Thread by @greg_doucette, Oh did I tell y'all about the bizarre sh*t I had to [...]

Oh did I tell y& #39;all about the bizarre sh*t I had to deal with this morning?

Where I& #39;d supposedly been retained on a murder case by people I never spoke with in a county where I don& #39;t practice?

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So I& #39;ve mentioned before that I& #39;ve been *profoundly* fortunate when it comes to friends. I& #39;ve got people in just another every judicial district in the state

It& #39;s both humbling and awesome af

One of them – a former trial team partner of mine – works in a county about 1.5hrs from here

And sent me this text while I was getting ready to hop on a Zoom meeting for the next Fireside Lawyers ep

My first reaction is " #LOLwut"

Then my friends like "no, seriously"

At which point my face is like "

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While I& #39;m waiting to hear back, I log in to our calendar system to see what this guy is charged with

Thinking maybe he& #39;s tied in with some of my street pharmacists (for whom I occasionally travel)

And it... was not what I expected

Then sh*t just got downright weird

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But I start freaking out anyway, because I handle my own data entry. So if I *do* represent someone in a county I don& #39;t go to, I& #39;d have entered it somewhere

First thing I check is my bank account, because murder cases are $$$$$$

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Then the client management system

Then the accounting software

Then the receptionist

Then my emails

Nada

So at this point I& #39;m 99.99% sure I& #39;ve never talked to this guy or his family

And the texts from my buddy down there were reassuring

But then...

I get a "3 messages" text, with this as the first one (and an exceptionally long pause before the rest)

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On the one hand, that quote was way too low for a murder (my baseline for A-B felonies is $50K) and my typical payment terms were wrong (usually 1/2 up front and 1/2 in 30 days)

On the other hand, the person who referred him was a classmate of mine who sends a lot of folks to me

So I start freaking out again wondering if I& #39;ve somehow talked to this guy and just somehow lost the paperwork... and the money... and the contact trail

(Utterly inconceivable btw, but our minds believe dumb sh*t on occasion)

Then the next 2 messages come in, and my lawyer friend is thinking the same thing as me with the name-dropping

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But then I breathe a sigh of relief, because I don& #39;t have a secretary

I& #39;ve got a receptionist, but we closed the office back in mid-March. And this guy wasn& #39;t arrested until May

So calls for it would go to voicemail, which would leave a trail either via email or in my app

At which point I just start scrolling all my old calls looking for anything anywhere near that part of the state

And get to today...

And find this at 10:23am...

Which you& #39;ll notice is the exact same time as my friend& #39;s first text

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