How can these incompetent lawyers continue to practice law?
The jury also takes the measure of the defendant's unenthusiastic if not incompetent lawyer.
Cameras can similarly thwart the hijacking of justice, which is due largely to rude, indifferent or incompetent lawyers and judges.
Furthermore, he said, many of them have been badly represented by incompetent lawyers before.
Hutz is characterized as both a grossly incompetent lawyer and an unethical individual in general.
But so do the authorities who pick indifferent, sleepy, incompetent lawyers to defend men and women on matters as serious as life and death.
The center does what it can to help poor defendants, and much of its work is trying to repair the damage done by incompetent lawyers at trial.
In many states, indigent defendants receive incompetent lawyers at trial and little help on appeal.
He's complaining that the defendants were appointed incompetent lawyers?
"There's a vast iceberg of incompetent lawyers who don't fall within that screen."