected. The guy was adamant about not settling, but we talked him into it. He would’ve been screwed as soon as they brought that up.
So, not a lawyer yet, but I interned at a family court helping during hearings.
There was this woman filling for custody of her children, and her lawyer was pretty confident they’d win, since in my country women getting the custody is almost an unspoken rule. In the rare cases they don’t, either they don’t want it or there’s a very strong reason for the children not to be with their mother.
So, as I was saying, her lawyer seemed very confident. It was pratically a won case. Until her client’s ex husband mentioned in the middle of the hearing that his ex wife was an a****t and lived in a non monogamous relationship with two other a*****s… To make matters worse, the woman’s parents confirmed his story.
The lawyer very obviously did not know about it and was visibly [angry] at her client. I swear I saw her mouth to the woman “You’ll have to find a new lawyer.”.
Divorce client came into my lobby one morning, panicked. She starts screaming about how the money was missing.
What money? I asked her. Apparently her and her soon to be ex didn’t believe in banks, as they kept a suitcase with close to $100k in a safe in their bedroom closet. One morning she saw the safe was open and the money was all gone.
Y’all have no idea how hard it is to trace and prove the existence of that much money in loose 100s, 50s, and 20s is. Cost her several grand in fees alone for how much work went into finding it. When if she had just told us about it we could have placed it into a trust account pending the divorce.
Doing a complicated environmental permit case for a client. Permit was granted at the city level but the neighbours, who were not too thrilled about a business the size of our clients being next door with loud trucks moving around all day, appealed it.
They have a ton of remarks, but we can deflect most of the legal ones and the only issues that really remain are that the plans are a tad bit vague and the noise issues, for which a study was ordered but not yet completed to give a 100% guarantee there would not be sound regulation issues.
To clear up the last questions, the state body did a (planned) on site visit to get clarification on the few things that were not clear on the plans and the things that were filed.
My firm was not notified of this visit and as such, we were not present during this visit, client handled it himself with his architect.
They called us the next day to inform us of the following: during the visit, state body personnel had noticed that the sewage and plumbing system didnt really appear the way it was always drawn and shown (and also granted as part of the initial permit), so they asked client to clarify where their dirty water went. Client / architect supposedly responded with ‘oh, that just gets collected and drained down to the little stream at the back of the lot’.
Client wanted to know if that was bad. Spoiler alert: yes, yes it was.
There was no fixing it either. This was a company with potential environmental issues due to fluid leakage from machines and car park, so they had a ton of rules to follow on how to deal with your dirty and used water (separators, containment, early collection, and so on). They’d drawn most of these in their plans and were assumed to have all of this installed and working for the 20 something years that they had already been running their business on that site. According to their past permits, that needed to have those things.















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