Co-Workers: Please Oh Please Try To Steal My Clients.

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Lawyers–especially of the corporate variety–are far from the Fighters and Alpha People portrayed in Television Dramas and in the Media. We’re among the most Fearful and Insecure Creatures on Earth.

If you find this performance review idea preposterous, please ask yourself why. We first mentioned the title’s idea in a 2006 post. It attracted attention–but many people thought we were kidding. We weren’t.

Some lawyer-writers tried to even analyze it, which was strange, and kind of sad. Lawyers–after actors, junior high kids at that first dance, and aging beauty queens just discovering pharmaceutical speed–have to be the most insecure creatures on earth. They think in terms of scarcity–never in terms of plenty.

Someone else is about to get something that is theirs.