I know, I know, many of you will probably find the title of this post redundant, but I’ve known at least one really fine lawyer in my day.  Maybe one and a half.  Anyway, here’s a post on bookofjoe about a cease and desist letter he, Joe, received from a lawyer who was supposedly defending the patent of one of her clients.  In the letter she insists that bookofjoe immediately stop manufacturing or selling the product pictured to the left.  Small problem:  Joe didn’t manufacture or sell the vase, he simply wrote about it. 

Maybe ten seconds of due-diligence by the attorney or one of her paralegals would have prevented this waste of time. But wait, maybe that’s the point.  Ten seconds of due-diligence doesn’t rack up the billable hours that penning a carefully crafted cease and desist form letter does.  Ironically the ten seconds of due-diligence might have actually led to more billable hours since Joe conveniently supplied a link to the seller of the patent-offending device. 

Ah, lawyers.