No Respect

T-Bone got an email sent by opposing counsel to his client regarding T-Bone's handling of the client's case. A lot of emails had been flying back and forth about an impending hearing that, unless the client comes up with the evidence required by law to prove his case, T-Bone will win, hands down. The client wants to fight, but opposing counsel knows: a) they don't have the evidence, so they will lose; and b) his fee alone for taking the case to hearing is more than the assessment the client would be required to pay, so the client's going to be pissed either way. So what does this esteemed member of The State Bar do? The obvious, which is throw T-Bone under the bus BUT not without making a complete ass of himself in the process by accidentally CCing T-Bone on this message:

I am sending this email string to you so you can get a little taste of the resistance we are facing ... The opposing counsel, T-Bone, is just not going to deal with us. There is a rule directly on point, and in his mind, that is the end of the story. He is not going to do the right thing here which is to assume we (have the required evidence). Without (it), we are dead in his mind and he won't even agree to meet to try to just do a walk away. If T-Bone was not such a robot, we might have been able to work a deal with him but his world is just too black and white.

If you know T-Bone, you know that he is the most non-confrontational, easy-going guy around, and even HE was like, WTF? So he called the guy, who was totally confused and mortified and semi-apologetic. Then he said, "You know I don't mean that, right? It's just part of the game. We just can't win ... blahblahblah." See, it's assholes like that that make people hate lawyers. But I'm pretty sure anybody that resorts to grade school name-calling and can't figure out how to use Outlook properly is a fucking idiot anyway. It just so happens he's also a lawyer.