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CHAPTER 12

Share Stories (They’re Your Social Currency!)

Matthew Weiss, founder and CEO of New York traffic-ticket-fighting law firm 888-RED-LIGHT, told me the following story:

       I had a client—let’s call him Jack, as in Jack Rabbit—who was charged with going 140 miles per hour in a 55 zone on the Ocean Parkway near Long Beach, New York. He was driving a Porsche Turbo Carrera late at night when he was pulled over by a Nassau County Highway Patrol Officer.

           When we first discussed the case, I told him to bring his toothbrush with him to court. He asked why, and I explained that he could be checking in to the Nassau County Correctional ...

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