Thread by @RMFifthCircuit

So this is a signature Raffi-Stapled-to-his-Pompous-White-Horse moment, but the more I do this work, the less likely I am to actually voice the unkind thing about my opponent that I'm thinking in an email or in person, even in private.

Just, what does that do for you?

https://twitter.com/TylerTalbert/status/1331288067655819273

A couple of things. Yes, sometimes OC really is a chickensh$#. That's even true if they are a really good lawyer who you are cordial with and get along with. I am sometimes to. It's a given.

Nonetheless, I think you should try to limit this stuff. And it's not just 2/

because sometimes what you said slips out in a reply-all or maybe the person you said it to repeats it to someone else.

I'm having trouble explaining it exactly, but I feel better about my practice when I'm not mad in that way at OC. Yeah, they're representing their client

And they just said I'm full of it, and I'm not, so I'm mad. But in the end it's all so much water under the bridge. Try it.

Why'd I start this mini-thread the way I did? Because someone is going to shortly tell me, "But what if my opponents are doing evil stuff?"

Well, all I can say is that my practice is pretty mundane. I mostly represent people, both plaintiffs and defendants, in disputes about money. I can't tell you how to feel in other kinds of practice. Those are important cases, but 99.9% of the things my opponents say

are well within the range of things I would be happy to say if I was representing the other side. I completely understand that other practices are different.

OK, soap box over.