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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:33:30 -0800

Andy from
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White collar defense matter, advice please

Prospective clients' homes and offices were raided by the FBI.  Other than the
obvious, which is that I can only get paid with clean money, what should I do? 
First rodeo in federal criminal court, lol.

#LawFirm 

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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:36:03 -0800

Andy from
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This is some Twilight Zone stuff right here.  Shaking my head that I will end up
live-blogging this one on my own bulletin board.

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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:36:08 -0800

Wily from
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Probably watch Season 5 of Better Call Saul and do what Jimmy does for Lalo
Salamanca

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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 08:55:15 -0800

zerosugar
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If the client has sources of clean money, then I wouldn’t worry. I do know of
an attorney here who had problems, but it wasn’t white color crime. They were
paid by a drug dealer. This may be good experience for you, but I can also see
why you would be hesitant to take the case. Maybe ask some colleagues in the
area who have represented clients in federal criminal court. I personally
don’t like criminal cases. When I was studying for bar, criminal procedure was
the hardest topic for me and even in law school. I just didn’t get it. Civil
procedure seemed much more straight forward to me and I liked that the rules are
sort of a blue print for going to war. Then you can win money too if you have a
slam dunk case. 

As long as you aren’t holding property in collateral or anything like that.
Maximum client can say a family member gave them money for attorneys fees. 

Maybe start focusing on civil cases that you think will settle outside of court,
i.e. rape cases. In my opinion, that’s where money is in California given they
changed the SOL there. 

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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 08:56:43 -0800

zerosugar
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Cases that settle in mediation will bring you good money with little worries. 

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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 10:29:55 -0800

Andy from
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The clients hired me.  I'm not sure what else I can or should disclose on here. 
Will know more in the near future.

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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:20:14 -0700

Andy from
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This is a really interesting case and I'm not sure what will happen.  That's all
I can say right now.  Lol.

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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:08:41 -0700

Andy from
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I will say that I recycled my JDU code to create a private discussion board for
this group of clients, so that we can avoid all the group texts and emails and
preserve information security.  BALLER.
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