You expect a lawyer to be more appreciative. But when your client is a lawyer, anything can happen. Whether it is a challenge to their professional reputation or their involvement with their business associates, they care a lot. That is what can lead them to nudge you so much. Kathleen DeLaRosa, a solo practitioner in Phoenix who has represented fellow lawyers in civil litigation matters, agrees.
Lawyers understand what is going on.
They know that their case will not be resolved overnight. At the same time, however, this knowledge and experience often makes lawyers unable to cede control. Instead, they may insist on controlling strategy, negotiating for themselves, and even questioning the opposing counsel while on the witness stand. Because of this role, which lawyers find so hard to shed, she lectures most of her attorney-clients on the ground rules of her engagement. Once told the ground rules, Gronkiewicz reports that few lawyers are problematic clients for her.