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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Biggest asshole lawyers I've dealt with so far were in Dublin (multiple firms, multiple practice areas). Go figure. Charlotte NC is up there in the asshole quotient, in my experience, as is LA - but I've only dealt with the big LA firms, really, and big firms just breed & protect assholes more than midsize or smaller firms.
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Dublin, Ireland? I've never met anyone from Ireland who's that much of an asshole, certainly not compared to the NYC average. Lawyer or not. Especially the women in Ireland. If it weren't for their teeth, hell, the whole country might be hot.
I don't deal much with LA lawyers, but all the Charlotee people seem quite nice to me.
My list of biggest asshole lawyer locations, in decreasing assholeness:
1. NYC, although maybe it's just by sheer number, not rate
2. [random medium size markets where they have a big chip on their shoulder about not being a bigger market; think St. Louis, Portland, Minneapolis]
3. D.C.
4. [random foreign cities where U.S. lawyers practice; think London, Paris, Frankfurt, etc.; what, did you assholes all leave the U.S. because everyone hated you here?]
5. Boston
Generally, I find smaller markets to be kinder and easier to work with, as long as you don't treat them like bumpkins and explain the stuff that needs to be explained. In my case, it needs to be explained not because these guys are dumb or anything, but because they don't do the volume of these kinds of transactions that I do. But, except for a few medium markets, I've been pretty happy with my dealings with markets smaller than mine.
