How To Hire An Honest Lawyer ...and Other Oxymorons - Softcover

Martin, Mel S

9780964295100: How To Hire An Honest Lawyer ...and Other Oxymorons

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964295105 ISBN 13: 9780964295100

Publisher: Witty Books, 1995

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. So says Dick in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II, as he and Cade daydream of making a perfect kingdom. Even as early as 1590 lawyer bashing was a common pastime. Attorney Mel Martin has raised lawyer defamation to a fine art in How to Hire an Honest Lawyer ... and Other Oxymorons. This is a genuinely funny book. Martin has succeeded in providing a primer filled with tongue-in-cheek humor and wry observations about the law, the people who practice it, and those who need legal services. How to Hire an Honest Lawyer provides plenty of material for the novice basher to use when he or she feels out of place at the next cocktail or dinner party. After all, when everyone else is trading horror stories about divorce, bankruptcy, and the schemes of the attorneys hired to save their collective hides, a hapless non-litigant needs to hold up one end of the conversation. But How to Hire an Honest Lawyer... and other Oxymorons i

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From the Publisher:

Lawyers are such objects of scorn and the target of so many jokes it seems a wonder anyone in their right mind would consider taking up the profession. Why does a person choose to attend law school? Because they couldn't get into medical school. See? The quips fall like paper in a ticker tape parade.

Lawyers are so easy to roast you almost feel sorry for them. But when a person needs legal help he or she begins to understand why attorneys are held in such low regard. There are so many questions a client needs to have answered, but who answer them? Certainly not the lawyer. When a client gets totally frustrated it's time for comic relief. Attorney Mel Martin has written a hilarious new guide for the seeker of legal help. How to hire an Honest Lawyer ... and Other Oxymorons is a satirical "handbook" f or the innocent wandering into unmapped legal territory. It provides humorous landmarks so the naive client-to-be can find that elusive trophy-the successful, honest lawyer. The author conducts readers through the process; realizing a lawsuit is imminent, learning that representing themselves is not like on TV, and finally, the warning signs and symptoms of the different types of attorneys (Winningest, Honest, Cheap, Opinionated, and Available). He then devotes a chapter to disengaging the lawyer, very handy knowledge to have when the lawsuit has been settled ... or distorted out of all recognition.

Martin's dry wit provides everything from chuckles to outright guf f aws as he describes the ins and outs of the civil court system and the quirks of the different personalities working within it. How to Hire an Honest Lawyer ... and other oxymorons will delight even the most cynical attorney-hater as it provides an amusing yet perceptive view.

About the Author:

Mel Martin has practiced law for 25 years. He has a low income general practice with emphasis on low. He represents widows, orphans, and anyone else who can't afford to pay for legal services. He sells books to support his law practice.

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