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[quote=Anonymous][quote]There is a big difference between being active duty and deployed and choosing a work schedule/date that you know will upset your child on their special day. If you cannot be available to your child a few days a year you should not be having kids. This isn't a field trip, this isn't 100 day of school. This is one day a year, their birthday. More than likely parents like that don't spend much time with their kids and their kids are just there for status.

you don't understand trials - that's ok.

Yes, I do through my employment and I had two parents as lawyers. The post clearly said she could have an opinion on the day and she deliberately choose that day.

she clearly states that picking the birthday was a big strategic advantage. Not picking that day would have been a huge fail for her client, who was likely facing life in jail or the death penalty. So no, you do not understand.[/quote]

I think the rights and wrongs of it depend.  I do plaintiff's employment law work.  Many of my clients have been retaliated or discriminated against by employers.  It is serious and important work, and although no one's life is on the line, their career often is.  However, if I decline a case due to a scheduling conflict, if the case is good, there are [quote]tons[/quote] of other competent plaintiff's attorneys who will happily take the case.  I don't know that it works the same way in criminal defense work.

I would not accept a case if it caused a conflict with my child's birthday party, given the type of law that I practice and the fact that someone else will help the person seeking my representation.  But if the situation in criminal law is that someone's life was on the line and they had no one else to take a case, I would likely make a different choice.[/quote]

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