I've seen bad lawyers in action, even though they were supposed to have been the best in their particular area of practice. The documents they filed contained s

I've seen bad lawyers in action, even though they were supposed to have been the best in their particular area of practice. The documents they filed contained spelling, grammatical, and factual errors; they were poorly (or not fully enough) researched; and in one case, the defense nearly made the prosecution's case for them. Amazingly, the prosecution submitted to a plea agreement anyway. It took me a while to figure out why, but I think now it was purely because they were already overloaded with other cases and didn't feel like fighting it out.