I'm not a lawyer but a I am a paralegal at a small law firm, not sure if this counts. We have a personal injury client who was hit by a fire station chief while he was plowing a driveway of the condominium he owns, our client who rents from him was on the driveway shoveling her own car out. This was back in February when it snowed 2 feet. For some reason he decides to hire this baby-faced, fresh out of law school lawyer who stuttered throughout our client's entire deposition. Seriously, his depositions are mostly "uh.... let me rephrase that...uhhh...uhhh...well....I'll rephrase." This lawyer then leaves all of his material and notes behind after the deposition ends and asks that we fax it back to him then destroy the originals since his office is 3 hours away. I couldn't help but read through some of his notes where he clearly states they have no case, that he was worried his client had tampered with evidence (there was video of the accident from a camera outside the condo but it took him months to get us the tapes and they were edited) and that they would be willing to settle for $200,000. We originally asked for $400,000 but never thought it would be anything near that, we didn't even think we would get a 6 digit payout. Now we've decided not to settle and go for the original $400,000 but will probably settle once he offers the $200,000. Baby face is taking the deposition of our client's daughter today, since she was present during the accident. I look forward to watching baby face stumble.