Comments on: Don’t Send Your Secretary or Paralegal To Court http://soloinchicago.com/496/dont-send-your-secretary-or-paralegal-to-court/ Down-To-Earth Advice for Legal Entrepreneurs in Chicagoland and Around the World! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:47:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Passion&amp;Happiness http://soloinchicago.com/496/dont-send-your-secretary-or-paralegal-to-court/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Passion&amp;Happiness Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:37:00 +0000 http://soloinchicago.com/?p=496#comment-210 This is ridiculous. The lawyer should have come in with a wheelchair or crutches. Why would he send his secretary? Was anybody paying him? Does he not have friends that are lawyers? <br/>Regardless this is unacceptable: The secretary will not be able to deal and she will not know how to approach the court. Nor will your wife, unless she is a lawyer too. <br/>Wonderful post. Looks like more people need to learn this. <br/>I, however, do not see how it is not obvious.<br/><br/>-Leadea<br/><br/><a HREF="http://www.paralegal.edu" REL="nofollow">paralegal studies<br/></a> This is ridiculous. The lawyer should have come in with a wheelchair or crutches. Why would he send his secretary? Was anybody paying him? Does he not have friends that are lawyers?
Regardless this is unacceptable: The secretary will not be able to deal and she will not know how to approach the court. Nor will your wife, unless she is a lawyer too.
Wonderful post. Looks like more people need to learn this.
I, however, do not see how it is not obvious.

-Leadea

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]]> By: Chuck http://soloinchicago.com/496/dont-send-your-secretary-or-paralegal-to-court/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Chuck Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:20:00 +0000 http://soloinchicago.com/?p=496#comment-190 I had this happen in a case in which I was involved years ago in bankruptcy. The attorney, a solo, sent his wife to appear. The judge found out she was not a lawyer and blew his stack. He told her that "wives cannot appear in court for their husbands". Then he got embarrassed and had to explain on the record that was not true for my wife because she is a lawyer that regularly practices in the Court. Then the Judge was concerned that what he said my be taken as sexist. So, he was made and trying to explain things in ways that was at one hand kind of funny and on the other hand confusing. I remember later feeling bad about it because I found out the attorney had in fact had a small heart attack. She never said anything of this in front of the Judge, and if she had called me or told me, I would have informed the Court of the situation and asked for the continuance myself. She was just trying to make sure there was not a non-appearance, I guess, and then got so flustered when the judge went off that she did not defend the her appearance any further. Maybe it is the same situation in the case you witnessed with the broken leg. I had this happen in a case in which I was involved years ago in bankruptcy. The attorney, a solo, sent his wife to appear. The judge found out she was not a lawyer and blew his stack. He told her that “wives cannot appear in court for their husbands”. Then he got embarrassed and had to explain on the record that was not true for my wife because she is a lawyer that regularly practices in the Court. Then the Judge was concerned that what he said my be taken as sexist. So, he was made and trying to explain things in ways that was at one hand kind of funny and on the other hand confusing. I remember later feeling bad about it because I found out the attorney had in fact had a small heart attack. She never said anything of this in front of the Judge, and if she had called me or told me, I would have informed the Court of the situation and asked for the continuance myself. She was just trying to make sure there was not a non-appearance, I guess, and then got so flustered when the judge went off that she did not defend the her appearance any further. Maybe it is the same situation in the case you witnessed with the broken leg.

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