We recently asked lawyers of the BuzzFeed Community to anonymously reveal the awful, evil, and/or guilty clients they regret representing. Here are the shocking results:
1. “My client killed her husband, the mistress, and the dog all because she was literally bored. She approved the affair. She would even watch them sometimes. But she got bored one day and shot them both, then poisoned the dog. I got her off on an insanity plea, but the look in her eyes was cold, calculated, and she was VERY proud of herself.”
—66, Texas
2. “I had to represent an alleged sexual harasser who worked for my client in a civil suit brought by the victim. It didn’t take long for me to realize that ‘alleged’ in that sentence should be replaced with ‘disgustingly guilty.’ He constantly made comments about my body or how good I looked. His lawyer! Defending him against sexual harassment!”
“And he freely admitted to the allegations (some of which included sexual battery), saying they were ‘no big deal.’ I hated every bone in his body.”
—44, California
3. “I had a case where I was representing a man who was denied his wife’s life insurance money due to the circumstances of her death. Every time I spoke with him, I just had this gut feeling that he killed his wife. I ran background checks and did a pretty deep dive into his personal history. Turns out, he had a previous wife who died under the exact same circumstances 10 years prior, and he had several domestic violence charges over the years.”
“I ended up getting him the money from his wife’s policy. I couldn’t prove anything, and this wasn’t a criminal case, so it wasn’t my job to delve into any of that, especially because he was my client. I looked him up recently, and he’s dead. POS.”
—29, Pennsylvania
Depress yourself further at
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lizmrichardson/lawyers-clients-court-cases-they-regret
