Yes this! People don't get this at all. I have a friend who married into money. Pretty big money. He threw 3 tickets out a window at a cop. Ended up costing him a pretty decent amount around 1500 dollars for a lawyer who got rid of all of them. To him it was chump change.
Now the guy that hauls trash for me from work sites and does some concrete work. He got a bullshit ticket maybe going 10 mph over on a clear day no danger to himself or anyone this is an older man.
That ticket had him borderline crying because he lived right on the edge of his bills being paid. So he had to make some hard choices what bills to pay go borrow money and on and on. Could have been the thing that pushed him over the edge
I'm shocked a lawyer did anything for 1500 dollars. Most have a 5000 dollar minimum, has been my experience. And, no, you don't get that back if they don't have to do much work, has been my experience.
I don't really blame the lawyers. They are running a business. It's hard to get a lot of jobs done that are worth less than a few thousand dollars, unless you use a big company that's making money on volume, paying some guy 20 bucks an hour to do the work and charging you 200.
I think they had a family lawyer who was ready to go anytime. I think the family he married into had over 300 million. I know they had a 3.4 million dollar boat at one point with a crew. So maybe lawyer was more or he was just doing as part of his other duties
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