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Showing up late (or not at all) to appointments, and then when it is brought up saying, “Well, it’s not like you’re a doctor.”Offering to do a case pro bono, getting turned down because a non-lawyer has told the potential client how to do it “better”, the case going completely wrong as a result, and then the potential client coming back and asking you to fix it for pro bono. “Sorry, but no, as I said, you will pay a premium now.”Asking for a fee agreement that is only paid if the case is successful: no, never going to happen, unless you measure success by the fact that I did the tasks I promised to do.Not carrying their own weight: “Can you do this case for me?” “Sure, I need to get A, B, and C from you.” “Can’t you get that?” “Can I get the list of every place you have lived since you were 16 years old, your original birth certificate, and [yet another difficult thing]?” “Yes.” “Sure, but it will require multiple privacy releases and you will have to pay for those services by the hour.” “Okay! How long will it take you?” “Most likely 10 hours or more, it will cost you several thousand dollars.” “Why can’t you do it for the flat fee you quoted me to do the case?” “Yah, not going to happen.”Client entering an agreement to do a case, with a flat fee, and then disappearing for two years. Coming back, and expecting the early negotiated agreement to still be the basis of the agreement.Showing up, without an appointment, and telling the person who has an appointment that they need to leave because you have to meet with the attorney now. — I refuse to work on cases with people like that.It depends on the time and what is going on, but different things annoy differently on different days.Basically: Normal things that annoy anyone in a customer-service oriented job.One thing that does not annoy me is when someone comes in and says, “My Uncle’s girlfriend’s first husband’s brother’s daughter’s best friend’s uncle’s grandfather’s acquaintance’s great-grandson did a case just like mine in only 2 weeks. Why are you saying it will take over a year?” Mostly because my response is, “Let me make a deal with you, if that person accomplished that case within the last year, bring him into me and show me how it was done. If what he did was legal and can be reproduced with your case, then I will not only pay him $2,000, but I will pay you $1,000, and I will waive all of the fees for your case.” Of the likely more than a hundred times I have made this offer . . . nobody has ever followed-through or even tried to present someone. Offering a reward for that type of nonsense really does stop it quickly, and if someone could show me how to work that type of miracle I would gladly pay.

The same reason they scream about privacy (most don’t, by the way) and still watch soap operas, televelas, slice of life anime, and play social media/games that sacrifice their privacy.If humans were not inherently busybodies, we would hardly need to enforce privacy — but we aren’t. We’re mostly voyeurs.In the case of animal documentaries, there’s an added incentive that most people don’t consider animals to have privacy rights, so being voyeuristic is just a means of scientific inquiry. You can’t get a cetacean to sign a privacy release.

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