It's all about me

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I don't know whether secretaries here put Esq. after my name on letters or not. And I don't really care. I send out maybe 5 letters per year (high side estimate). In contracts, I put Esq. after the contact attorney for my firm if the person on the other side has put Esq. after their name in the notices section. And I might just leave it in if it's already in the form document. And the contact person is never me, so I don't particularly care. I guess I've just missed out on the mock-the-Esquire-signers bandwagon. Maybe my non-litigation background has let me down here.

I would never even think to indicate that I am a lawyer on any personal stuff (like checks). I typicaly hide the ball with strangers on the lawyer thing anyway because I am sick to fucking death of all the lawyers suck replies that I get upon answering the "what do you do?" question. Typically from people who have no earthly idea of what I do or that they are more likely to be hit by lightning than they are to run into me at the courthouse.

I typically answer the "what do you do" question by saying "I'm a facilitator. I'm one of the 99% of lawyers who don't chase ambulances."