A young lawyer was defending a wealthy businessman in a complicated lawsuit.\n
Unfortunately, the evidence was against his client, and he feared the worst.\n
So, the lawyer asked the senior partner of his law firm if it would be appropriate to send the judge a box of Cuban cigars.\n
The partner was horrified.\n
\u201cA judge is an honourable man,\u201d the partner exclaimed.\n \u201cIf you do that, I guarantee you will lose the case!\u201d\n Weeks later the judge ruled in favour of the lawyer\u2019s client.\n The partner took him to lunch to congratulate him.\n \u201cAren\u2019t you glad you didn\u2019t send those cigars to the judge?\u201d the partner asked.\n But I did send them,\u201d answered the lawyer.\n \u201cI just enclosed the plaintiff\u2019s business card.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A young lawyer was defending a wealthy businessman in a complicated lawsuit. Unfortunately, the evidence was against his client, and he feared the worst. So, the lawyer asked the senior partner of his law firm if it would be appropriate to send the judge a box of Cuban cigars. The partner was horrified. \u201cA judge\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":65403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"A young lawyer was defending a wealthy businessman in a complicated lawsuit. Unfortunately, the evidence was against his client,...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[370,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-65401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jokes","8":"tag-funny","9":"tag-joke"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-Lawyer-Was-Pretty-Sure-He-Was-Going-To-Lose-His-Case.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}