Don't hate, hater.

In Boston Legal ("Tortured Souls" Season 1), there is a moment, when William Shatner, as Denny Crane, is trying to convince his colleague to take a especially despicable client where he delivers this line:

Alan, c’mon, we hate all our clients. It’s good to hate, allows us to overcharge and still sleep at night  

Do lawyers hate their clients?

A client can really get in the way of doing the legal work. I mean, we lawyes go to law school to argue in court, conduct trials, and write briefs. And that is hard to do when the pesky client keeps calling and interrupting us to ask, "Have you heard anything yet?"

The mistake here is that the legal stuff is not the real work, especially in Family Law. The work is the relationships we build with the people who come to us with their concerns and their trust.

I don't hate my clients - they are the people who make what I do in this profession meaningful.