Lincoln wasn't a wonderful President, but he had some great philosophy. One of his gems was "A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade."
If you go to a restaurant that claims to have "homemade pies" for which they're charging $18.00 each, you can choose to buy that pie, go to the restaurant down the street that charges $12.00, go to the grocery and pay $5.00, or buy the ingredients and make the bloody thing yourself for $3.50. This is the free market, and if that attorney commands a fee like that, boy, he better be pretty good or he's going to find himself without any clients, and then it won't matter what he's charging, no one will pay it.
There is another bit of philosophy that applies, too, but I don't think this was Lincoln's: The man who is his own attorney has a fool for a client.
Blessings,
Bill
If you go to a restaurant that claims to have "homemade pies" for which they're charging $18.00 each, you can choose to buy that pie, go to the restaurant down the street that charges $12.00, go to the grocery and pay $5.00, or buy the ingredients and make the bloody thing yourself for $3.50. This is the free market, and if that attorney commands a fee like that, boy, he better be pretty good or he's going to find himself without any clients, and then it won't matter what he's charging, no one will pay it.
There is another bit of philosophy that applies, too, but I don't think this was Lincoln's: The man who is his own attorney has a fool for a client.
Blessings,
Bill
