During an off-the-cuff interview with Ridin Durty Radio I was asked two very important questions: 1️⃣ Have you ever had a client where you said, “I don’t care who you are or what situation you’re in, I will never ever represent you again.”? 2️⃣ How important to you, as an attorney, is it to know 100% that you’re representing a client who is telling the truth? The fact is that most lawyers wouldn’t dare to answer these questions honestly in a public setting with thousands of listeners, but I had no problem doing it! 🙌🏻 🔥Check out my answers here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Have you ever had a client for whom you said, “I don’t care who you are or what situation you are in, I will never represent you again.”? To put it bluntly, YES! Look, our clients are like the clients or customers in any other business. Whether you call them “clients”, “customers”, or even radio advertisers for someone like you, they all have their own ideas. The clients who like to tell me how to do my job are not my favorite clients. The clients who want to argue with everything you do are not my favorite clients. The clients who want to do all of that and then not pay are also not my favorite clients. So, yes, I have had many people who were my clients for years and years and, after a while, it just wasn’t worth the hassle anymore. I do not need the intrusion into my professional life that these types of clients represent. I think every lawyer, probably on the planet, has a client who they would refuse to represent in the future. Many of these types of clients are those who also tend to not tell the truth and try to hide things. A lot of people have even asked me if I would represent Donald Trump if he called me to represent him. He would be the kind of guy who I’d refuse to represent because he doesn’t tell the truth. That was going to be my next question. How important to you, as an attorney, is it to know 100% that you are representing a client who is telling you the truth? Well, I always impress upon my clients that their lawyer is their best friend regarding the matter that they’re seeking counsel on. Because their lawyer is their best friend and because everything that a client tells his lawyer is confidential, there is no reason to obfuscate, bend the truth, or leave certain material facts out of the story that they are going to tell me. So, I try to nip that in the butt right away. I tell them that, if I do not know the truth about everything when we get into court and something comes out that you did not tell me, or you told me the opposite of what the truth is, it will be the death knell of their case. If I find out that my client has lied to me or lied to the court, then that is going to cause me to withdraw as their legal representation.