99 Legal Tips

Attorney L Scott Briscoe, ESQ. brings his 25 years of court-appointed legal experience to this humorous book of 99 Legal Tips. He has witnessed unbelievable blunders by clients and shares them in this book in hopes no one else ever makes the same mistakes! These are not fictitious tales, they actually happened in court.

Such as... DO NOT violate your probation THE NIGHT BEFORE your hearing wherein you're asking to be released early from probation.

When selecting your alibi witness, do not choose one who was already in jail while you were "not" committing your own crime.

When selecting a potential buyer for the goods you stole from your boss, do not select your boss.

L. Scott Briscoe grew up in the hills of southern West Virginia, graduated from the West Virginia College of Law in 1997, and for the last twenty-five years has served on the court- appointed panel of attorneys in Boone County, West Virginia. He concentrated on serving as the guardian ad litem for children in child abuse and neglect cases and representing juvenile defendants. His passion for representing children has captured national attention as his practice has been featured in the Washington Post and the “NBC Nightly News.” Before collecting these tips here, they went viral world-wide and appeared on many popular websites, such as Bored Panda, Postize, the UK Daily Mail, and Celebrity George Takei’s page, as well as making it in print in Reader’s Digest. Scott, who was named 2020 West Virginia Public Defender of the Year, recently left the court-appointed work to go to work with his mentor, Robert Noone, concentrating solely on adoptions.