Hat tip to @infobunny.
Punters. Yea, we (whack job Dan Hull excepted) hate them all; with scant exception they are whiny sniveling wretches: an honourable dispensation is granted for those that take Geeklawyer drinking and whoring, of course - they are the very finest of fellows and Geeklawyer overcharges them only modestly.
But the Daily Torygraph retells a Legal Business magazine story of what is, short of an execution style slaying, hands down the classiest response ever to the non-payment of a bill. Suing? Nah:
A City firm reacted to a client's failure to pay its fees by taking a large group of junior lawyers to a bar owned by the client. Having drunk the bar dry, they left without paying the bill.
Geeklawyer rarely doffs his wig to any man on the matter of proffering cold dishes but this unknown firm (someone please say who) gets the much coveted Geeklawyer Revenge Award 2008.
Geeklawyer would have done it better. He'd have hired the bar for the weekend (& had his regulatory law partners arrange an extended bar license) invited all the firm, including non-fee earners secretaries the janitors their family & friends, to drink what they pleased in what quantity they desired.
The bill? Oh, he'd have sent it back with "Charge to our 'SetOff' credit card please".
New blog post: Geeklawyer Revenge Award 2008. Low-life punter won't pay bill? Classiest response *EVAR*! http://tinyurl.com/6cvtav
* claps hands , jumps up and down excitedly* OOOO,Goodie, a Party!! Can I come, too?!?!?!?!?!? Can I bring my new best friend, My ( putative and entirely VIRTUAL) Clerk Mr Clyde ' I Like a Bit of Aged Debt, Me'Crunchemall?!?
Fuck yea, you can bring both your friends
(apologies to George Bernard Shaw)
Oh, that is just far to beautiful. Both the original and the supplemental version.
I believe such revenge can be taken by any professional who gets fucked over by lack of payment - though I don't see accountants getting so rowdy, but I think I can manage to pull together some rather excellent drinking buddies...Tarotcub for instance can down 10 gin & sodas as if they were water.
I salute whichever firm this was and if you do find out who they are - join them!
Yea, accountants have less testosterone it's true. But as for the idea of me joining a solicitors firm - bwahahaha....
Tarotcub is but an apprentice drinker. I am available for weddings, bar mitzvahs (or are they bars mitzvah, like courts martial and brigadiers general?), and alcohol-soaked revenge.