Separate the Wheat from the Chaff
A prosecutor friend of mine recently forwarded me a blog post from Mark Bennett, a Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer, entitled, “Yeah, Um, I Think We’ll Pass on This One.” In response to an email solicitation offering LPO services from New Delhi based law firm G.P. Law Solutions, Bennett writes:
If I were in some area of the law in which the outcome didn’t matter, I might let you summarize a deposition just for grins. As it is, though, I would not allow you to touch one of my clients’ cases if you were the last “advoate” on Earth.
It’s not simply your cavalier attitude toward indefinite articles, nor your charming omission of verbs connecting subjects and objects, nor your Generation-Y approach to spelling and grammar generally. It is, rather, that your tolerance for “quality issues” is clearly much higher than my clients (whose futures are on the line) would consent to have applied to their cases.
It might be surprising to Bennett and others who have received similar solicitations that I agree with the underlying substance of Bennett’s reaction to G.P. Law Solutions. And I certainly find his writing to be quite entertaining. Continue reading ‘Separate the Wheat from the Chaff’ »
