http://myshingle.com/2005/04/articles/articles/why-marketing-articles-like-this-one-drive-me-crazy/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://myshingle.com/2005/04/articles/articles/why-marketing-articles-like-this-one-drive-me-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Bryan Gates Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:13:01 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/152/why-marketing-articles-like-this-one-drive-me-crazy/#comment-332 When I first started practicing, I got lots of referrals where the client was delusional or the case was utterly hopeless. I promised myself I would not refer delusional or hopeless clients to other attorneys wasting both their time and the attorney. If I think the client's case is hopeless, I tell them that and suggest that another attorney might have a different opinion, but I don't send them to a specific lawyer. I don't think it is professional to pass along timewasters to someone else. When I first started practicing, I got lots of referrals where the client was delusional or the case was utterly hopeless. I promised myself I would not refer delusional or hopeless clients to other attorneys wasting both their time and the attorney.
If I think the client’s case is hopeless, I tell them that and suggest that another attorney might have a different opinion, but I don’t send them to a specific lawyer. I don’t think it is professional to pass along timewasters to someone else.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2005/04/articles/articles/why-marketing-articles-like-this-one-drive-me-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-5306 Bryan Gates Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:13:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/152/why-marketing-articles-like-this-one-drive-me-crazy/#comment-5306 When I first started practicing, I got lots of referrals where the client was delusional or the case was utterly hopeless. I promised myself I would not refer delusional or hopeless clients to other attorneys wasting both their time and the attorney. If I think the client's case is hopeless, I tell them that and suggest that another attorney might have a different opinion, but I don't send them to a specific lawyer. I don't think it is professional to pass along timewasters to someone else. When I first started practicing, I got lots of referrals where the client was delusional or the case was utterly hopeless. I promised myself I would not refer delusional or hopeless clients to other attorneys wasting both their time and the attorney.
If I think the client’s case is hopeless, I tell them that and suggest that another attorney might have a different opinion, but I don’t send them to a specific lawyer. I don’t think it is professional to pass along timewasters to someone else.

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