Originally published at: Steve Bannon's lawyers sue him for $500k in unpaid bills | Boing Boing
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If one does not require the lawyer to be “good” then we may suppose there is a virtually infinite supply of lawyers with which to defend against other lawyers’ lawsuits. (if necessary funded via scam, oligarchs or Saudi princes, …oh my)
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This group seems to avoid paying legal bills all the time. How the heck aren’t all the lawyers “payment up front”?
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That’s probably where the nice round figure of $375,000 came from - a retainer.
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The judge, Juan Merchan, gave Bannon until the end of February to find new lawyers, or risk getting one appointed for him.
How awful! (For that lawyer.)
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More like “Haw Haw” in this case.
I have no sympathy for any lawyer who takes these fascist deadbeats and grifters on as clients.
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“Talk to my lawyers. …oh, wait.”
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“What?, you won’t take payment in shirts? I’m wearing at least $500k of them right now!”
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Jokes explained, reasonable rates.
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Right back at you!
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I’ve been wondering for a while now if the day would come when TFG would end up in court represented by a public defender. 
Maybe we’ll see members of his inner circle going that way first.
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Every lawyer in the world has had clients they despised. It’s part of the job. Everyone gets representation.
Lawyers don’t defend guilty clients. They defend the Constitution.
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Six, err, four cases of Coors is the best I can do.
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None of that changes my lack of sympathy for these lawyers. Bannon and Biff and their ilk aren’t indigent clients (they just cry poor) represented pro bono or on the instructions of a judge. These firms had a choice in taking on clients who are notorious for stiffing their counsel and for being dishonest in general. They chose … poorly.
Also, this firm in particular is asking to be released from representing Bannon because he isn’t paying his bills. So much for “defending the Constitution” (which, incidentally, their fascist client would use as toilet paper given the opportunity.)
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“Best”
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It’s not about being indigent. The shittiest client I ever had was also the richest. I hated every second I had to be in a room with him, and I hated his bullshit greed-based lawsuit. But he got the same zealous advocacy that any client got. That’s the oath you take.
Also, this firm in particular is asking to be released from representing Bannon because he isn’t paying his bills.
Are they supposed to keep representing him while they’re suing him? That might be a teensy conflict of interest. 
Look, it’s obvious to everyone in the world that Bannon is an evil, lawless piece of shit. But you seem to be saying if an attorney represents him, the attorney must be evil too. And I’m telling you, as someone with many years of firsthand experience, that is not how the profession works.
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Did he pay you? If so it’s a different situation.
Are they supposed to keep representing him while he’s not paying his bills? From my experience with lawyers, that would be a big “no” on how the profession works.
Then you’re not reading as carefully as I’d expect of a lawyer. I’m saying that if an attorney represents a known deadbeat and liar, I have no sympathy for them when they end up in a position like this.
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