May 25, 2013
OK, I’ll confess that my feathers are a little ruffled today (maybe a case of a bad nights sleep), but seeing Guy Kawasaki’s Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers just stuck in my craw. I can handle lawyer jokes just fine, but after seeing so many entrepreneurs shoot themselves in the foot because they were too scared/cheap/undercapitalized to seek the expert legal advice they really needed, after a while, enough is enough. Lawyer-bashing is certainly not a recent phenomenon, but its prevalence is like watching The Flavor of Love: first, its dopey entertainment; then, it becomes just plain stupid; finally, I just want to smash the television for projecting this nonsense. (That’s when I yell at my husband to change the channel). I’m not saying that lawyers are perfect or immune from these things (and I thank fellow Entrepreneur blogger Tim Berry for putting a soft touch to the issue), but remember this: Lawyers get lied to, too. A So do other service providers. Here’s the top 10 lies I’ve been told over the years.…
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