Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 403
This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: When the Lawyer Is Fake
People put an enormous amount of trust in their lawyer. They hand over their money, their secrets, and quite often the most frightening problem of their entire life. They assume that the person on the other side of the desk actually went to law school, actually passed the bar, and actually has a licence in good standing. Most of the time that assumption is correct. Every so often it is wrong.
This week I went looking for the people who pretended. I’m not so much interested in lawyers who made mistakes or lawyers who got suspended for the usual reasons. I mean people who were never entitled to practise at all, or who lost the right years ago and simply kept going. The stories come from three different places and they share one common thread. Somebody decided that a law degree, a bar exam, and a licence were optional, and a lot of trusting people paid the price. One of them even built a courtroom!
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