Comments on: Practical Advice: Don’t Let Your Client Pay You in Guns

By: countertop

countertop — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:34:26 +0000

Of course, who is to judge the value of the guns (and in fact, did he actually PAY his lawyer with his gun collection or simply give it to him for safe keeping??).

Frankly, I’d love for a client to pay me in firearms. These days, their value – provided they are in decent shape – is probably more secure than even cold hard cash. Plus, they are as easy to move and convert to cash as any other commodity (much easier than land, or art).

And, a halfway decent gun collection put together over the course of a lifetime of gun show shopping can easily top 100 – 200k in value if not more.

By: SayUncle » Guns at the court

SayUncle » Guns at the court — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:10:45 +0000

[...] Hoffman implies the alleged crime gun was among them. I’m pretty sure that gun is in police custody [...]

By: Bridget Crawford

Bridget Crawford — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:05:20 +0000

Seems to me there’s a great tax issue here, too. Did the attorney who received the guns as compensation report their value as income? If not, hello IRS and hello state ethics board!

By: Dave Hoffman

Dave Hoffman — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:17:23 +0000

Seth,
That’s true!

Doubly good reason not to accept it as payment.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:55:41 +0000

Wait a minute – “take the instruments of the crime”? Wouldn’t that particular gun have been in police custody already, as evidence? I don’t think the alleged murder weapon would have been included in the transaction.