Getting fired is not fun

From public defender blogger MissTyrios:

I got fired by a client for the first time this week. And even though I knew it was coming (he had fired every other lawyer he has ever been appointed and brought lawsuits against judges, jails, etc)…it still sucked. To have a client announce in open court that he is “completely unsatisfied with counsel” just blows, even knowing that I worked my butt off on his case and was expecting to get fired far in advance of actually being so.

The worst part was knowing that I had other clients sitting in the audience - I know the judge knows I work hard and that I am a good lawyer, I know the other lawyers know I work hard and that I am a good lawyer. But my other clients - even knowing that I have worked hard and been a good lawyer to them - are the most likely to take a firing and such proclamation in court to heart. And I didn’t want them to lose faith in me or to resort to any perception that public defenders are not “real” lawyers. Luckily, these particular clients did not.

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