Face the facts and shove your participation trophy up your backside: only 1% can be better than 99%, only 5% can be better than 95%, only 10% can be better than 90%. The difference between the top 20% and bottom 80% is merely effort, and like 80% of people, Les simply doesn't have the talent, motiv...ation, nor confidence to be in the top 50%, but, again, like most, he's become pretty good at blowing smoke up your backside while doing nothing for months while making excuses for his lack of talent and effort; hence why he's now an assistant district attorney instead of a quality criminal defense lawyer; the system and the majority's uneducated opinion basically states, "guilty until proven innocent," and presumes that if a cop arrests you, you're guilty, so does Les (because he has family in law enforcement). Les did nothing on my case for months. Literally nothing while largely blaming prosecutors for his failures to perform, then he became one. Be careful around Eau Claire, it's small enough that everyone in or around law enforcement constitutes a good ole' boys club. It's the kind of region where mediocrity settles down to raise their kids, everyone knows everyone, and the legal system in the area is basically a buddy system where cops, prosecutors, and defense attorneys eat Christmas ham together and discuss who to hang in court. The Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin is secretly America's fascist police State test site, and every bad cop and bad attorney is all for it.