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Runaway train

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Gideon

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Sometimes it feels like that’s what our clients are: a runaway train, wrong way on a one-way track. You try your best: you plead, you exhort, you beg; yet they have their own wisdom, their own logic, their own reason for doing things. Doesn’t matter that you’re an attorney and doesn’t matter that you’re trained to help them. Clients will do what clients want to do.

It’s disappointing and frustrating. We dedicate our lives, nay, our careers to those that no one else will help. We fight with them, we get angry with them, but we do it all for them. Not because we’re better; rather because we might as well be them.

PD Dude is experiencing this and I completely understand. You second guess yourself: “Could I have been more convincing? Should I have explained it better? Did I do something wrong?” It’s only because you care.

The lesson is never to give up, never to be defeated, but to know that you tried when not many others would.

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Comment by Woman in Black
2007-07-17 10:17:27

Awesome song/video. Good job.

In my opinion, being an adult child of an alcoholic is almost a prerequisite to public defending. You try to fix the unfixable, and fail, and keep doing it, over and over and over. Because the next time might be the time you succeed. Just one of my many theories;-)

Have a nice day!!!

 
Comment by Gideon
2007-07-17 20:32:43

[quote comment="2879"]Awesome song/video. Good job.

In my opinion, being an adult child of an alcoholic is almost a prerequisite to public defending. You try to fix the unfixable, and fail, and keep doing it, over and over and over. Because the next time might be the time you succeed. Just one of my many theories;-)

Have a nice day!!![/quote]Thanks!

There are days when we all feel sad and disappointed. I just wanted to remind everyone that we are doing good things and to keep our chins up.

I truly believe we are engaged in a noble profession.

 
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