Lawyer Nightmares, When Your Client Wants to Talk Who’s to Stop Them

Posted by lukegilman

April 21, 2008

As Scott Greenfield noted at Simple Justice in Rusty Hardin Wrongly Maligned For Roger Clemens, “Clemens knew the risks and chose to talk. There’s a limit to what a lawyer can do,” as in there’s a professional obligation to abide by the decisions of yoru client even if you know they’re making a monumentally stupid decision. The lawyer’s job is to advice; as long as the client’s mentally competent, it’s the client’s call.

You’ve got to think the lawyer for this woman just wanted to strangle her when they saw this -

via Carolyn Elefant at Legal Blog Watch

Ordinarily, lawyers spend most of their time counseling clients to keep their mouths shut about their cases. Walsh-Smith did just the opposite, venting about her ex in a professionally produced video that she posted here on YouTube. Among other things, Walsh-Smith revealed details about her sex life (or apparent lack thereof) in the video and claimed that her ex failed to comply with the terms of the pre-nup that he’d had her sign. When I last checked the video, 144,000 people had already viewed it.

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