Old Souls

“You have a client to call, remember?” “Never trust a flight attendant or much of anyone with our case work. We’re waiting until we have our drinks and they pull the curtain. And that’s not paranoid. I know an attorney who ran his mouth on a flight. He later found out that the flight attendant had been paid by opposing counsel to listen in on his conversations. Needless to say, the case took a brutally bad turn for him and his client. They lost.” “I would have never been paranoid enough to worry about such a thing,” she admits. “Lesson learned and thankfully not the hard way.” “It’s a good reason to never use your client’s name in public, and a lesson I’ve learned personally from experience, don’t say anything on the phone you don’t want recorded.” “You’ve had that happen?” “Once,” I say. “I almost lost the case over something that wasn’t at all what it was made out to be by the prosecution.” “But you didn’t lose.” “That’s the thing about a winning record,” I say. “Anyone who has one,