I have hired many lawyers over my life, civil lawyers, criminal lawyers even lawyers that knew who would take a bribe {not that I would ever admit to breaking that law}.
Even the ones that "won" civil cases and I got some of my own money, I hated.
The criminal lawyers that kept me out {or got me out} of jail I had more respect for because they never pretended to care about my innocence or guilt, they were only in it for the money.
Whether on a retainer being paid by the milli-second, or on a percentage basis, I hated all of them.
I still have a very good lawyer that I almost don't hate very much {he's been a social friend for several decades} but what vampires those bastards are, and I can never "love my lawyer".
I’ve only paid for one, with my own money. Hired several with company money.
My guy won a week long DWI trial for me in Houston in 1983. It was a week that would have made a terrific TV show. I still LOVE that guy. He kept my life from going way off the rails from the very start.
Oh. Btw, I was truly not guilty. HPD was doing a federal-paid for DWI task force sweep. They arrested 80 people that night. I blew a 0.11 on their breathalyzer downtown, after drinking a total of three beers over a 6 hour period. The guy who blew the machine before me blew a 0.45. Which would make him dead. What I hate ? Houston cops and judges from the 1980’s.