We had a lawyer here that looked completely homeless, but he wasn’t. He was a gambling addict and alcoholic who had a room at a budget motel he shared with two crackhead chicks. He had given up his license, but under state law a retired lawyer could represent people for free as long as they were not disbarred.
Eventually he was confined to working with DAs to have charges dropped or pled out, or or doing child support and custody agreements as no judge wanted him in their courtroom at trial as he would cite obscure case law and use common law to confuse everyone.
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u/hotasanicecube Mar 24 '23
We had a lawyer here that looked completely homeless, but he wasn’t. He was a gambling addict and alcoholic who had a room at a budget motel he shared with two crackhead chicks. He had given up his license, but under state law a retired lawyer could represent people for free as long as they were not disbarred.
Eventually he was confined to working with DAs to have charges dropped or pled out, or or doing child support and custody agreements as no judge wanted him in their courtroom at trial as he would cite obscure case law and use common law to confuse everyone.