{"id":4309,"date":"2003-06-03T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/06\/03\/got-my-first-hate-mail-on-beh"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:56","slug":"got-my-first-hate-mail-on-behalf-of-trial-lawyers-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/06\/03\/got-my-first-hate-mail-on-behalf-of-trial-lawyers-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Got My First Hate Mail (on behalf of trial lawyers, of course)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">After just three days as a blawger, I got my first hate mail today.  As expected, I was called anti-lawyer and pro-insurance for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/06\/03#a21\">daring to believe<\/a> that the blanket use of standard contingency fees is unethical (by a writer who refused to be go on the record).  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">To my knowledge, no lawyer who charges each p\/i client the same standard fee has <em>ever<\/em> bothered to counter the ethics arguments &#8212; they only whine about disguising a &#8220;political issue&#8221; as a matter of ethics and making them look bad.  I&#8217;m glad these guys weren&#8217;t my moot court partners back in law school.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Arial\">P.S.  The fact that p\/i lawyers sometimes work hard on a case and don&#8217;t win does <em>not<\/em> justify a Standard contingency fee.   If you never lost, there&#8217;d be no risk of nonpayment and no reason for ever taking more than a normal hourly fee would provide (with interest, perhaps).<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just three days as a blawger, I got my first hate mail today. As expected, I was called anti-lawyer and pro-insurance for daring to believe that the blanket use of standard contingency fees is unethical (by a writer who refused to be go on the record). To my knowledge, no lawyer who charges each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-17v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}