A Note To My Adversaries:

Nice to meet you, I look forward to working with you, thanks for Googling me.

Most likely you're reading this page because your client has just gotten a demand letter with my signature on it.  I sent your client that letter because of some evidence I had seen:  evidence that your client had breached a contract, run afoul of a statute, done something wrong.  But I am not the kind of lawyer who is afraid to change his mind, and I am not the kind of lawyer who is afraid to stand down when standing down is the right thing to do.  If you want me to change my mind, however, and if you want me to stand down, you must convince me with evidence. 

So, while I do enjoy the theatrics of the defense bar—the weary disregard, the energetic sanctimony, the threats of baseless counterclaims, the pompous shock at the suggestion that this decent, prudent, humble company you represent could possibly be owned by bigots and thieves—please just show me the evidence.  Get your client's permission to turn over the stock plan and the commissions statements, and the emails from June and the HR notes from January.  If I am wrong, your client only helps itself by proving that to me now, while we're still talking, as opposed to later, when I am serving discovery demands. 

But, like I said, nice to meet you, I look forward to working with you.