A lot of people have questions about whether attorney’s ever
really get angry with each other, or if it is all just for show? The
answer to both questions is yes.
Sometimes you strike a posture just to please your client
and other times you get really offended at the arrogance and condescension of
opposing counsel. I recently had a case where my client rescued his
elderly Uncle from an abusive and neglectful environment in California and
brought him back to Texas.
The old man’s wife had been extremely cruel to him and was
arrested for elder abuse just before my client’s intervention. About a
month after the rescue, the Uncle passed away in Texas. Shortly
afterwards I got served with a Divorce Petition filed by the wife’s attorney in
California. I sent her the following note:
To my surprise I got the following letter from a different
California lawyer, to wit:
I decided to reply in kind and to date I have not had any
reply to my response.
