When the Truth Emerges: 36 Lawyers Shocked as Their Clients Unveil Jaw-Dropping Confessions
A week before the hearing I call up my witness to do standard witness prep. I walk through all of the basic questions, the reports themselves, and some of the anticipated cross-examination questions. Everything goes well. Witness is confident, reports look good, and there aren’t any curveballs in his prep. I even ask my tried and true safety question at the end… **IS THERE ANYTHING WE HAVEN’T DISCUSSED, GOOD OR BAD, THAT YOU THINK I SHOULD KNOW?**. *Nope*. I think I’m all set.
We get into the hearing. I run through all of my evidence. All as planned. Restaurant operator gets up to cross examine my witness. First question.
RO: Did you fall asleep in my restaurant while you were preparing this report?
Witness: Yes
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Restaurant owner made him look like a d**g a****t.
Thankfully I was able to get a brief moment with my witness before redirect and I learned that it was a medical issue. We still won that one but W*F?!?!?
My cousin was the moron client. He and his second wife are divorcing and she wants full custody of the kids, no visitation, just lots of child support. He’s willing to a 50-50 split (at first) and finds an attorney for the case. They’re going over everything when he casually mentions how the mom d***s them literally every night so they sleep and she can go out to the bars while he works the night shift.
Cousin thought this was his smoking gun to beat her in the custody battle. Attorney had to explain that, no you can’t tell this to the judge or that you’ve known she’s been doing this for years. You’ll both lose the kids and they’ll go to state custody.
Both of them are petty incompetent and as you can imagine we don’t interact with that side of the family much (this has all been retold to me by other relatives. So don’t worry, cps WAS informed of all of this, I do not know the out come yet, I’d have to ask).
Client asked a friendly company to forge documents to provide evidence of a fair rate for defect rectification works. A whistle blower told the corruption investigations board.
Destroyed their credibility for the whole claim even where there was good grounds and ended up in a whole criminal investigation . Great billings for us though.
My father was handling a case of his friends family, about a property that this friend and his brothers and sister inherited. Horrible mess as you can imagine, deeply conflicted family. After few years on one of the court hearing one brother mentioned a name, that never appeared during the entire lawsuit. Turns out there was one more brother, that they all decided to not mention, because he was “a black sheep” of the family. Years of tiring work went down the drain. From what I understand my father (who was doing it all for free, because he “owed him”) got into argument with this friend,they never spoke to each other again and guy found a new lawyer.
The lawsuit was the first time I heard about the case/claim. I called up the manager and asked and he denied knowing anything. I held three separate interviews with him and his staff and all said nothing happened that day. We prepared a defense of “b******t.” At the manager’s deposition (after the standard state you name, etc) the first f*****g question the plaintiff’s attorney asked was “do you recognize my client.”
“Oh yeah… now that I see her I remember…”.
Failed to mention that he’d had a t*******e with his ex wife and her boyfriend two weeks before divorce proceedings. We didn’t learn this until the ex was on the stand. Such a fun surprise.















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