Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
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Also, I've had clients tell me specifically to be an asshole with the other side, be pushy, be annoying. I don't know if that's unusual or not ... Perhaps not incidentally, I've seen this have excellent results in negotiations
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That happens. A lot of clients like that. But there's plenty of NY lawyers that who act that way naturally or who only have practice negotiating that way. This does them and their clients little good on a deal when their clients lack leverage. And the client is forced to cave every time the lawyer starts acting like a prick about getting something or giving something they don't really need.
Some of these attorneys also go overboard, get careless, and say things based on inaccurate or insufficient legal analysis, and get called on the carpet for it.
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with the kind of stuff I do, anybody who says they have any particular experience that is very relevant to any given situation is pretty much full of shit
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Even if you're working on deals that are custom made for a financial, regulatory and/or tax play, some aspects of these deals are customary. People also make analogies to other types of deals where something is or isn't customary.
