"Why you should hire me..."
"When you hire me, I am on the case. When you hire me you get individual attention. When you hire me, I return your calls and address your concerns. When you hire me I represent you as a human being, not a case file or docket number. You won't get that kind of treatment from many lawyers, and certainly not a public defender."
Update: the private attorney who posted these words has commented below and revised his original sales pitch here.
6 Comments:
Someone should tell him that "real" attorneys don't advertise on blogger.
Go to heck, Pat Riggs.
And that's all I have to say about that.
I love it when you bring things like this to my attention. : )
Thanks for the criticism. I was a deputy public defender for most of my legal life. I was trained and worked for the San Diego County Public Defender, one on the most progressive offices in the country.
I sacrificed my time for my clients for many years. Based on your comments I changed my post.
My experience has been that most PD's are dead wood or if they have the talent they are overworked.
My question to you is, if your profile picture is accurate, why do you parade around in a black robe?
Next time you have a beef with my blog give me a call on the phone, and lets talk, rather than linking me to the Simpsons. Seems a little cowardly to me.
The Simpson's link was appropriate: Riggs is a cartoon character happy to ignorantly slander thousands of lawyers, many of whom choose to work as public defenders as a public service. So when Riggs worked at the SDCPD, was he deadwood or merely overworked? And, perhaps, Riggs might have some familiarity with Judge Skelly Wright, whom our honorable blogmeister honors himself. It was indeed a good thing for Mr. Riggs to modify his blog. Yes, some public defenders are lazy bums. Are all private lawyers effective and courageous?
I guess he was overworked and offended.
Deal reached in sexual-harassment case
BY BRIAN HAMLIN/ BHAMLIN@THEREPORTER.COM
Posted: 03/18/2009 01:03:42 AM PDT
Solano County has reached a settlement with a trio of current and former employees who filed suit charging sexual harassment and fair employment violations in the Public Defender's Office.
Although attorneys in the case declined to discuss specifics of the out-of-court settlement, it was revealed that the three complainants in the case would receive a total of $610,000 along with other considerations.
The case was filed in Solano County Superior Court in October 2007 by former Deputy Public Defender Patrick Riggs, Conflict Defender Kathryn Barton and office supervisor Lisa Driscoll, who charged that they had been subjected to ongoing sexual harassment by another attorney in the office and that Public Defender Jeffrey Thoma had failed to adequately address the problem.
The three complained that a "consistent pattern of offensive and illegal conduct" at the Public Defender's Office created a hostile work environment for them -- a situation that eventually forced Riggs from the office.
While working for the county, Riggs charged that his complaints about the office problems were ignored and that he subsequently was assigned a disproportionately heavy workload.
Representing the county, Sacramento attorney Martha Stringer on Tuesday indicated that a reasonable settlement had been reached in the case and that Solano County admitted no liability in the matter.
"Both parties believe this settlement is a reasonable conclusion considering the factors
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involved," Stringer said, declining comment on specifics of the agreement.
Walnut Creek attorney Stan Casper, who represented the three plaintiffs, confirmed the $610,000 portion of the settlement, but also declined to discuss other aspects of the arrangement.
"Given everyone's economic hard times, we feel this will certainly begin to compensate the plaintiffs for all the difficulties they have had to go through," Casper said. "We hope that the county appreciates the situation that got us all here."
His clients, Casper said, "feel that they can now move forward with their lives."
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