I’ve been working on a writing project—with any luck it will be my next book—that has a wide variety of characters. Several are professionals, you know, the kind of people who have clients instead of customers. Anyway, it got me thinking about when I worked as a consultant and some of the things people might not consider when they think of those professions.
Two years ago, I shared two funny stories (first, second) about a lawyer I worked with during that time. Don W, a.k.a. DW2 was defending a client of the accounting firm that I worked for. I was brought in as an “expert witness” (sounds way better than it really is).
The client was located near Orlando, Florida. I lived in Hartford, Connecticut, but I traveled extensively to Orlando that year. I had to conduct tests on a specific mini-computer that was set up in the client’s facility. The lawyer worked in Lexington, Kentucky but he would travel to Orlando when I was there to discuss my findings. We stayed in the same hotel, and we usually had dinner together. Of course everything was expensed back to our client.
One night, after dinner, we sat at our table, finishing a bottle of wine, and Don looked over at me and asked:
“Which one of us is going to treat the other with our mutual client’s money?”
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